Students Book

You’re both bein a pain
8 Read and listen
a
CD1 T15 What are Nick and Amy fighting
about? What do Lily and Jack think about it?
Read, listen and check your ideas.
Amy: Hi, Nick.
Nick: Hi, Amy. Amy, is this your backpack on the
floor?
Amy: That’s right.
Nick: Well, could you perhaps put it somewhere
else? It’s kind of in the way.
Amy: No, it’s not. It’s where I always leave it.
Nick: Yes, I know you always leave it there. And it’s
always in the way. This is a pretty small place,
Amy. So perhaps just for once you could put your
backpack somewhere where it isn’t in the way,
hmm?
Amy: You don’t own this place, Nick. So don’t try
and tell me what to do. I came in early to get
some things done. I put my backpack on the floor.
You deal with it!
Nick: Well, if you won’t move it, perhaps you won’t
mind if I do.
Amy: Hey, put that down. It’s mine, not yours. Let go!
Nick: No chance! It’s in the way!
Jack: Morning. Whoa! What’s going on?
Lily: Hey. Mind out! You nearly hit me with that
thing.
Amy: Ah, sorry. I’m sorry. This is ridiculous.
Lily: But I don’t understand. What are you arguing
about?
Amy: Oh, Nick was being impossible, as usual.
Nick: Hey, don’t look at me. It isn’t me who leaves
things lying around all over the place.
Amy: I’ve got a lot of things to do, Nick. I’m
feeling stressed and I can do without you
finding fault with everything.
Jack: Well, it really doesn’t matter who
started it or whatever – we’ve got to
sort this out. There isn’t a lot of room
here and there are four of us that have
to share it. So we need a bit of give-andtake.
I’d have thought we could do that.
Lily: Jack’s right. I thought we were all
friends, doing things together.
Amy: We are.
Nick: We are.
Jack: And we’ve all got pressure too –
schoolwork, the radio programmes, and
so on. What’s going to happen if we let
little things get on our nerves all the
time?
Nick: Well, Amy’s so careless.
Amy: And you’re so pushy.
Lily: And you’re both being a pain. I’m off
to class. Have a nice day, everyone!
Jack: See you guys. Sort it out, OK?
2
b Read the text again. Mark the sentences T (true)
or F (false).
1 This is the first time that Amy has left her
backpack on the floor.
2 Nick starts to move the backpack himself.
3 Nick thinks that Amy is the cause of the
argument.
4 Jack thinks they shouldn’t argue about
little things.
5 Jack wants Nick and Amy to sort out
the things in the backpack.
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UNIT 2