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WEP 190315 .Pages Weekly English Practice 19th March 2015 English Coaching Projects S.Coop. WHY I LOVE… …THE WIRE set: to put (something or someone) in a particular place whatever institution you've committed to." longshoreman/stevedore: a person who works on the docks of a Some critics have likened it to a modern day Charles Dickens’s Season Three moves onto the political scene and inevitably the port loading and unloading vessels. classic in its depth and scope. It has been hailed ‘a modern TV corrupt political system and politicians. The Wire brilliantly hailed: to approve enthusiastically, to praise masterpiece.’ intertwines and compares the business, political and drug dealing interests in Baltimore. There are very few innocent people warts and all: if you describe or show someone or something No other drama can match the detailed characters and depiction in the series. warts and all, you do not try to hide the bad things about them of real life. In The Wire there are no Hollywood heroes or generic pawns: one of eight chess pieces of one colour and of the lowest stereotypes, just normal people living their lives warts and all. Season Four covers the failing and cash starved education system value. Someone used to advance another person's objetives and attempts by teachers to do their best for the kids many of The name of the show comes from the telephone tap or WIRE the whom will end up on the corners selling drugs. intertwines: to be or become very closely involved and mixed Baltimore cops use to listen to the city’s drug dealers. Season One with each other introduces two groups of characters, from the Baltimore police The show ends after Season Five which takes a look at the media Spoiler alert: a term to describe when crucial elements of a movie department and a drug dealing organisation run by the Barksdale and media consumption while at the same time pulling all the are about to be revealed family. The foot soldiers of the gang protect their corners, by any various threads of the Wire together. D’ ya feel me? Do you understand? means necessary, where they sell the drugs while the special Many hardcore fans of the show (myself included) have put time police squad set up to break up the drug trade use a wire to get to aside every year since 2008 when the series ended to watch the The WIRE (2002-2008) is a US television the people behind the pawns on the street. entire boxset. If you have not already seen The Wire I envy you for drama made and set in Baltimore. David Season Two continues to look at the effects of drugs on the poor what you are about to experience when you start watching. Simon who created the drama said the show is but expands to portray the blue-collar urban working class as A spoiler alert does not really apply to a review of the Wire nor "Really about the American city, and about how exemplified by stevedores in the city port. can I mention any one character perhaps because the city of we live together. It's about how institutions Baltimore, and the real lives lived there, is the real star. have an effect on individuals, and Simon said he was not making a feel good show: how... whether you're a cop, a “We are not selling hope, or audience gratification, or Do yourself a favour and watch it. D’ ya feel me? longshoreman, a drug cheap victories with this show. The Wire is making an By John Hird dealer, a politician, a argument about what institutions—bureaucracies, judge or lawyer, you criminal enterprises, the cultures of addiction, Further Wire info: are ultimately raw capitalism even—do to individuals. It is not The Wire Homepage / HBO: http://www.hbo.com/the-wire#/ compromised and designed purely as an entertainment. It is, I'm The Wire Language: http://dialectblog.com/2011/08/09/accents-in- must contend with afraid, a somewhat angry show.” the-wire/ tel: 945 042152 - twitter: englishcoaching - facebook: English Coaching Projects - www.englishcoachingprojects.net - [email protected] “ “ Something to chat about Express yourself better! “ “iLook, iThink, iSpeak” “• Give a brief summary of the text. • Have seen the series? Is there any better way • Who are your favourite characters? to practice your English “Mmm, that’s tasty” :-) • than chatting over a drink Did you find it difficult to understand? while munching on a bar • If you haven’t seen it would you consider ECP presents a… snack? watching it after reading the review? LIVE!English Eat and drink and • Are you following any TV series at the event practice English with your moment? Come to our ECP coaches and other • How do you watch series - on TV, “I’ll have another one” :-) students. Win a prize boxed sets or on-line? PINTXO POTE too in our Pintxo Pote • What are your top 5 all-time best TV night on… Thursday 26th March at 9pm prize draw! series? Meeting POint: ECp Hub SEE YOU THERE! • Do you watch TV series in the original (c/San Ignacio de Loyola 15 bajo) version and/or with subtitles? CLASSIC QUOTE FROM THE WIRE (Robin Hood character Omar being questioned by the drug gang’s lawyer Maurice Levy) Maurice 'Maury' Levy: You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the The Wire TRIVIA despair of the drug trade. You are stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off... Many of the minor characters are played by real-life police officers, politicians Omar: Just like you, man. and former criminals. In fact, many of the former criminals who act! on the show Maurice 'Maury' Levy: ...the culture of drugs. Excuse me? What? were previously arrested by the real-life cops who act on the show Omar: I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right? In season one, two detectives, Augustus Polk and Patrick Mahon - were assigned to the THE WIRE - 100 Greatest Quotes (spoilers) Barksdale detail. The names "Polk" and "Mahon" are a play on "pogue mahone," the anglicized https://youtu.be/-Sg j78QG9Bg version of an Irish expression meaning "kiss my ass." LANGUAGE IN THE WIRE In an unusual move for a police series the officers almost never fire their guns. Even for native speakers of English the language used in The Wire can be difficult to Only one police officer, Prez, ever fires his gun on the show and in all three understand at first because the characters speak in broad Baltimore accents. It is cases it is a mistake. The first time he accidentally shoots the squad room wall. recommended to turn on the English subtitles to help you understand the show but it is well The second time he drunkenly fires a shot into the air and then (compounding his worth it. In no time you will be using rich andthe expressive Wire if you phrases. are offended WARNING: by bad Don’t language! watch gun mistakes) uses it to pistol whip a teenager, blinding him in one eye. The third time he mistakenly shoots an undercover cop. [email protected] tel: 945 042152 - twitter: englishcoaching - facebook: English Coaching Projects - www.englishcoachingprojects.net - .
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