Upper Intermediate

Task1/Задание 1: Listen to the story`s excerpt in the video up to 3 times/Внимательно послушайте короткий отрывок рассказа в видео до трех раз Task 2. Change the words in bold into their right forms or parts of the speech. "Now, Valentine," said the warden, "you'll go out in the morning. Brace up, and make a man of 1.yourselves. You're not a bad fellow at heart. Stop 2.crack safes, and live straight." "Me?" said Jimmy, in surprise. "Why, I never cracked a safe in my life." "Oh, no," laughed the warden. "Of course not. Let's see, now. How was it you 3.happening to get sent up on that Springfield job? Was it because you wouldn't 4...

Task1/Задание 1: Listen to the story`s excerpt in the video up to 3 times/Внимательно послушайте короткий отрывок рассказа в видео до трех раз Task 2: Fill in the gaps: A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was _____(1) _____(2) _____(3), and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his _____(4), which had been signed that morning by the _____(5). Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had _____(6) nearly ten months of a four year _____(7). He had expected to stay only about three months, at the longest. When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Valentine had is received in the "_____(8)" it is hardly worth while to cut his hair...