Homework/Self Study

Course Outline
I hope it will be as useful as challenging.

REM listening

You might have laughed if I had told you  
You might have (???) [hidden your frown]
You might have succeded in changing me
I might have been turned around
(x3)

The song is pervaded by a sense of melancholy and sadness. The singer knows that things might have been different if he had found the courage to say something to someone. He would have probably made a different decision.



LIMITLESS

• Watch it first without subtitles – what can you understand? Is there anything you don’t understand?
  Eddie tries for the first time the "magic" pill. He doesn' t know what the effects would be or what that pills would caused to himself, but "in the end how much worst can it get?". The pills allow him to see everything better, "he was blind but now he see". Everything happened in the past is in his own memory and that "drug" permits him to remember everything he did, saw. In a sense everything was clear. This drug was so powerful that he could do everything without any efforts.
  
  The context is clears and also dialogues. But there are some words/fast connected speech I don' t understand without subtitles/scripts.
• Watch it again with the subtitles. Was the problem due to vocabulary or fast connected speech? If you find a new word, look it up in your dictionary. If the problem was fast connected speech, listen to the phrase again and repeat it.
  
  Fast connected speech / vocabulary:
  -landlord's nasty young wife
  -bullshit
  -thoughtlessly ingested
  -listening to her rag(beffe)
  -springing into sharper focus
  -sucking defeated sack of shit sponging off your husband. You're hoping I'll blow my brains out. But my existence shouldn't make you this upset. What is it?
       To blow out: Respingere, spingere fuori, allontanare
  -into a sparkling cocktail
  -polished gem.