E. There are a few mistakes in each of the jokes. Find and correct them. The number of mistakes is given.

Mistakes)

The young man approached his sweetheart, sad and sorrowful.

She watched __him with anxious eyes, and asked:

“How did father take it?”

“All right,” he replied.

“I’m so glad,” she cried.

“Well, I can’t say that I am. At first he wouldn’t listen to me.”

“Did you tell him you had five thousand dollars saved and in the bank?”

“Yes, after all else had failed!”

“And what did father do then?”

“Do!” replied the young man. “He borrowed it!”

Mistakes)

“What made you quarrel with Conrad?”

“Well, he proposed to me again __last night.”

“Where was the harm in that?”

“My dear, I had accepted him the night before.”

Mistakes)

(Her mother) “My daughter sings, plays the piano, paints, understands botany, zoology, French, Italian – in fact is accomplished in __ every way. And you, sir?”

(Prospective son-in-law) “Well, in an emergency I suppose I could cook a little and mend the socks.”

Mistakes)

He proposed. She tossed her head haughtily. “You!” came her scornful reply. “you want to marry __ me?”

“Yes,” murmured the lover.

“But, my dear boy,” she went on, “you have only known me three days.”

“Oh, much __ longer than that really!” he said. “I’ve been two years in the bank where your father has his account.”

F. Focus on phrasal verbs. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the phrasal verbs below:

light up / stub out / cut down / give up / end up

John took a cigarette out of the packet and lit up. As he leaned against the wall and blew the smoke back out again, he thought about the fact that there seemed to be very few smokers left at the company. He'd heard all the arguments and he knew all the statistics. It wasn't that he thought the arguments against smoking were not convincing; far from it. In fact he'd actively encouraged his friends and colleagues when they told him they were going to give up. Every now and then he tried to stop too, but he never managed to do it. He would spend a number of stressful days not smoking, but then would always end up having one because of some kind of 'exceptional circumstance'. He had managed to cut down to just 5 or 6 cigarettes a day, and had persuaded himself that that was enough. He would give up one day; if his health got really bad, or if he had children, or if the government finally decided to ban it. But that day was not today. He took a deep, final drag on his cigarette, stubbed it out against the wall, and flicked it into the gutter.

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