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1. all steamed up: to be angry or worried
2. burn the midnight oil: to work late at night
3. burn the candles at both ends: to work too hard without enough rest
4. burn out: to lose one’s interest or desire, often due to overuse
5. get wind of: to discover or find out
6. hot air: meaningless or unimportant things
a) People who_________often have accidents because they are tired.
b) The presenter promised his workshop would be very informative and exciting, but I left because he was full of________
c) After the 2004 season, Nick Jordan was________ on basketball. He wanted to play baseball instead.
d) Once the students________ free light drinks, there was a line at the restaurant.
e) Don’t get_______and start an argument.
f) Because she had a term paper due to the next morning, Mary was_______ to finish it on time.
4.2.16 Number the lines of the dialogue in the correct order. Then try to reproduce it.
- 1) Hello, glad to meet you, Alex, haven’t seen you for ages, since we graduated from the University.
- Oh, your work is very important nowadays. Mankind needs energy for producing light, heat and transportation.
- Sure, that’s so. And as the population grows, so does the demand for better quality of life. Energy consumption increases daily.
- Well, let’s go to the seminar and listen to the presenter speaking aboutalternatives to non-renewable fossil fuels.
- Really? As for me, I am with Bell Telephone Company. It is a global leader in electrical engineering. And I deal with new technologies.
- How do you do, Denis, I haven’t expected to meet you here. Are you also going to attend this seminar?
- Certainly, as you know, I’m interested in energy problems and the speaker will just speak about it. By the way I work at this University.
- But with the threat to clean air and pure water increases too. These natural resources are not unlimited.
- Yes, that’s why we should develop new systems to conserve energy and find alternative sources of energy.
- OK. Let’s go. I want to know much about it.
4.2.17 Make a presentation on “Renewable sources of energy”.
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