Learn English with Men in Black

• ☐ ☐ ☐ NYPD [n] - New York Police Department
• ☐ ☐ ☐ knock down [phv] - push to the ground
• ☐ ☐ ☐ punk ass [n] - bad guy
• ☐ ☐ ☐ arrest [v] - capture by police [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ catch a beat down [exp] - get beat up or hurt in a fight
• ☐ ☐ ☐ piss (someone) off [phv] - make (someone) angry
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a ledge [n] - the edge of a building [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a perpetrator [n] - a criminal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ blink [v] - close both eyes
• ☐ ☐ ☐ eyelids [n] - the skin covering your eyes
• ☐ ☐ ☐ high beams [n] - the bright headlights on a car
• ☐ ☐ ☐ low beams [n] - the normal headlights on a car
• ☐ ☐ ☐ draw a weapon [exp] - take out and hold a weapon
• ☐ ☐ ☐ claim [v] - say something (that other people do not believe)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ evaporate [v] - disappear
• ☐ ☐ ☐ soggy [adj] - wet and soft
• ☐ ☐ ☐ mid-section [n] - stomach, belly [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ soggy around the mid-section [exp] - fat
• ☐ ☐ ☐ pudgy [adj] - fat
• ☐ ☐ ☐ keep up [phv] - run as fast as
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a medical examiner [n] - a person who examines dead bodies (a coroner)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a coroner [n] - a person who examines dead bodies (a medical examiner)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a morgue [n] - a government building where dead bodies are kept [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ be up in my face [exp] - be rude and aggressive
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a Stairmaster [n] - an exercise machine [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a John Doe [n] - an unidentified dead body
• ☐ ☐ ☐ gills [n] - the things fish use to breath [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ be out of breath [exp] - breathing heavily after running
• ☐ ☐ ☐ run someone down on foot [exp] - catch someone by running
• ☐ ☐ ☐ tough [adj] - difficult

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb, [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

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Edwards	Kay	Laurel Weaver

• Edwards is a police officer.
• He is chasing a man through the streets of New York.
• The man that Edwards is chasing is actually an alien.
• Laurel Weaver is a coroner - she examines dead bodies.
• Kay works for Men in Black - a government organization that monitors alien activity on Earth.

1. Edwards works for the New York Police Department.
   True
   False
   
   
2. The man (alien) is scared of Edwards.
   True
   False
   
   
3. The man (alien) failed at some task.
   True
   False
   
   
4. The man (alien) says the world is going to end.
   True
   False
   
   
5. Edwards threw the man (alien) off the roof.
   True
   False
   
   
6. Edwards says the man (alien) has three sets of eyelids.
   True
   False
   
   
7. The police chief (Edwards' boss) believes Edwards' story about the man (alien).
   True
   False
   
   
8. The other police officer agrees with Edwards' story.
   True
   False
   
   
9. Edwards calls the other police officer fat.
   True
   False
   
   
10. Laurel Weaver, the coroner, believes Edwards' story.
    True
    False
    
    
11. Kay says the man (alien) was breathing through his eyes.
    True
    False
    
    
12. Kay is interested in the weapon that Edwards described.
    True
    False
    
    
13. Edwards says that he can't go with Kay because he has too much paperwork to do.
    True
    False
    
    
14. Edwards can't go with Kay because he has too much paperwork to do.
    True
    False
    
    

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Directions: 1) Put the events in the correct order. Choose ONE word to complete each sentence.

   

away    climbs    down    roof    under

• 1-5 1 2 3 4 5 (5)   Edwards enters the museum and runs up to the roof (top) of the building.
  
  
• 1-5 1 2 3 4 5 (1)   Edwards runs down the man.
  
  
• 1-5 1 2 3 4 5 (2)   Edwards tells the man he is under arrest.
  
  
• 1-5 1 2 3 4 5 (4)   The man climbs (scales) up the wall of the Guggenheim Museum.
  
  
• 1-5 1 2 3 4 5 (3)   The man escapes from Edwards and runs away from him.

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about    calls    end    off    pairs

• 6-10 6 7 8 9 10 (7)   The man blinks two pairs (sets) of eyelids.
  
  
• 6-10 6 7 8 9 10 (8)   The man jumps off the building.
  
  
• 6-10 6 7 8 9 10 (6)   The man tells Edwards that world is going to end.
  
  
• 6-10 6 7 8 9 10 (10)   Edwards calls the other police officer fat.
  
  
• 6-10 6 7 8 9 10 (9)   The police chief asks Edwards about the situation.

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about    coroner    coroner    gills    leave

• 11-15 11 12 13 14 15 (15)   Kay and Edwards leave the room together.
  
  
• 11-15 11-15 11 12 13 14 15 (14)   Kay asks Edwards about the gun.
  
  
• 11-15 11 12 13 14 15 (12)   Kay flashes the coroner (examiner) with a red light.
  
  
• 11-15 11 12 13 14 15 (13)   Kay tells Edwards that the man's eyelids were actually gills.
  
  
• 11-15 11 12 13 14 15 (11)   The coroner (examiner) tells Edwards that she believes Edwards.

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1. If you were Edwards' chief (boss), how would you react to Edwards' story?
2. What do you think the red light does?
3. Do you think police officers should be required to stay in good shape (thin, fast, strong)? Why?
4. What other jobs should be required to stay in good shape?
5. How do you usually feel when you see a police officer - safe, scared, nervous? Why?