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Mind Your Language

Season 1 – Episode 3
“A Fate Worse Than Death”

1. What is Danielle’s problem? What is Giovanni’s solution to the problem?

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2. Who did the homework for Giovanni?
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3. . When Miss Courtney asks about Mr. Brown, Su Lee tells her that "Mr. Brown
not alive"—what is she actually trying to say?
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4. Why is Mr. Brown late for school?
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5. Why is Ali Nadim late for school? What is his new job?
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6. How does Ali Nadim describe the underwear?
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7. What is Ranjeet’s problem? Why does he want to commit suicide?
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8. How does Ranjeet describe his fiancée when she was 20 years ago?
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9. How does Mr. Brown feel about his students’ homework? Why?
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WORDS TO KNOW!
1. landlady (noun) a woman who owns a house, flat, or room that people can
rent. A man is called a landlord.
2. alive (adjective) living not dead
→ My father died last year but my mother is still alive.
3. massage (noun) the action of pressing, squeezing, and rubbing someone’s
body in order to reduce pain in their muscle or to make them relax.
 → She gave me a foot massage.
4. presume (verb) to think that something is true because it is likely, although you
cannot be certain
→ I presume you’ve already ordered lunch.
5. find out (phrasal verb) to discover a fact of information
→ we may never find out the truth about what happened.
6. Catalyst (noun) a substance that causes a chemical reaction to happen more
quickly but is not affected itself. An enzyme is a type of catalyst.
7. Roman Catholic (noun) a member of the part of the Christian Church that
has the pope as its leader
8. detain (verb) to keep someone in a police station or prison and not allow them
to leave/ to delay someone who has to go somewhere
→ A 29-year-old man was detained for questioning.
→ Mr. Brown has been detained, so we will start the meeting without him.
9. travelling salesman (noun) someone whose job is to travel to different places
to sell goods from a particular company
10. Union Jack (noun) the national flag of the UK
11. monitor (noun) a school student who helps a teacher with a particular job
12. intelligent (adjective) 1good at thinking clearly and quickly, at understanding
difficult ideas and subjects, and at gaining and using knowledge
→ Surely an intelligent person like you can deal with this.
→ He was highly intelligent, but disliked studying.
13. alternate (noun) if someone or something alternates between two things, they
keep changing between them
→ His mood alternates between joy and despair.
14. complain (verb) to say that you are not satisfied with something
→ What’s are you complaining about?
→ He threatened to complain to the boss.
15. be up the creek (without a paddle) means to be in a difficult situation.
→ If we don’t get this contract, we’re up the creek!
16. sin (noun) an action, thought, or way of behaving that is wrong according to
religious laws
→ she had committed a sin and was ashamed to confess it.
17. Chop off (phrasal verb) to remove something by cutting, especially a part of
someone’s body.
18. sell someone a pup means to swindle someone, especially by selling them
something that is worthless
19. betrothed (noun) an old word meaning ‘the person you are engaged to’