Advanced English Conversations - Robert Allans, Ahmet Mustafaoglu, Metin Emir 2019

Set (9) - Determination pays off

Dialogue

Bill: Sally is dropping out of school. She’s getting married in two weeks.

Mike: She’s a nitwit if she thinks that marriage is a picnic. That’s no joke.

Bill: But, her husband is a business tycoon. He’s going to back her up for good.

Mike: Well, I have to change my mind. It makes sense to take shortcuts to success in this tough and rough world.

Bill: I remember when she said that she would make her dreams come true one way or another.

Mike: I must admit that determination pays off!

Vocabulary

Drop out of: to abandon a course of study.

Nitwit: (adj) idiot.

A picnic: a pleasant and easy activity.

No joke: a difficult or serious matter:

Tycoon: a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry.

Back someone up: to support

For good: permanently; forever.

Change one’s mind: to adopt a different opinion or plan.

Make sense: be intelligible, justifiable, or practicable.

Take shortcuts: a method or means of doing something more directly and quickly than and often not so thoroughly as by ordinary procedure.

One way or another: in any way that is possible

Pay off: to yield good results; succeed.

Exercise;

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate expressions;

drop out of

nitwit

picnic

no joke

tycoon

back someone up

for good

change one’s mind

make sense

take shortcuts

one way or another

pay off

a. I never liked mushrooms before, but you really .......... with.................. this dish.

b. It's .......... when your brakes fail on the motorway.

c. I have hopes that my perseverance will .......... one day.

d. After she found out about his latest relapse with drugs, she decided it was best to leave him ..........

e. Early pacemakers often .......... a race before the finish.

f. After all, he became a .......... as well as a doctor; he must be rolling in money.

g. I've tried asking him but his explanations aren't ..........

h. That job was no .......... . They gave us a hard time indeed.

i. Don't be a .......... —wear a seat belt!

j. We'll get out of this mess ..........

k. Mistakes were made because too many .......... were ..........

l. My family .......... in my fight for compensation.