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the man Ilove:
jak se bezbolestn
120/121 tvo vztan vty
Nejdve si ujasnme pojmy: co
THE OLD MAN AND THE BUS There were still afew empty
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jsou vlastn vztan vty? Aco

seats when Igot on the bus. It was nearly 6pm but the driver jsou vztan zjmena, kvli nim
was waiting for the bus to fill up. Inoticed amiddle-aged vztan vty pedstavuj takov
woman who was just taking her seat at the opposite side problm? Kl: bavme seoslovech
of the aisle. She seemed to be crying and without talking to jako kter/ kdo/ co, tak jak se
anyone in particular, she sat down and started telling her story nm prezentuj vevtch typu
for everyone to hear. ten strom, kter vera spadl
Apparently she had come to the city to visit her daughter and ministi, kte budou zasteleni
on her way to the bus terminal one of her bags had been vyjmenuj vecko, co sed prodat
stolen from her. The worst part was, half her money was in the
bag. The other half was rolled in ahankie and hidden under Vztanmi vtami pekypuje ka-
her blouse so she still had some money left. The bus conductor, d jazyk vetn anglitiny ajejich
driver and the other passengers all listened and tried to neznalost vrazn sr kvalitu
sympathize with her. naeho vyjadovn.
Then an old man got on the bus and took the seat in front of
Upodstatnch jmen urench
the crying woman. He was wearing dirty clothes and smelled
krozvit musme bt schopni rych-
really bad. Afew minutes later all the seats were taken. The
le urit, zda jsou ivotn i nei-
driver got behind the wheel and started the engine. The bus votn apodle toho nasadit sprv-
conductor took out his ticket book and began asking us where n vztan zjmeno (the girl
we were getting off. When he got to the old man, he took which Ilove).
agood look at him and then asked if the man had any money
on him. The old man explained that he had spent all his money U mn dleit je schopnost od-
that morning when he accidentally got on the wrong bus. liit vztanou vtu upesuj-
c (ena, kter m porodila) ado-
The conductor told him that he couldnt ride the bus unless he
plkovou (pijede moje matka,
could pay. The man shrugged and looked down. The conductor
sekterou jsem seji roky nevidl),
told him he needed to get off the bus, but the old man wouldnt
pestoe senan vevuce hod-
move. When the driver joined in and started to shout at the
n bazruje. pln nejvc sevm
old man, the woman stepped in. She asked the two men to vbnm uvn anglitiny vypla-
stop yelling and let the man ride on the bus. She said that not t schopnost nepouvat vztan
having money wasnt reason enough to get kicked out into the zjmena tam, kde jich nen akut-
cold. Then she asked how much the mansfare was. The bus n poteba: the bag you dropped/
conductor mumbled an amount. all Iwant
The woman reached under her blouse, took out her only
Hodn vysvtlovn sebude toit
remaining money, handed it to the bus conductor and said,
kolem slvka co, kter je pvodcem
Hereshis fare and mine. Just stop giving him ahard time. Cant
vtiny problm, je ns vsou-
you see hesold and weak? When the bus left the terminal, the
vislosti stouto gramatikou trp.
old man and the woman kept talking for awhile and Isaw her
Na rozdl odetiny setoti what
give him some of her food and aten-dollar bill. She smiled for vanglitin jako vztan zjmeno
the rest of the trip. So did I.

Icant believe you actually fell asleep. esk A, ve smyslu ne dv ne: come on, grab uitel do vs budou hustit rozdly mezi typy
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What? Did Inotice it right away? No, not
until you started snoring. Still, Iwonder
what made you want to sleep. Do Isound
too boring for you to stay awake? What do
Ihave to do to keep you interested?
RIGHT AWAY je esk HNED (bez prodlen),
hovorov verze znmjho immediately ablzk
pbuzn, ne-li alter ego, straight away/ right
off. odlite si jej od RIGHT NOW jako TE
HNED (lets tell her right now/ we should have
told her right away) anepouvejte jej ve vtch
typu HNED JAK: you will know its her THE
SECOND you see her/ AS SOON AS she gets her
divorce, one of us is going to marry her
hlavnm tahkem tto sti je ovem NOT
UNTIL, kter na zatku vty funguje jako
his legs not until Iknow hes dead (a si budu
jist, e je mrtv)
Look, Idont want this to happen ever
again. Idont think it was my fault anyway.
If you felt sleepy, you could have simply
excused yourself and left. Do you have any
idea how much Im being paid here? Ive
been teaching here for ten years without
abreak, but Ive never seen astudent fall
asleep in class.
je to neuviteln, ale nenachzm zde dn
point, jemu bychom se dosud nevnovali. snad
jen IN CLASS jako esk ve vyuovn/ vhodin
(bez lenu avjednotnm sle) podobn in
school/ when school started (oboj bez lenu).
pobytu vrznch pitlech, kostelech anprav-
nch zazench, ale vdnen anglitin se na to
u tolik nehraje: Iwent to prison to do research
for the film (v uitel bude vyadovat the ped
prison, protoe zde nedochz kva inkarce-
raci)/ the singer has been in the hospital since
fainting on Sunday (zde se stejnmu pedagogovi
pro zmnu nebude lbit urit len ped hospital,
protoe zuebnic vyetl, e pokud lovk
vyuv slueb tohoto zazen, pak je in hospital.
ano, bavme se stle otomt uiteli, kter vs
doposud nenauil pouvat so that velovch
vtch ani obrat be supposed to namsto toho
vs dus na pedbudoucch asech alenech
upoloostrov) Q
What asad day this is. Ican barely keep from
crying. Icant believe the school year is over.

nepouv: everything what you
said/ the names what we chose.
Naopak astji ne esk jeho/ je-
j sevanglitin pouv jejich
ekvivalent whose - ten najdeme
mimo jin ivevtch typu the guy
whose son you kidnapped lovk,
ktermu jsi unesl syna
Jak vyplv zve eenho,
vztanch vt je vce druh, au
kadho znich se lov z trochu ji-
nho souboru vztanch zjmen
Its aproblem being beautiful.
Its only the handsome men who
ask us out because theyre the
only ones who think they have
achance, which can be annoying.
g hezc chlapi, co ns zvou naran-
de/ jedin, kdo si mysl/ co me
bt otravn
Becky is gonna keep singing the
songs (that) you thought were
silly because youre the only one
that seems to be bothered.
g psniky, kter ti pipadly
hloup/ jedin, komu to vad
Nejuitenjm vztanm z-
jmenem je that, kter lze pout
vevtin vztanch vt. Respekti-
ve pout lze pln kterkoli zjme-
no, ba kterkoli slovo, veprospch
that ale mluv to, ebv asto
sprvn
Our stay in Montreal was very
exciting, especially going through
everything that had made up our
lives for the past 20 years. g vech-
no, zeho seskldal n ivot.
esk studentstvo si znjak-
ho dvodu nesmrn oblbilo z-
jmeno which (nejen nakor who,
kde trop nejvc neplechy: peop-
le which saw me). Silnou nedv-
ru naopak tat komunita pojala
keslovu that, co je podle m d-
sledkem nkolika zcela rznch po-
uit tohoto slova
Has it really been eight months since we star-
ted? That sucks, it really does.
nedocenn BARELY jako esk SKORO V-
BEC (zde spe jako jen tak tak, e) zastupuje
stejn jako malinko formlnj aznmj vyhbat f-word, kter m ive vulgrn angli-
HARDLY vlastn ALMOST NOT: the sound
quality was crappy, Icould barely hear what she
was saying skoro jsem ani neslyel/ tak tak e
jsem vbec slyel
KEEP FROM se obvykle vyskytuje spedm-
tem: whats keeping you from doing it? co ti
brn vtom, abys to provedl? zde ale dnm
nedisponuje amn se tm ijeho peklad:
brnm se pli
kdyby se anglick slovn zsoba vyuovala
striktn podle uitenosti, pak by vta THAT
SUCKS! pedchzela obratu my name is xy.
The girl from that beautiful blue You havent told your
PSYCH-OUTS
house says that youveturned
into acomplete monster. All the wife yet, have you? -
things that were nice about you
have gone g ztoho domu/ k,
No, Ihavent. Iwont,
eseztebe stal/ vechno, co either. What, should
natob bylo hezk
I? Imean, would you?
Abychom sevrtili kzkladn kla- You might, but Im not
sifikaci, vztanch vt existuj
vpodstat ti zkladn typy. Dv- gonna.
mi znich upesujeme, zatmco
tetm pouze doplujeme dal in- the game of kings/ 2 of 3
formace
mon to udlm,
the tree that fell was very old aby ml radost
gspecifikujeme okter strom jde/
nsledn sloveso FALL seopt vzta- achy jsou jin ne
huje kestromu, proto zde mus bt ostatn hry co znm
vztan zjmeno/ namsto THAT je nutn fakt hodn
mete pout WHICH, to vak po-
pemlet
nkud ust paprem
the tree we cut down was ale nen teba spchat
very old g opt specifikujeme, ten- kdo jin snmi bude
tokrt seale sloveso CUT nevzta- jet hrt?
huje vprv ad kestromu jako
pvodci dje, nbr kNM jako chce, abych se zeptal
pedmtu/ vtchto typech vt je bratrance?
mon vztan zjmeno vynechat S different | hard | make | may | need
aobvykle setak idje/ pout lze
THAT/WHICH, uivotnch podstat-
nch jmen by to byla THAT/WHO
the tree, which was very old, Hopefully we will be
fell down g pouze okrajov po-
znmka oji identifikovanm stro-
getting atwo-bedroom
mu- zde je nutn pout jedno place soon so there
zdvou vztanch zjmen, WHICH
nebo WHO, projednou nelze pou- will be plenty of room
t THAT/ uivotnch p.j. bychom
pouili WHO: the man, WHO was
for you to stay com-
very old/ narozdl odostatnch fortably.
typ vztanch vt je zde vedlej
vta oddlena rkou
the game of kings/ 3 of 3
Vprvnm adruhm typu (ten
uit lidi hrt je zbava
chlap, co sepomn spe/ ten
chlap, co seponm spu) ved- ikdy ne kadmu to jde
lej vtou specifikujete, okte- ani jeden zmch kamard
rho chlapa jde, respektive co achy nehraje
dl: vevaem okol sevyskytuje
ada chlap, ale jen jeden znich
ale to by mi nemlo
brnit vmm snaen
senavs spe, ppadn sevy s-
pete jen najednoho konkrtnho S even though | good | none | stop from
astnka. Vtina vztanch vt
je prv tohoto typu, nazvanho
upesujc. Being in awheelchair
isnt the handicap it
politick korektnost aupejpavost vydavatel
used to be in the old
iautor uebnic jej ale dr stranou naeho days. It doesnt screw
povdom. zde je malink preview klovch
anglickch vulgarit upozoruju, e se budu your career up like it
tin vlunou pozici apr dalm anatomicky
used to.
zabarvenm slovm: SCREW the doctors and
screw the meds na doktory alky seru/ Iwant
to play good games and Idont give aSHIT who
makes them seru na to, kdo je vyrb/ shoppers
have noticed what aPIECE OF CRAP that bike
is co za sraku to je, e stoj pln za hovno/
these guys totally KICK ASS, plus they are good
friends, so of course Im rooting for them oni
jsou naprosto bo (jde jim to skvle). upozor-
uju, e jde pouze oorientan nstel nkolika
stejnch prvk nestandardn anglitiny, we
have barely scratched the surface jet jsme ani
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Vprvnm znich je njak vzta-
n zjmeno nutn

122/123 Have you heard about the guy

who (that) swam from Liverpool
to Boston crawl-style?
g chlapovi, co doplaval
This is an extremely important
SINGLE BY CHOICE Have you ever had amarried friend make
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complex issue which/that needs

comments to you that were meant to make you feel inferior? Did to be thoroughly ignored.
you ever feel like people were judging you for not being married g problm, kter je nutn dklad-
yet? Whatseveryonesproblem? Marriage just isnt that important n ignorovat
to some people. My boyfriend and Iare not in ahuge rush to marry. Where is the cat that scratched
Not now and possibly not ever. After all, itsjust apiece of paper my dogs butt? g koka, co pokr-
and awedding day that costs way too much money and would be bala mmu psovi prdel
better spent on, say, avacation. Why dopeople think you need to Vztan zjmeno je nutn pou-
show your love by getting married? It just drives me nuts to have t proto, esloveso vnsledujc
someone feel sorry for me or show me pity. vt sevztahuje pmo kpodmtu
vty (the piano THAT stands in the
Theresthis girl that Im friends with who happens to be one of corner takto stoj v protikladu k
those people that like to compare everything to prove that you the piano my grandfather bought,
got araw deal. Weveknown each other forever so Im used to vnm sesloveso vztahuje kddo-
hearing her talk up married life. When she was getting married vi, nikoli kpinu).
and Iwasnt, that was pretty much the only thing she had going
over me. Iswear she must have waved her engagement ring in Vtomto typu vt mete pou-
my face amillion times. Ididnt care and at one point Imade it t bu that (to vevech ppa-
clear to her how Ifelt about marriage. Ithink it ticked her off dech), ppadn which pro nei-
abit. Well, at least Idont have to keep listening to her talk about votn (mlo ast, vtinou jej su-
flowers and gowns anymore. pluje that) awho pro ivotn
pedmty. Poznte jej ipodle toho,
Now that she actually is married and settled down, she doesnt epovztanm zjmenu nsle-
make those comments all that often. But it doesnt take much duje sloveso anikoli dal osoba
to get her going. Iwas with her in the shopping mall the other i vc: the bullet that killed him
day and as we walked past the jewelry store, she pointed at the (versus) the bullet that WE found
engagement rings and said, Bet you wish you had one of those,
The woman who lives next
huh? Isaid, No, actually Idont, and she was like, yeah right. door has been married 17 times.
Then she asked when my boyfriend is going to propose. Iwas (that)
stunned. Somehow, itsokay for her to stick her nose into our Ihear you know a guy who runs
plans. Where does she get off telling me what to dowith my life? a dry cleaning business. (that)
Ijust wish shed stop meddling in my affairs and minded her own The poor man used an elevator
business. that had not been used in years.
(which)
Iswear if Idecide to get married someday, itsgoing to be aquick
Is there a problem that needs to
ceremony with none of the crazy stuff that goes on at regular be dealt with right now? (which)
weddings, like drunken family members or stoned groomsmen.
Iknow, everyone swears that their wedding is going to be areally Na rozdl odprvnho typu spo-
small one, and they all end up with dozens of people stumbling lu vdruhm (ta ensk, okter
around whose names they dont even know and pain-in-the-ass jsme sesbrchou bavili/ plane-
relatives they would rather not meet or talk to. So yes, before you ta, don raketa nakonec vrazila)
say so, Im aware of the dangers and Ill try to steer clear of them interaktuj dva objekty, zde kon-
when the day comes. That is, if it ever does.

podn nezaali/ theres more where that came sloveso MIND (vadit, ovem na rozdl od eti- And even though Ididnt do very well on
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from vzsob je toho mnohem vc ny sivotnm podmtem: it didnt mind me/ it this test, theres really nothing to be asha-
didnt bother me) se poj sING tvarem nsled- med of. Im pleased with the progress Ive
But still, Istudied hard, tried not to miss nho slovesa ato itehdy, pokud tmto slove-
made and Icant help feeling proud of my
too many classes, followed my teachers sem je HAVE TO. podobn dsiv kaz je kna-
lezen iujinch pedloek: you can actually shop
efforts.
advice, didnt mind having to talk in class.
here WITHOUT HAVING TO pay?/ Jose brag- spojen DO WELL ON ATEST se me jevit
In fact, Ienjoyed having an audience.
ged ABOUT NOT HAVING TO work out as hard samozejmm. DO je udlat, WELL je dobe,
zvraznn advice? ano, advice apro advi- as other players chlubil se tm, e nemusel dt TEST je test, nkomu se podail jaksi test. to
ce? protoe advices, hloup: before Ideparted tak moc kde je problm? Iwasnt very good in the test/
from my house Ihadnt any knowledges regar- the test was very hard for me/ Ididnt succeed
ding the life so Ipleased my father for giving me tvar HAVING (stejn jako napklad BEING)
in the test
many advices and informations and for example nm neleze zhuby tak pln snadno. to nm za-
vdv pinu ktomu nemt rd slovesa, vjejich spodstatnm jmnem PROGRESS se poj slo-
he said me that money arent important what
sousedstv jej nachzme, napklad ENJOY veso MAKE, stejn jako teba se slovy mistake/
Ididnt know. uh huh. well, Ihope for your sake
nebo KEEP: Ikeep having adream where Im suggestion/ joke/ offer/ decision amnoha
that your father wasnt sending you to an English
falling off ahuge skyscraper and Idont hit the mnoha jinmi: he does alot of mistakes/ who did
speaking country.
bottom pod mvm jeden sen avnm padm these decisions?

krtn a) ensk aj sbrchou; b)
planeta araketa
The woman (that) we saw the
other day sure seemed to be in
abad mood. (who)
Do you know the guy (that)
Steve is talking to? (who)
The cat (that) my dog ate seems
to have been an expensive one.
(which)
Nejpirozenji vtchto vtch zn
that. Pout mete sice iwho pro
ivotn pedmty nebo which pro
neivotn, jedno idruh ale trochu
skpou v uch. Nejlep volbou,
alespo vbnm projevu, je vyne-
chat vztan zjmeno pln
Some of the things Tobias said
were kind of strange. Like the
joke he told, the one nobody
laughed at. g vci, kter Tobias
ekl/ ten vtip, co ekl/ ten, kter-
mu senikdo nesml
Is there anything Ican doto
help you out? Something you
cant doon your own? g mu ti
njak pomoct/ nco co nezvld-
ne sm
The speech you gave was nice
but Istill dont understand why
you didnt use the one Iwrote.
g ten projev co jsi ml/ ten co
jsem jej sepsal
Prv ztohoto typu vt serekru-
tuj naprvn pohled tko pocho-
piteln vtn seky, kter vm
nyn pedstavm vponkud ex-
trmn variant.
Rodil mluv by nsledujc vtu
radji proloili vztanmi zjme-
ny pro snaz orientaci, ale jinak
sejedn ogramaticky vce mn
nenapadnutelnou a(pokratm
mentlnm zanoeni) srozumitel-
nou informaci
uivatelsky nepli vstcn spojen CANT LISAS STORY : Ispent two or three years
HELP -ING zn znjakho dvodu imnoho stu-
dent, kte se teprve prokousvaj zklady an-
glick gramatiky. rozum se samo sebou (it goes
without saying), e pout jej aktivn dnho
ani nenapadne, to ostatn nedoke ani vtina
pokroilch student. ani ti jej toti nemaj za-
fixovan pro situace, vnich by etina nams-
to doslovnho nemu si pomoct, abych shla
po obratech jako: jsem na nj prost hrozn py-
n/ nemu na nj nebt pyn. jinde zase: mu-
sel jsem na ni pod zrat Icouldnt help sta-
ring at her/ Icant help wondering if you missed
the point pod mi vrt hlavou, jestli jsi vbec
pochopila oco jde Q
Tell me about the big pink closet Of all the bad dates
PSYCH-OUTS
the guy your husband likes sold
you. g ta velk rov sk, kte- Ive had in my life, you
rou ti prodal ten chlap, co ho m
rd tvj manel
were the worst one.
We really didnt have
Nakonec je zde tet typ, zcela
odlin odprvnch dvou. Vnm anything in common.
sedle rozvj pedmt, kter
je uniktn aunho bychom aswallows lament/ 1 of 2
ibezrozvit vdli, okoho nebo
dnes zatm docela fouk
co sejedn: mj manel, kter m
vivot ani nepolbil, mi oznmil kvli tomu se tko lt
Bavme setedy ovedlejch vtch, je dokonce mon,
kter poskytuj pouze doplujc e bude bouka
informace
poznm to podle tch
This is only our second State tmavch mraen
Dinner. The first was for the Em-
peror of Japan, who died shortly hned jak uslym hrom
after that, so we stopped having tak si pjdu najt
them for awhile, just in case.
njak kryt
g japonsk csa, kter zemel
S even | hide | make | place | second | tell |
During the summer, Ispend most windy
weekends at my sisters beach
house, which you are welcome
to use by the way. g dm umoe,
dokterho klidn me jezdit Isometimes suspect
Utchto rozvit je nutn pout that there are no for-
bu which nebo who (jedin typ, eign languages, that
kde nefunguje that), ato podle
ivotnosti pedmtu. Vztan vta foreigners just pretend
vtomto ppad pedmt nespeci- to speak foreign lan-
fikuje, nbr onm pouze dodv
upesujc informace
guages so they can
Icome from alarge family of make fun of dumb
losers, who repeatedly promi-
sed theyd change their ways, and
American tourists.
repeatedly failed to doso.
g budikniemov, kte opakova- aswallows lament/ 2 of 2
n slibovali
nesnam se udlat
Blake moved to the door, which
na ostatn dojem
had been left open to let abreeze
in. g dvee, kter nechali oteven tm, e tu budu poletovat
vbouce
Podvejme sejet naposled
nadvojici pklad, dokumentujc nechtl bych, aby m
rozdl mezi vedlejmi vtami do- trefil blesk
datkovmi aupesujcmi ikdy ne vdycky zabije
the fish (that) the cat ate tak to pr docela dost bol
the cat that ate the fish S by -ing | hate | hit | impress | supposed
here teaching both kids and adults English.
That was in the mid-90s.
tedy vpolovin devadestch let; pro popis
dekd pouv anglitina prv tento formt
(in the fifties/ in the 50s), ikdy konkrtn
sprvnm desetiletm novho centuria m trochu
problm (in the 00s?). pamatujte na urit len
(in sixties) puntiki pi spellingu ina absenci
apostrofu (in the 70s). za povimnut stoj ipo-
uit slov EARLY aLATE vasovm kontextu:
in the early sixties ze zatku edestch let/ in
late June koncem ervna.
podobnm zpsobem se zajmav pekld
iesk piblin uren vku, jen je unj teba
pout pivlastovac zjmeno: my grandmas IN
HER EIGHTIES and her memorys slipping je
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124/125
VPRVN vt by lo pout that,
ale nen to nutn. esk student
nejsp pouije which (the fish
which the cat ate) m vta nabe-
re patinu starch zalch as. Ro-
THAT DONT MAKE IT JUNK Having ayard sale basically means
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dil mluv pouije bu that nebo

selling things that you dont need anymore in front of your house nic - the fish athe cat se nach-
at low prices. My girlfriend Sarah and Iare having one right now. z v bezprostednm sousedstv a
Were moving to aplace 500 miles away and we have agreed ani jednomu z nich to evidentn
that it would be stupid to drag loads of junk with us that we ly netrh
know were never going to use. In order to sell as many things
as possible, you need to let people know that theresgoing to be VDRUH vt u njak vzta-
ayard sale. n zjmeno bt mus. N stu-
dent zklobouku neochvjn vylo-
You can dothis either by putting an ad in the papers, placing v what (ta koka co sndla rybu),
asign outside your house or simply by going door to door ppadn seoprav nawhich. Ro-
handing out invitations. Ideally, you doall three. Some people will dil mluv tm stoprocentn
figure itsagood chance to buy stuff on the cheap, others just pouije that.
happen to drive by and stop to check it out. Some of the things
you offer will turn out to be useless (we knew some of ours were VTET vt je which kone-
kind of along shot), and youll throw those away. n sprvn. Vzhledem kpedm-
tu vty sevak ve vzpt zvrhne
Our sale was supposed to start at eight but people started showing
vthlou debatu otom, jak ez-
up even earlier. Apparently itsawell-known fact among yardsale-
jmena sepoj sjakmi zvaty,
goers that by the time ayard sale officially opens all the good jak mra domestikovanosti garan-
stuff is gone. And sure enough, the most valuable things were sold tuje zveti ivotn osobn zjme-
within the first 30 minutes. By 10am there wasnt much left to offer. no apodobn nesmysly
Nothing that was worth anything, anyway. The buyers who arrived
The crocodile that attacked
late looked alittle disappointed. We tried to explain to them that
my girlfriend was at least
itsnot really our fault. They should have come earlier. four meters long. g ostatn byli
vrazn del
Sarah found herself talking to two guys who seemed pretty upset.
Iactually heard one of them call her acheater. Ifelt alittle guilty Iwaved at my favorite crocodile,
who was busy chewing on
for letting these people down, but Iwasnt going to apologize. afat pelican. g vm, kter je
Imean, itsnot like Im ever going to see them again. Aweek from mj oblben krokodl
now, Ill be along way away. As for Sarah, the right thing for me (bez toho, ebych zjioval zda
to dowould have been to walk over there and stand up for her. prv sevkv pelikna)
But Iwas sure she could handle herself. Also, shed feel humiliated Mon jste si vimli, edodat-
to have me come to her help. It would make her look weak and kov vty bvaj narozdl odvt
she hates that. Shesastrong enough woman to deal with those upesujcch oddlen rkou - je
guys on her own. to pomrn logick, etina vak
tuto distinkci nezn
Things have been so slow since about 11 that at point
Iconsidered putting my old cameras out there. But Ithink Ill
leave them in the basement for now. Ivebeen collecting them for
years and selling them on awhim is something that Iwould come
to regret. It doesnt look like were going to make awhole lot of
money, but thatsok. What we need to doright now is get rid of
as much of this junk as possible so we dont have to bring it with
us all the way to Georgia.

j pes osmdest/ Iput on alot of weight IN MY Iran into agirl Iknew, Mary, one day at pro zatek pln sta, kdy si GET zaijete
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EARLY THIRTIES no it was IN MY LATE the mall. We got to talking and she told jako SLOVESO ZMNY (get well soon brzo
TWENTIES actually kdy mi bylo nco mlo me that she was going to Europe. se uzdrav/ its getting dark zan bt tma)
pes ticet vlastn to bylo ped tictkou. aostatn spojen, jako napklad zde uveden
NEURIT LEN dostaten zastupuje zjmy avelmi uiten get to talking (dt se do ei),
vsouvislosti spopisem vku pouku jet na eskho JEDNA/ NJAK (one/ some girl)
sloveso TURN, jeho anglitina vyuv vsitua- se budete uit vcemn jako slovka, tedy bez
anen zde zapoteb vztanho zjmena: agirl vztahu kjinm gramatickm zkonitostem.
cch kde etina marn mtr po pesnm ekvi- (which/who/that) Iknew, kde WHICH by bylo
valentu: whats so great about turning thirty? asem vm do sebe zane vechno zapadat,
patn, WHO zbyten tkopdn, THAT by obzvlt pokud si pouvn GET vbudete
co je tak asnho na tom, kdy je vm najednou obstlo, ale obejdeme se ibez nj
ticet/ doshnete tictky/ oslavte tictku, poctiv hldat
atak na pdavn jmno MIDDLE-AGED, ze zkuenosti vte, e GET se pouv vmnoha
znm koncept MIDLIFE CRISIS aspojen BE rznch gramatickch ivznamovch konstruk- We got to talking and she told me that she
RETIRED, ve lep ne alternativy: amiddle- cch, znich nm jde hlava kolem. pokud knim was going to Europe and asked me if Iwas
aged man aman in middle age/ he seems to be pipoteme hovorov pouit, kde se rzn ms interested in joining her.
going through amidlife crisis he has crisis of apekrvaj spojen sING tvary ainfinitivy: get
mme zde hned nkolik zajmavch jev: 1.
middle age/ my dad is apensioner my dad has the thing working/ get him to work, nen divu, e
SOUSLEDNOST asov: minul asked atedy
retired, is retired mnoz studenti zcela rezignuj na snahu pocho-
posunut was interested; 2. sloveso JOIN znme
pit jeho smysl agramatick zaazen.
jako pidat se knkomu, ale problmy nm in
 And now my daughter Olga,
who has just returned from
boarding school, will read
another nice little story.
g m dcera Olga, kter se
mimochodem prv vrtila
My friends didnt think what
Isaid was insulting but the guy
who went to boarding school
jumped up and punched me in
the gut. g prv ten adn jin
Nejastjm omylem eskch
student omylem sesilnm uir-
voucm potencilem je pouvn
vztanch vt sezjmenem what
the window what you broke
the meal what Iate
all what happened
Opakuju, what nen vztan z-
jmeno. Obraty something what/
nothing what/ all what/ every-
thing what vanglitin narozdl
odjejich eskch protjk nee-
xistuj
vechno, co jsi zatm vidl g eve-
rything what/ everything (that)
youveseen
jedin co jsem udlal bylo ejsem
seusml g everything what Idid
was smile / all I did was smile
R The California of today has no-
thing what Iowa doesnt have. Ex-
cept smog. g nic, co nem tak
Iowa/ nothing that Iowa doesnt
have (nothing Iowa doesnt have)
Dvodem pro what takto pou-
vme je zejm. Vhovorov eti-
n seco jako vztan zjmeno po-
uv bn: vechno, co sezatm
stalo/ njak jdlo, co jsem sndl/
ten chlap, co m zmltil
ten telefon, co jsem koupil
g the phone what/ that Ibought
R All what Isaid was, Get your
fat ass out of here, but my boss
totally flipped out. g all that Isaid
was/ all Isaid was
jak tm, e se nepoj spedlokou (join with
them) tak itm, e se jm daj pekldat ijin
esk slovesa: why dont you join us nepised-
ne si?/ co kdybys el snmi?
posledn poznmka je stejn praktick jako ne-
npadn, tedy hodn: vetin bychom uotzky
ohledn zjmu pouili slun zpor (nem
zjem?/ neml bys zjem?), na co ovem
anglitina nehraje: otzka vzporu by byla
hodn nabit aodpovdala by naemu dotazu se
slovem COPAK (copak ty nem zjem?). na
toto pravidlo si dvejte pozor pedevm usloves
WANT aMIND (dont you want tea? dont you
mind if Iclose the door?)
Mary asked me if Iwas interested in joi-
ning her. Isaid yes without even thinking
about it.
R To make alot of money we need Jim, Iwould like you
PSYCH-OUTS
to make something what would
sell better than these top hats. to meet Andrea. An-
g something that would sell
drea, this is Jim. An-
Vevtch, vnich je nutn njak drea is avery good
vztan zjmeno pout (vechno
co nam ztch polic spadlo) po- friend of mine. Shes
uvejte pokud mono that. Toto from Scotland but she
pravidlo pedpokld schopnost
vydlit znj vty doplkov (tedy speaks English, too.
tet typ: moje dcera, kter seod-
mt uit hrt achy), ale zkue- caught off guard/ 1 of 3
nost mi k, etyto vty doke-
kdo ti ekl, e jsem tady?
me intuitivn identifikovat apou-
t v nich jedno zdvojice which/ zle na tom?
who (obvykle which, v polovin jenom bych rda vdla,
ppad chybn, ale nememe jestli to byl Jack
chtt vechno)
kdybych ti to ekl,
Everyone, come over here. Ifinally vyhodili by m
invented something that works.
g nco co funguje tak jo, budeme si dl lht
Isuppose if it makes Mom happy, nemusela jsi sem chodit
thats all that really matters. S fire | keep | matter | wonder
gjedin, naem opravdu zle
Gail wants me to take responsi-
bility for everything that went
wrong in our relationship.
Shes visiting for
g vecko co sepokazilo aweek. Anyway, Iwas
Ve vtch druhho typu, kter ob-
wondering if maybe
sahuj dva zkladn aktry pouije- youd like to have din-
te bu taky that anebo jet lpe
nic: vechno, co jsi pomn hodila;
ner with us some day
hlavnmi aktry dje jsou vechno before she leaves?
aty, naopak j jsem pouze pasv- Or maybe go out for
nm terem a(nejen) zgramatic-
kho hlediska podrun adrink? You would?
Idoeverything Ican to make Oh.
you feel welcome in this house
but nothing Iever dois good
caught off guard/ 2 of 3
enough. gnic ztoho, co udlm
This is the first time in my life Im vm, mohla jsem zase
doing something (that) Im actu- zstat doma
ally good at. g nco, co mi fakt jde
mla jsi mi otom ct
You dont expect me to go out and
dance after everything you said, aby ses mohl pipravit?
doyou? g vecko co jsi ekl proto ne
u m nebav sedt doma
jet pl roku adcka
budou pry
S gone | month | more | sick | so that
to e se vanglitin po pedlokch pouv
vdy sloveso vING tvaru plat iupedloek Uh, I Lets see. To-
WITHOUT/ BY. toto duo se vyznauje tm, e
vetin kadmu lenu odpovdaj velmi spe-
days not good. Tomor-
cifick obraty: you cant get ahead BY BEING rows no good, either.
nice to people TM, E bude klidem mil to
nikam nedothne, HEZKM CHOVNM/ she Saturday doesnt work
broke my camera BY DROPPING it and spilling
adrink on it rozbila fok TM, E j spadnul
for me. And shes leav-
avylila na nj pit ing on Sunday. Bum-
WITHOUT nabz jet vce monost pekladu.
to jsem neekl sprvn, take oprava: pomoc
mer. I guess its not
WITHOUT + ING lze pekldat dokonce jet going to work out after
vc uitench eskch gramatickch spojen:
she sat down WITHOUT LOOKING at me all.
ANI BY se podvala, BEZTOHO E BY se
podvala, APITOM se na m ani nepodvala.
pipomenu pro jsem se vvodu opravil: asto