Question

Your homework:

Use the new words, phrases and idioms to write a short paragraph (150-160
words) about a thing that you find the most annoying. Use the texts from ex. 2

as an example.
ex 2*
) It always gets on my nerves when people talk in the cinema, but you won’t believe
what has happened to me tonight! I went out to the cinema with my friends to see a
film I’ve wanted to see for ages. From the moment we sat down, a group of teenagers
behind us didn’t stop talking and laughing, and even chatting on their mobile phones.
Anyway, eventually I lost my temper. I turned around and shouted at them. Almost
immediately, an usher appeared and angrily told me to leave. My friends
were laughing their heads off afterwards, but I’m still furious. It wasn’t my fault! So
anyway, here I am back at home, letting off steam on my blog! So, what about you?
Have you suffered from people’s bad habits recently? Tell me all about it and cheer me
up!
B) Oh, that’s awful, Liam. It’s really annoying. What gets on my nerves is bad table
manners. I’ve got a really funny story about this. A few months ago, I went to a
restaurant with my family. While we were trying to decide what to order, we heard
some strange noises coming from the table behind us. It was a man slurping his soup
really loudly. When he finished, he started complaining to the waiter that his steak was
tough and the potatoes were overcooked. We felt really sorry for the waiter. The final
straw was when he sneezed loudly without covering his mouth and a piece of bread
flew out of his mouth and onto our table. I’ve never seen anything like it. Anyway,
about a week later, my dad read an article in the food section of a newspaper about
difficult customers and the way restaurants deal with th - em. At the top of the page,
there was a picture of the writer and … you guessed it. It was the man in the restaurant
with the bad manners! He was a restaurant critic.
C) Well, I have to travel on public transport every day and there are plenty of things that
annoy me. A few days ago, though, it was a boiling hot day and when my train pulled
into the station and I saw the bodies pressed against the door, my heart sank.
Everyone was pushing to get on and I found myself next to a man with terrible body
odour. He was holding onto a rail with his arm up in the air and the smell was just
terrible. Has this man never heard of a shower? Then, things got even worse. The train
broke down in a tunnel and I was stuck there for an hour. When I got off the train, I
took some huge deep breaths! I've never enjoyed the polluted air of the city so much.