Номер 2, страница 241 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Лапицкая, Демченко

2. Listen and read the extract. Can you guess what kind of trouble Sam gets into?

Good stuff had been happening for about six months.

• For example: Mum got rid of Steve, her rubbish boy-friend.

• For example: Mrs Gillett, my Art and Design teacher, took me to one side after a lesson and asked whether I'd thought of doing art at college.

• For example: I'd learned two new skating tricks, suddenly, after weeks of making an idiot of myself in public. (From now on skating = skateboarding.) All that, and I'd met Alicia too.

Looking at what I just wrote, you could have guessed a lot about me. You could have guessed that my mum and dad don't live together, for a start. You could have guessed that I skate, and you could have guessed that my best subject at school was Art and Design. And you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that Alicia was a girl who meant something to me. If you were able to guess it all from that first little paragraph, I'd start to worry that I wasn't an incredibly complicated and interesting person, ha ha.

I don't know. As far as people like Alicia's parents are concerned, you're a bad person if you don't read and study, and as far as people like my dad are concerned, you're a bad person if you do. It's all mad, isn't it? It's not reading and whatever that makes you good or bad. It's whether you get addicted to drugs and go out mugging. I don't know why they all get themselves into such a stew.

Well, here's the thing. I know it sounds stupid, and I'm not the sort of person usually, honest. I mean, I don't believe in ghosts or reincarnation or any weird stuff at all. But this, it was just something that started happening, and... Anyway. I'll just say it, and you can think what you want.

I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back.

Some of you won't have heard of Tony Hawk. Well, I have to say that not knowing Tony Hawk is like not knowing Robbie Williams, or maybe even Tony Blair. It's worse than that, if you think about it. Because there are loads of politicians, and loads of singers, hundreds of TV programmes. George Bush is probably even more famous than Tony Blair and Britney Spears or Kylie are as famous as Robbie Williams. But there's only one skater, really, and his name's Tony Hawk. Well, there's not only one. But he's definitely the Big One. He's the J.K. Rowling of skaters, the Big Mac, the iPod, the Xbox. The only excuse I'll accept for not knowing TH is that you're not interested in skating.

When I got into skating, my mum bought me a Tony Hawk poster off the Internet. It's the coolest present I've ever had, and it wasn't even the most expensive. And it went straight up onto my bedroom wall, and I just got into the habit of telling it things. At first, I only told Tony about skating – I'd talk about the problems I was having, or the tricks I'd learned. I knew they would mean much more to a picture of Tony Hawk than they would to a real-life Mum. I'm not dissing my mum, but she hasn't got a clue, really. So when I told her about things like that, she'd try to look all enthusiastic, but there was nothing really going on in her eyes. She was all, Oh, that's great. But if I'd asked her what this or that trick was, she wouldn't have been able to tell me. So what was the point? Tony knew. Maybe that was why my mum bought me the poster, so that I'd have somebody else to talk to.

After a while, I started talking to Tony Hawk about school, Mum, Alicia, whatever, and I found that he had something to say about those things too.

Does this sound mad to you? It probably does, but I don't care, really. Who doesn't talk to someone in their heads? Who doesn't talk to God, or a pet, or someone they love who has died, or maybe just to themselves? TH... he wasn't me. But he was who I wanted to be, so that makes him the best version of myself, and that can't be a bad thing to have the best version of yourself standing there on a bedroom wall and watching you. It makes you feel as though you mustn't let yourself down.

2. Прослушайте и прочитайте отрывок. Можете ли вы догадаться, в какие неприятности попадает Сэм?

Ответ:

The title of the book, Slam, is a clue. It can be a slang term for getting someone pregnant. Given that Sam has just met a girl, Alicia, it is highly likely that the "trouble" he gets into is an unplanned teenage pregnancy.

Перевод:

Название книги, Slam (Удар), является подсказкой. Это может быть сленговым выражением, означающим, что девушка забеременела. Учитывая, что Сэм только что встретил девушку, Алисию, весьма вероятно, что «неприятность», в которую он попадает, — это незапланированная подростковая беременность.