Tuesday 15 March 2011

The IT Crowd: team players!


Back again with some brief pieces of the hilarious BBC series The IT Crowd. In this episode, which is the first one, Jen goes to an interview where what she has included in her CV turns against her.

Some vocabulary you may need for this piece:

a stare
to know your stuff



As you can imagine, her relationship with the IT team is not precisely great, so they decide to tell their boss that it's not working out for them. Do you remember the collocation, "to work as a team"? Well, you'll hear it a couple of times here.

This second video is subtitled. Some vocabulary you may want to look up before watching:

to escort
the premises (do you remember what it means?)
recruitment
to get on like a house on fire:




Enjoy!

(dedicated to all the IT technicians and engineers in our classes)


5 comments:

  1. Thanks Bea, it´s so funny!! :)

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  2. I agree Cristina, So funny! (I enjoy it in spite of not being Technician or engineer!!!)

    I can even remember myself watching "the A-Team" sitting on the floor when I was a little boy during the long summer afternoons...oh Gosh!!!

    P.S. the "A-team" members were a sort of military technicians, weren´t they?

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  3. Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

    Actually, I haven't the faintest idea what the A-Team did! I know from the introduction of each episode that they belonged to the US Army and were accused of a crime they hadn't committed, but that's all!

    Thank you for commenting! :)

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  4. I'm a little jelous. I recognise that being a "nerd" is a good point but what happens with the crazy team?(the psychologist group).
    Enjoy the weekend.
    Bests,
    Esther

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  5. Everything comes to the man who waits...

    Have a good weekend too, thank you!!

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