Exercise 3. Match the word or phrase from 1–8 with the synonym from a–h.

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Verb

Noun

laugh

manage

save

Adjective

Adverb

loud

necessary

terrible

Exercise 3. Match the word or phrase from 1–8 with the synonym from a–h.

1. to lift

2. quiet

3. to disbelieve

4. awfully

5. unpleasant

6. to do

7. nervous

8. unhappy

a. upset

b. to raise

c. worried

d. to perform

e. painful

f. to doubt

g. calm

h. terribly

Exercise 4. Match the word from 1–5 with its definition from a–e.

1. note

2. career

3. to doubt

4. salary

5. savings

a. the money that someone is paid each month by their employer

b. not to feel sure

c. the money that you have saved

d. the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life

e. a piece of paper money

Exercise 5. Fill in the gaps using one of the following words or phrases in the correct form.

account / career / loudly / upset / roof / terribly / savings

1. When I saw him he looked very                .

2. She lives in a small cottage with a red                .

3. When we went out it was                 cold.

4. She kept all her                  in a bank.

5. I want to open an                 in your bank.

6. I couldn’t hear anything because the music was playing              .

7. She had a long and successful                 in Hollywood.

Exercise 6. Use the following phrases  in sentences of your own.

to open a bank account, to see the manager alone, a calm serious man, to doubt something, to look worried, to say loudly, to push something to somebody, a pale face, a painful question, to perform an operation, to close the door behind somebody, to hear a sound of laughter, to keep one’s money in a sock

Exercise 8. Read the text.

My Financial Career

(after Stephen Leacock)

My salary had been raised to fifty dollars a month and I felt that the bank was the only place for it. So I walked in and looked round at the clerks. I had an idea that a person who was about¹ to open an account must necessarily speak to the manager.

“Can I see the manager?” I asked the clerk and added “alone.” I don’t know why I said “alone”.

“Certainly,” said the clerk, and brought him.

The manager was a calm, serious man. While talking to him I held my fifty-six dollars in my pocket.

“Are you the manager?” I said. God knows I didn’t doubt it. “Yes,” he said.

“Can I see you,” I asked, “alone?” I didn’t want to say “alone” again, but without this word the question seemed useless.

“Come in here,” he said, and led the way to a private room. “We’re safe from interruption here²,” he said. “Sit down.”

We both sat down and looked at each other. I found no voice to speak³. “You’re one of Pinkerton’s detectives⁴, I suppose,” he said.

The expression in my eyes had made him think that I was a detective, and he looked worried.

“To speak the truth⁵,” I began. “I’m not a detective at all. I’ve come to open an account. I intend to keep all my money in this bank.”

The manager looked serious, he felt sure now that I was a very rich man, probably a son of Baron Rothschild⁶.

“A large account, I suppose,” he said.

“Rather a large one,” I whispered. “I intend to place in this bank the sum of fifty-six dollars now, and fifty dollars a month regularly.”

The manager got up and opened the door. He called out to the clerk.

“Mr Montgomery,” he said loudly, “this gentleman is opening an account.

He will place fifty-six dollars in it. Good morning.”

“Good morning,” I said, standing up, and walked through a big door into a safe.

“Come out,” said the manager coldly and showed me the other way.

I went up to the clerk and pushed the money to him. My face was terribly pale.

“Here,” I said, “put it on my account.” The sound of my voice seemed to mean,⁷ “Let’s do this painful thing while we feel that we want to do it.”

When the operation had been performed, I remembered that I hadn’t left any money for present use. My idea was to draw out⁸ six dollars. Someone gave me a chequebook and someone else began telling me how to write it out. The people in the bank seemed to think that I was a man who owned millions of dollars, but was not feeling very well. I wrote something on the cheque and pushed it towards the clerk. He looked at it.

“What, are you drawing it all out again?” he asked in surprise.

Then I realized that I had written fifty-six dollars instead of six. I was too upset to think clearly now. I had a feeling that it was impossible to explain the thing. All the clerks stopped writing to look at me. One of them prepared to pay the money.

“How will you have it?”⁹ he said. “What?”

“How will you have it?”

“Oh,” I caught his meaning and answered without even trying to think, – “in fifty-dollar notes.” He gave me a fifty-dollar note.

“And the six?” he asked coldly. “In six-dollar notes”, I said.

He gave me six dollars, and I ran out. As the big door closed behind me, I heard a sound of laughter that went up to the roof of the bank. Since then I use a bank no more. I keep my money in my pocket and my savings in silver dollars in a sock.

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