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

Set (32) - Don’t knock yourself out

Dialogue

Linda: England had been knocked out (1) of the World Cup by West Germany.

Lucy: Really! This news will knock James out (2). He is a big fan of Germany.

Linda: I also heard that the storm knocked out (3) power supplies in many parts of the city. Two people passed away and 1o were knocked out (4).

Lucy: Don’t knock yourself out reporting such news. I’m in no mood to hear them right now. Don’t you see that you’re getting a news junkie!

Linda: It’s all because of the dead-end conditions we are going through.

Lucy: Don’t be so morbid and gloomy for Heaven’s sake! Things aren’t that bad.

Vocabulary

Knock out (1): to make someone leave a competition by defeating them.

Knock someone out (2): to impress someone.

Knock out (3): to destroy something, or to stop it working.

Knock out (4): make someone unconscious.

Knock oneself out: make a lot of efforts to do something.

Junkie: a person with a compulsive habit or obsessive dependency on something

Dead-end: (adj) permitting no opportunity for progress or advancement.

Go through: to experience; to undergo.

Morbid: (adj) showing a strong interest in subjects such as death that most people think are unpleasant.

Exercise;

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate expressions;

knock out (defeat)

knock someone out (impress)

knock out (destroy)

knock out (become unconscious)

knock oneself out

junkie

dead-end

go through

morbid

a. It’s time you quit that .......... job and find a more rewarding one.

b. The storm .......... the phones all around the country.

c. Those sleeping pills .......... me .......... for ten hours.

d. The response to my work has absolutely .......... me ..........

e. Mark my words! We’ll .......... them .......... from the first round.

f. Don’t .......... yourself .......... The battery’s dead.

g. Thomas is a computer .......... He works hours and hours nonstop!

h. My mind was filled with .......... thoughts of death.

i. He's amazingly cheerful considering all he's had to go through.