source: Sir Elton John and Sir Michael Caine appear in NHS video urging people to get vaccinated, the Telegraph

Director

Sir Elton John

Sir Michael Caine

D: Elton John audition, take one

SEJ: My name is Elton John.

D: Cut there, little 1._____ showbiz

SEJ: Elton, my name is Elton John.

D: Bit 2.______ showbiz

SEJ: My name is Elton John.

D: Let’s go for your Michael Caine impression, just let’s see what it’s 3.______

SEJ: My name is Elton John.

D: Beautiful, cut there.

SEJ: The 4. ______ people in society that get vaccinated, the 5._______ chance there is of eradicating the national Covid pandemic. It’s really 6. ______ to know that the vaccines have all been 7. ______ and met the necessary safety and quality standards.

D: So, this is the bit we’re going to have the vaccine, now Elton, so just 8. ______ of pretend that you’re having the vaccine from a nurse.

SEJ: Oh…

D: What was that, Elton?

SEJ: That was me acting !

D: Okay, let’s cut there.

SEJ: And as you can see, ‘I’m still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah’

D: Wow, okay, thanks Elton, we’ll let you know.

SEJ: Oh well, at this short notice, you won’t find anyone 9. _____.

D: Thank you.

SMC: Hello, my name is Michael Caine. I’ve just had a vaccine for Covid. It didn’t hurt, not many people know that.

D: And cut, that was marvellous, that was fantastic, thank you so much Sir Cain, let the 10. _____ fella know he didn’t get the job.

keys/megoldások: 1. less; 2. more; 3. like; 4. more; 5. more; 6. important; 7. through; 8. kind; 9. bigger; 10. little

A videó megnézése után válaszolj a következő kérdésekre az elhangzott információk alapján.

1. How much time did it take him to make the hat he showed?
2. What does he want to be in the future?
3. How does crocheting help him in his future career?
4. How does the crochet community react to his works?
5. What is his elder brother’s opinion about crocheting?

keys/megoldások: 1. 54 minutes; 2. He wants to be a surgeon.; 3. It helps him with hand dexterity; 4. Crocheters always leave encouraging comments even if they don’t like some of his works.; 5. He isn’t quite sure about it.

Where Did the Phrase “The Dog Ate My Homework” Come from?

Dogs are known as man’s best friend. Dogs keep us safe, are hard workers … and can provide a handy excuse in a pinch. Maybe that’s why versions of the classic expression the dog ate my homework have been around for hundreds of years.

Today, the dog ate my homework is used as a stock example of the kind of silly excuses schoolchildren give for why their work isn’t finished. Very rarely do people say, “the dog ate my homework” and expect it to be taken literally; they use the expression as an example of a typically flimsy excuse.

So where did the phrase come from?

Forrest Wickman, a writer for Slate, describes the legend of the 6th-century Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise as the alleged first recorded “the dog ate my homework” story. According to the tale, Saint Ciarán had a tame young fox that would take his writings to his master for him. One day, the fox grew up and decided to eat the leather strap binding the writings together instead. Still, this tale is more Garden-of-Eden parable and less terrible schoolchild excuse.

The notion that dogs will eat just about anything, including paper, turns up in lots of stories over the centuries. An example comes from The Humors of Whist, published in 1808 in Sporting Magazine. In the story, the players are sitting around playing cards when one of them remarks that their companion would have lost the game had the dog not eaten the losing card. Good boy.

Some attribute the creation of the dog ate my homework to a joke that was going around at the beginning of the 20th century. In a tale found as far back as an 1894 memoir by Anglican priest Samuel Reynolds Hole, a preacher gives a shortened version of a sermon because a dog got into his study and ate some of the pages he had written. However, the clerk loved it because they had been wanting the preacher to shorten his sermons for years.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first example of the dog ate my homework excuse in print can be found in a speech given by retiring headmaster James Bewsher in 1929 and published in the Manchester Guardian: “It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework.” The way this comment is phrased suggests that the whole dog ate my homework story had been around for some time before it was put in print.

When was the word homework created?

But in order for a dog to eat homework specifically, homework had to be invented (oh, and how we wish it hadn’t been). True, the word homework, as in what we call today housework, appears as early as 1653. But homework, as in school exercises to be done at home, isn’t found until 1852. Once we had homework, it was only a matter of time before the dog was accused of eating it.

How we use this phrase now

No matter the origin, sometime in the 1950s, the expression became set as the dog ate my homework. This inspired any number of riffs on the theme, like my cow ate my homework or my brother ate my homework. In the 1960s, the dog ate my homework continued to gain popularity. The expression popped up a couple times in politics over the years, like when President Reagan said to reporters in 1988, “I had hoped that we had marked the end of the ‘dog-ate-my-homework’ era of Congressional budgetary … but it was not to be.”

It seems unlikely that the dog ate my homework was ever used consistently or frequently by actual schoolchildren. In fact, it’s the unlikeliness of the story that makes it so funny and absurd as a joke. Instead, teachers and authority figures appear to have cited the dog ate my homework many times over the years as such a bad excuse they can’t believe students are really using it.

In the 21st century, students don’t spend as much time working with physical pen and paper as they once did. That may contribute to the decline in the use of the phrase. So, maybe soon we’ll see a new equally absurd phrase pop up. Come on Zoomers, you’ve got this.

source:  dictionary.com

A cikk elolvasása után válaszolj röviden a következő kérdésekre az olvasott információk alapján.

1. What animal did Forrest Wickman mention in the tale?
2. Why did people love the dog that ate some of the pages that their preacher had written?
3. When was the word ‘homework’ found meaning the same we use it for today?
4. When did the expression become set?
5. Why can’t this phrase be a good excuse in the 21^st century?

keys/megoldások: 1. a tame young fox; 2. because they had wanted their preacher to deliver shorter sermons for years; 3. in 1842; 4. in the 1950’s; 5. because students don’t use pen and paper as often as they used to

Two New Yorkers fight the battle of the sexes to a standstill (without entirely realizing it) in this romantic comedy. Andie (Kate Hudson) is a young journalist who longs to cover political stories, but in the meantime, she finds herself writing for a women’s magazine called Composure, where her editor Lana Jong (Bebe Neuwirth) has her writing a fluffy advice column. After hearing of the latest dating laments of her relationship-challenged friend Michelle (Kathryn Hahn), Andie sells Lana on the idea of writing a piece on the things women do to alienate the men they love, which she’ll demonstrate by winning and then driving away a man in a mere ten days. Meanwhile, Ben (Matthew McConaughey) is an advertising man who wants to land a prestige diamond account at his firm. Ben is competing with his pals, Spears (Michael Michele) and Green (Shalom Harlow), for the assignment, so Ben tells his boss Phillip Warren (Robert Klein) that he’s the man for the job because he understands the fair sex so well he can make any woman fall for him in less than two weeks. As fate would have it, Andie and Ben end up choosing one another for their mutual assignments, with neither knowing about each other’s secret agenda as Ben strives to hold on to Andie while she does everything in her power to annoy him. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days was loosely based on the self-help book of the same name (subtitled The Universal Don’t of Dating) written by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.

source (text, pictures and video): How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (1/10) Movie CLIP – How It’s Done (2003) HD, MovieclipsA videó megnézése után döntsd el, hogy az egyes részekre vonatkozó három állításból, melyik a helyes a videóban elhangzott információk alapján.

Knicks tickets

The term “Knickerbockers” traces its origin to the Dutch settlers who came to the New World – and especially to what is now New York – in the 1600s. Specifically, it refers to the style of pants the settlers wore…pants that rolled up just below the knee, which became known as “Knickerbockers”, or “knickers”.

In 1809, legendary author Washington Irving’s book introduced the word “knickerbocker” to signify a New Yorker who could trace his or her ancestry to the original Dutch settlers.

With the publication of Irving’s book, the Dutch settler “Knickerbocker” character became synonymous with New York City. The city’s most popular symbol of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was “Father Knickerbocker”, complete with cotton wig, three-cornered hat, buckled shoes, and, of course, knickered pants.

The Knickerbocker name had its first use in the sports world in 1845, when Alexander Cartwright’s Manhattan-based baseball team – the first organized team in baseball history – was named the “New York Knickerbockers” or the “Knickerbocker Nine.” The Knickerbocker name stayed with the team even after it moved its base of operations to Elysian Fields at Hoboken, NJ in 1846.

Thus, the Knickerbocker name had been an integral part of the New York scene for more than a century when the Basketball Association of America granted a charter franchise to the city in the summer of 1946. The final decision to call the team the “Knickerbockers” was made by the club’s founder, the legendary Ned Irish. It soon was shortened to Knicks.

In keeping with another New York tradition, the team’s colors have always (except for the years from 1979-80 through 1982-83) been orange, blue and white…the official colors of New York City.

source: NBA

The French fashion giant’s career spanned more than 70 years, and his modern style helped usher in the post-war “golden age” of couture.

He also broke ground by bringing designer styles to the masses with some of the first ready-to-wear collections.

A business pioneer, he also licensed his name for a wide range of products.

He died in hospital in Neuilly, near Paris, his family told the AFP news agency.

“It is a day of great sadness for all our family. Pierre Cardin is no more,” they said in a statement. “We are all proud of his tenacious ambition and the daring he has shown throughout his life.”

Cardin was born in Italy in 1922 but moved to France as a child. One day, a fortune teller read his cards and told him he would be exceptionally successful; his name known as far away as Australia. He thought she was crazy, but asked her if she knew anyone in Paris where he wanted to work for a fashion house.

She gave him a name. Having nothing to lose, he set off, stopped a man on the street to ask directions, only to find he was the man she had mentioned.
He began his fashion career in Paris working for firms including Christian Dior, for whom he helped create the New Look collection in 1947.

He set up his own fashion company in 1950 and made his name with visionary designs like the iconic bubble dress in 1954 and his Space Age collection in 1964.

At the end of the 1950s, he launched his first ready-to-wear collection for the Printemps department store. While pop stars and actors like The Beatles and Lauren Bacall were seen wearing Cardin, his cutting-edge designs were also within reach of ordinary customers.

With a savvy business sense, he also came to recognise the appeal of the name on the label, and allowed his to be used on goods ranging from sunglasses to perfume, household accessories and food. However, to some, that expansion diluted the appeal of his core business.

Photographer and former model Nigel Barker was among those paying tribute. He tweeted: “We have lost a legend… Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin who revolutionized the industry with his futuristic designs and think outside of the box business approach has passed away today.

“He was one of the first people I worked for as a model at the beginning of my career. RIP”.

source: BBC News

”Time for Change” was released as the album’s official lead single on 22 November 2019.

The album’s second single ”Can’t Stop Christmas” was released on 20 November 2020.

“Can’t Stop Christmas“

“Oh, what a miserable year

But what a time to be alive

1.Sadly some friends disappeared

It’s never been like this before

2.It feels like we’re at war

3.So I wonder who’s gonna decide

If we can do the Auld Lang Syne

4.I wish that I could do what I like

With this family of mine

We’re going out of our minds

So what are we to do

5.About your FaceTimes and your Zooms?

There’s a room inside my mind

And it’s always here for you

Nothing’s gonna stop Christmas…

No chance

6.You can’t take away our season

Like you can’t take away the wine

Santa’s on his sleigh

7.But now he’s two metres away

The people gonna need something to believe in

8.After a year of being in

We’ve got a wish list

You can’t stop Christmas time

If you’re wondering what I’d like

9.Socks and sanitiser will do fine

10.I guess you do your shopping online

The high street lights are out

11.There’s nobody about

So where will we all be

Come this time next year?

I know you’ll be with me

And I’ll be here

Nothing’s gonna take Christmas…

You can’t take away our season

Like you can’t take away the wine

Santa’s on his sleigh

But now he’s two metres away

The people gonna need something to believe in

After a year of being in

We’ve got a wish list

You can’t stop Christmas

Why, oh why are we all waiting?

12.The whole damn world anticipating

Beyond boredom past frustration

13.The planet’s locked in what if’s and maybe’s

You can’t take away our season

Like you can’t take away the wine

Let’s lie to Santa Claus

14.Tell him it’s nineteen-eighty-four

The people gonna need something to believe in

After a year of being in

We’ve all missed this

So here’s our wish list

You can’t stop Christmas time!”

15.one of his fans commented about the song: „After the year we all have had, you can’t ”Take That” away from us!!”

source: Wikipedia and AZlyrics 

A dalban szereplő dőlt betűs részek utalások a 2020-as év néhány ‘újdonságára’ az emberek életében. Próbáld megtalálni, hogy az alábbi szavak és mondatok melyik dalszövegrészhez kapcsolódhatnak.

1. a dystopian social science fiction novel
2. lockdown
3. politicians and health experts decide what people can do
4. vaccination is expected
5. due to pandemic lots of things are taken away from people
6. victims of the pandemic
7. presents and hygiene
8. curfew
9. home office and online education
10. people working in the ‘frontline’
11. people are not allowed to do many things they like
12. you’re advised to do shopping online to avoid close contact with people
13. social distancing
14. everything is uncertain
15. successful pop group Robbin Williams was member of

keys/megoldások: 1.-14; 2.-8; 3 -3; 4.-12; 5.-6; 6.-1; 7.-9; 8.-11; 9.-5; 10.-2; 11.-4; 12.-10; 13.-7; 14.-13; 15.-15

El kell döntened, hogy szenvedő szerkezetű mondat egyszerű jelen igeidőben vagy egyszerű múlt igeidőben van. Az időhatározók nagy segítségedre lesznek ebben. A négy opcióból kell kiválasztanod a legjobb megoldást.

National Poetry Day in Hungary

We celebrate the National Poetry Day on April 11^th in homage to our most famous modern poet, Attila József (1905-37). The poem, translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, marks the 32^nd birthday of the poet.

For My Birthday

Upon my thirty-second year –
what a surprise, this poem here,
knicky-
knacky:

a little gift with which I say,
lurking alone in this café:
happy
happy.

Thirty-two years just blew away,
I never made ten doits a day:
hungry,
Hungary.

A pedagogue I might have been,
not this pen-busting, might-have-been,
saddie
laddie.

But no; Herr College Chancellor
showed me the outside of the door:
mocktor
Doctor.

It was a short sharp shock for sure,
my `father’ poem got its cure;
his word
and sword,

that saved the fatherland from me,
evoked my spirit and set free
its name
and flame.

`As long as I have any say
you’ll not teach here a single day’ –
bibble-
babble.

If Mr Antal Horger’s pleased
our poet’s grammar-study’s ceased –
folly’s
jollies –

no high school, but a nation I,
although he like not, by and by
shall teach,
shall teach.

Születésnapomra

Harminckét éves lettem én –
meglepetés e költemény
csecse
becse:

ajándék, mellyel meglepem
e kávéházi szegleten
magam
magam.

Harminckét évem elszelelt
s még havi kétszáz sose telt.
Az ám,
Hazám!

Lehettem volna oktató,
nem ily töltőtoll-koptató
szegény
legény.

De nem lettem, mert Szegeden
eltanácsolt az egyetem
fura
ura.

Intelme gyorsan, nyersen ért
a „Nincsen apám" versemért,
a hont
kivont

szablyával óvta ellenem.
Ideidézi szellemem
hevét
s nevét:

„Ön, amíg szóból értek én,
nem lesz tanár e földtekén" –
gagyog
s ragyog.

Ha örül Horger Antal úr,
hogy költőnk nem nyelvtant tanul,
sekély
e kéj –

Én egész népemet fogom
nem középiskolás fokon
taní
tani! 

1. The lights have gone out in the whole area. It must be a ……………….. .

a) power down
b) power cut 

2. The bathroom is flooded. The washing machine ……………….. .

a) is leaking
b) is trickling

3. George’s car won’t start. It probably has a/an  ……………….. .

a) flat battery
b) empty battery

4. Oh dear, this lamp doesn’t work. We need a new ……………….. .

a) lighting
b) light bulb

5. Make sure you don’t touch this wire. It’s ……………….. and you’ll get an electric shock!

a) awake
b) live

6. My fridge is not working properly. I guess I need to ……………….. it.

a) defrost
b) defreeze

7. I plugged in my hair dryer but it doesn’t work. Looks like it ………………..

a) has broken off
b) has broken down

8. I’ve lost my ……………….. and I can’t use my phone now.

a) charger
b) changer

9. You can’t use the lift. It’s out of ……………….. .

a) electricity
b) order

10. I don’t know what’s wrong with the DVD player. Where is the ……………….. ?

a) instructions booklet
b) inventions booklet

11. I bought this drill yesterday but it doesn’t work. I need to ……………….. it to the shop.

a) reclaim
b) return

12. Give me a hand. The toilet won’t ……………….. .

a) flush
b) flash

13. Oh no! I ……………….. the memory card clean by mistake.

a) wiped
b) scrubbed

14. The touchscreen on Mike’s phone is broken. He needs a ……………….. .

a) replacement
b) change

15. Our car broke down on the motorway so we called a ……………….. .

a) breakdown car
b) tow truck

answers: 1-b 2-a 3-a 4-b 5-b 6-a 7-b 8-a 9-b 10-a 11-b 12-a 13-a 14-a 15-b

“The spirit of our age is Democracy. All for the people and all by the people. Nothing about the people, without the people. That is Democracy.”

Lajos Kossuth (USA, Ohio, February 16, 1852)

Lajos Kossuth (1802-94)

A lawyer and journalist with radical political views, he was constantly in trouble with the authorities and was imprisoned from 1837 to 1840 for publishing attacks on the government. Inspired by the French Revolution of 1848, he demanded an independent government for Hungary. Kossuth’s aim was to build a modern democratic, liberal state with a constitution, which provided equality to all citizens.

When the first independent Hungarian government was formed by Lajos Batthyány, Kossuth was appointed Minister of Finance, and after Batthyány’s resignation he became provisional governor of the country. In April 1849, the Hungarian parliament declared Hungary an independent republic and Kossuth became President. As the Austrian and Russian army advanced, however, not being competent enough for extensive warfare, he handed the power over to General Görgey.

When the Hungarian army admitted defeat in August 1849, Kossuth fled to Turkey, where he was made a prisoner until 1851, but was not handed over to the Austrian authorities. During his English and American campaign to gain support for Hungarian independence his speeches – though often three hours long – attracted crowds. He left the USA in 1852 to live four more decades in exile, finally settling in Turin, Italy. Although he didn’t manage to get help, he made a strong impression on Americans and the bust of the Father of Hungarian Democracy was placed in the US Capitol on March 15, 1990.

the spirit of our age – korunk szelleme
lawyer – ügyvéd
political views – politikai nézetek
the authorities – a hatóságok
to be imprisoned – börtönbe kerülni
inspired by – valami által ihletett
aim – cél
constitution – alkotmány
equality – egyenlőség
citizen – állampolgár
Minister of Finance – pénzügyminiszter
resignation – lemondás
to declare – kinyilvánítani
independent republic – független köztársaság
to hand the power over – átadni a hatalmat
defeat – vereség
support – támogatás
speech – beszéd
to attract – vonzani
in exile – száműzetésben
to make a strong impression on – mély benyomást tenni valakire
bust – mellszobor

 Let It Go

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight,
not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the queen.

1. ………………..
Couldn’t keep it in, Heaven knows I tried.
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see.
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know.

2. ………………..

 Let it go, let it go!
Can’t hold it back any more.
Let it go, let it go!
Turn away and slam the door.
3. ………………..
Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway.

 It’s funny how some distance,
4. ………………..
And the fears that once controlled me, can’t get to me at all
It’s time to see what I can do,
5. ………………..
No right, no wrong, no rules for me.
I’m free!

 Let it go, let it go.
6. ………………..
Let it go, let it go.
You’ll never see me cry.
Here I’ll stand, and here I’ll stay.
Let the storm rage on.

 My power flurries through the air into the ground.
My soul is spiralling in frozen fractals all around
7. ………………..
I’m never going back; the past is in the past!

 Let it go, let it go.
And I’ll rise like the break of dawn.
Let it go, let it go
8. ………………..
Here I stand, in the light of day.

Let the storm rage on!
The cold never bothered me anyway…

answers:  1-D 2-F 3-A 4-C 5-H 6-E 7-G 8-B

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Let It Go 

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight,
not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the queen.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside.
Couldn’t keep it in, Heaven knows I tried.
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see.
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know.
Well, now they know!

Let it go, let it go!
Can’t hold it back any more.
Let it go, let it go!
Turn away and slam the door.
I don’t care what they’re going to say.
Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway.

It’s funny how some distance,
makes everything seem small.
And the fears that once controlled me, can’t get to me at all
It’s time to see what I can do,
to test the limits and break through.
No right, no wrong, no rules for me.
I’m free!

Let it go, let it go.
I am one with the wind and sky.
Let it go, let it go.
You’ll never see me cry.
Here I’ll stand, and here I’ll stay.
Let the storm rage on.

My power flurries through the air into the ground.
My soul is spiralling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I’m never going back; the past is in the past!

Let it go, let it go.
And I’ll rise like the break of dawn.
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand, in the light of day.

Let the storm rage on!
The cold never bothered me anyway…

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to glow – ragyogni, csillogni
isolation – elszigeteltség
howling – üvöltő
swirling – kavargó
to conceal – leplezni
to hold something back – visszatartani valamit
to slam the door – becsapni az ajtót
to rage – dühöngeni
to bother – zavarni, idegesíteni
to get to someone – rossz hatással valakire, bosszant valakit
to test the limits – feszegetni a határokat
to flurry – kavarog
soul – lélek
icy blast – jeges széllökés
the break of dawn – hajnalhasadta

To win an Oscar is everyone’s secret dream. So if you ever do get the chance to win an Academy Award, allow us to help you perfect your acceptance speech for when you receive your Oscar.

Paint your face, put on your glad rags, and borrow a million dollars’ worth of diamonds. Oscar’s here! And you can learn a lot about the do’s and don’ts of speech making just by looking at him: he’s short, he’s shiny and he has no naughty bits. VideoJug has sifted through 79 years of Oscar history to bring you the dos and don’ts of Oscar etiquette so that when you have to make an impromptu speech, you’ll look like a star.

Step 1: And the winner is….

The first thing to get right is your reaction to the result.
“And the winner for Best Supporting Actor Oscar goes to…”
It is critical that if you lose you don’t do what Samuel L Jackson did at the 1994 Oscars.
Whatever your studio executives have told you, expect to lose, and when you win your delight will be beamed across the world … it’ll be the first really honest performance of your career.

Step 2: Small ones are more juicy

In the 1940s, Greer Garson managed a speech that seemed to go on for about three days. Now there is a long standing rule at the Academy Awards that no speech should be longer than 45 seconds. So none of this:
“I would really like to thank my ancestors, because if it wasn’t for my ancestors they wouldn’t have given birth to my great-great grandparents, who wouldn’t have given birth to my grandparents”
Be clear and structured, so the audience know where they are. This doesn’t mean you can’t tell a joke, but do it fast enough to ensure the whole world has not switched off and gone to bed by the time you get to the punchline.
“I wanted to thank them because without them, I would not be stood in front of y’all today, so I want to say thanks and God Bless America – this is for you Cleetus!”

Step 3: Fight the power

The political speech is a fine art. If you really want to get people talking about your speech then you can’t do better than bringing up on stage a small indigenous character in traditional garb, whose home is under threat from a war, chemical spill or multinational plastic toy manufacturer.
“This is Takawana. His entire village has just been bought by Disney- this is an outrage!”
Remember to only accept your Oscar on behalf of his entire tribe, and finish with a clenched fist that suggests solidarity with all other troubled tribes everywhere. This is well worth doing for the massive DVD market that will open up for your subsequent films.

Step 4: Crying a river

When Gwyneth Paltrow dissolved into floods of tears for her best actress win for Shakespeare in Love, she tapped into something that had been irritating Oscar lovers for years: the excess of emotion.
“You know what. When I was little- all we had to eat was wild turkey, and when there was no more wild turkey, we ate squirrel! And when there was no more squirrel, we ate dust! We just had to put our faces in the dust and suck and lick it up! Oh god!
You’re a professional! Keep those emotions in check! Dry your eyes, get it together and smile for the cameras, sweetheart, you’re ruining your own big moment.

Step 5: Make your clothes work for you

Although lots of people win Oscars each year, only one actor really “wins” – and that’s the one that gets written about most afterwards. One of the best ways to make sure you get more column inches than anyone else is to wear something truly astonishing like Bjork did in 2001 when she turned up as a swan. Be super super glamorous, and if you are going to go to all this trouble, make sure your clothes stay on.

Step 6: Make ’em laugh

When the English Patient won nine Oscars in 1997, director Anthony Minghella remarked that “this is a great day for the Isle of Wight.”
A single good joke can stay in the audience’s minds far more than a parade of poor ones. So if you think you might win something, work hard on a good gag. And if you can’t think of one, ask your funniest friend.

acceptance speech – átvevő beszéd
glad rags – a legpuccosabb ruha
the do’s and don’ts – mit szabad és mit nem
naughty bits – csintalan, pajzán rész
impromptu – rögtönzött
to expect to – számítani valamire
delight – öröm
long-standing rule – régóta fennálló szabály
ancestor – ős
structured – jól szerkesztett
punchline – poén
cleetus – paraszt
indigenous – bennszülött
traditional garb – népviselet, hagyományos öltözék
outrage – felháborodás, felháborító dolog
clenched fist – ökölbe szorított kéz
subsequent – következő
to dissolve in tears – könnyekben tör ki
to keep something in check – kordában tartani
to ruin – tönkretenni
column – újság hasábja
astonishing – döbbenetes
to go to trouble – veszi a fáradságot
single – egyetlen
to stay in someone’s mind – megmarad a fejében
gag – poén