Unit 4: A good story

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PL
Aktorstwo, gra
Świetny występ
Spotkać się z krytyką
Osadzony w przyszłości
Gorączkowa akcja w filmie
Fabuła
Fabuła skupia się na buncie.
Obsada
pociski
Przedstawiać (o filmie)
Duża różnorodność kung fu
film z kowbojami
EN
Acting
His acting was top-notch.
A terrific performance
Come under strong criticism
The director of the film came under strong
criticism in the magazine The Times.
Set in the future
frenetic action in a film
Plot
The plot focuses on a revolt.
Cast
Bullets
Feature
The film features a surprisingly competent
performance from Brad Pitt.
A big variety of kung fu techniques.
western
Not surprisingly, many people like to watch
this movie over and over again.

Vocabulary 1: Films

Word formation:
Adjectives ending in -ing
and -ed
VER NOUN ADJECTI ADJECTI
B VE VE
WITH -ED WITH -ING
ANNOY ANNOYANCE ANNOYED ANNOYING
He looked down I was annoyed with my My brother can be really
at her with brother. annoying.
annoyance.

I felt annoyance
at having do it.
FRUSTRAT FRUSTRATION FRUSTRATED FRUSTRATING
E I understand She is frustrated with her The lack of my favourite
your frustration, marriage Lotus Biscoff cookies is
sir. frustrating for me.
TIRE TIREDNESS TIRED TIRING
He tires I can see
easily. tiredness on your
face.
DISAPPOI DISAPPOINTM DISAPPOINTED DISAPPOINTING
NT ENT
To my
disappointment
he decided to
leave.
DISGUST DISGUST DISGUSTED DISGUSTING
(obrzydzać) (niesmak, wstręt
It disgusts obrzydzenie)
me when He looked at me
people spit with disgust.
on the floor
ASTONISH ASTONISHMEN ASTONISHED ASTONISHING
(zdziwiać T (zdziwienie)
kogoś) To my
astonishment he
passed the exam.
TERRIFY - TERRIFIED TERRIFYING
I’m terrified of spiders. It was a terrifying
experience for me.
AMUSE AMUSEMENT AMUSED AMUSING
(zabawić (rozbawienie,
kogoś) wesołość)
My mommy The amusement
tries to park was only
amuse me opened for a few
by telling days.
jokes. I saw amusement
in her eyes.
FASCINAT FASCINATION FASCINATED FASCINATING
E
The books
about
dragons
fascinate
me.
BORE BOREDOM BORED BORING
You bored I’m dying of
 Vocabulary 2: Take
A. Phrasal verbs with take
phrasal verb example translation
take after SOMEBODY Who do you take after in być podobnym do kogoś
resemble appearance? być uderzająco podobnym do
be similar to SOMEBODY KOGOŚ
bear a striking resemblance to
SOMEBODY

take up SOMETHING She took up dancing at the podjąć się czegoś

start doing age of eight.
take to SOMETHING I took to foreign languages polubić COŚ
start to like a year ago.
take on SOMEBODY I don’t know German zatrudnić KOGOŚ
employ well, so they haven’t taken
me on.
take SOMEONE aside My teacher took me aside wziąć kogoś na bok
move away from other people to to talk about my
talk achievements.
take off My song took off and was odnieść nagły sukces
start to become successful In the charts for many
years.
take over SOMETHING Michael took over the zdobyć
gain control company after his father’s przejąć
death. zawładnąć
step down His stepped down and my ustępować (ze stanowiska)
resign friend took over his
position.
take in SOMETHING She couldn’t take in the przyjąć jako prawdę
accept as true fact that she hadn’t come zrozumieć
understand first. oszukać KOGOŚ
fool SOMEBODY
She couldn’t take in his
plan.

Don’t be taken in by his

welcome grin… (crocodile
song)
 B. Expressions with take

PL EN
zlitować się nad KIMŚ take pity on SOMEBODY
brać winę za coś take the blame for SOMETHING
przypisywać SOBIE zasługę take credit for SOMETHING
wymagać dużo odwagi take a great deal of courage
interesować się CZYMŚ take interest in SOMEBODY
szczycić się CZYMŚ take pride in SOMEBODY
śmiać się z żartu o sobie, nie obrazić się o żart take a joke