4 That’s Life!

Episode 1
Check your answers

1 Read the complete story and check your answers.

2 Can you remember the everyday expressions in this
episode? Underline them.
3 Look again at the box on page 4 of your Student’s Book
to check.

1 Thursday morning …

Ryan Hi, Lucy. How are you?

Lucy Oh, hi, Ryan. I’m OK, but I’m glad it’s nearly Friday.
Ryan Are you doing anything at the weekend?
Hi. My name’s Cindy Gaskell. My husband Ryan and I own Lucy Yes. Jordan and I are visiting my parents. They moved
this Internet café – The Coffee Shop. I’m British, but down to the south coast a couple of months ago.
Ryan’s Irish. We’ve got two children – Melanie and Russell. They’ve got a lovely house by the sea.
Melanie’s a student at Manchester University and Russell Ryan That sounds nice.
works in Spain for a holiday company. That’s Ryan over Lucy We wanted to go last Saturday, but Jordan was on
there – the man with the beard. He’s talking to Jordan emergency call, so we’re definitely doing it this
Morris. Jordan’s Australian and he’s a computer engineer. weekend.
He fixes our computers, but he isn’t doing that now. He’s
waiting for his girlfriend, Lucy Patterson. Actually, Jordan 2 Thursday afternoon …
really wants to be an actor. He was in a TV advert last year. Jordan Morris? Look,
we’re filming an advert
this weekend and one of
the actors is ill. Are you
available?

Here’s Lucy now with Sarah Chen and Peter Columbo. Lucy’s
the woman wearing a skirt. She’s British and she works for
an advertising agency. She’s a personal assistant, but she
doesn’t like her boss, Olive Green. Sarah’s a postgraduate
student at London University. She’s from Singapore. Peter’s
from the USA. He works for a magazine company. Peter and
Sarah are getting married soon.

Now ...
✓ listen and practise saying the story.