Landmark Advanced Unit 4
Choose one of the situations below and tell a personal anecdote about it. After you finish, your partner will guess whether your story is true or made up.
| An accident on my bike or a near miss | Déjà vu | A rude gesture |
| A (virtually) deserted place | A sixth sense | A car accident or near miss |
| An unnecessary worry | Road rage | The last train/ The second to last train |
| Abuse/ Insults | Intuition | Beat up/ Knock someone’s head off |
| Motorway | Putting something off | Swerve |
| A mental list | Asking for a ciggie/ a fag | An onerous task |
| A call of nature/ Taking a leak/ | Headhunting | Being kicked out |
| Between jobs | Economical with the truth | A drink problem |
| Hard-up | A hanky | A sarny |
| Specs | A woolly | The zapper |
| Feeling peckish | Feeling parched | Feeling gutted |
| Feeling shattered | Tipsy/ Sozzled | The powder room/ smallest room/ WC |
| Come up for a coffee | A lady of the night/ A prozzie | Fall off the back of a lorry |
| A bun in the oven | Weed/ Black/ Maria/ Grass | Breaking wind/ A blow off/ A bottom burp |
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Useful language You’ve got a real poker face!/ You’re a great liar/ You had me (totally) fooled I thought so I knew that you were lying/ making it up because… I guess that it’s (pure) imagination I’m not sure, but I’d say that it’s true That seems believable I’ve got an interesting story about… Something happened to me (the other day) connected to… |
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