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Mind Your Language

Season 1 – Episode 4
“All Through the Night”

19 January 1978

1. Why are Giovanni and Max talking to Sid at the beginning of the episode?
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2. Why don’t they understand him?
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3. What is a ‘Cockney’? What do these things mean in “rhyming slang”?
Mutt and Jeff ___________________
mince pies ___________________
plates of meat ___________________
Uncle Dick ___________________
4. What is the topic of tonight’s class?
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5. What joke does Juan make about milk?
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6. What happens to the class on Friday night?

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7. What does the class pass the time?
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8. What happens to Mr. Brown and Miss Courtney at the end of the movie?
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WORDS TO KNOW!
1. Caretaker (noun) someone whose job is to look after a large building such as a
school, office building, or block of flats. The American word is janitor
2. Acquaintance (noun) someone you know a little, who is not a close friend
3. Fag (noun) a cigarette
4. Pardon (interjection) used for politely asking some to repeat something you did
not hear or did not understand.
5. Pardon me for (doing) something (phrase) used for saying ‘sorry’ for doing or
saying something that you think might offend people
 Pardon me for saying so, but isn’t he a little old for her?
6. Mishear (verb) to fail to hear someone's words correctly or in the way that was
intended and to think that something different was said
 I'm sure I never said that! You must have misheard (me).
7. Various (adj) different, and more than a few
 We had various problems on our journey, including a puncture.
8. Puncture (n) a small hole made by a sharp object, especially in a tire.
 I (my car tire) had a puncture when I was driving back from Takeo.
9. Purchase (v) to buy something
 Tickets must be purchased two weeks in advance.
10. Passer-by (noun) someone who is going past a particular place, especially when
an accident or violent event happens
 A passer-by called the police.
11. Sufficient (adjective) as much as is needed.
 They had sufficient resources to survive.
12. Strangle (verb) to kill someone by squeezing their throat so that they cannot
breathe
 She had been strangled with her own scarf and her body dumped in the woods.
13. Droll (adjective) funny.
14. Seduce (verb) to persuade someone to have sex with you
 Pete lost his virginity at 15 when he was seduced by his best friend's mother.
15. Rhyming slang (noun) a way of talking in which you replace the normal word for
something with a word or phrase that rhymes with it. Rhyming slang is used
especially by Cockneys (people for East London)