QUESTIONS

1. What is Ben’s job?
2. What is Susan’s job?
3. Who is the most intelligent of the three children?
4. What is Susan’s worst quality?

B. What do we learn in the episode?

5. What’s Ben’s problem with his assistant?
6. Why doesn’t Ben fire his assistant?
7. What does Ben have to tell Brian?
8. What is Susan’s ‘great idea’?
9. How does this idea eventually end up?
10. According to Susan, what is the most important item for a tour guide?
11. Who is sitting in the sofa, ‘studying’ with Janey? Tom, Brian or Mark
12. How did Nick’s first day go?
13. Ben says about his assistant: “I sacked him with …”
14. Why does Janey have all these dates?
15. In his difficulty to talk to Janey, what does Ben call his daughter?
16. Why does Brian call Ben ‘dad’?
17. Susan told Nick to ‘use his initiative’. What does he do?
18. Who is Ramon Man Lucas really?
19. What does Brian give Janey?
20. Brian was supposed to give her something else. What?

C. What do we learn about the language?

21. Nick says: “I’ll just wing it.” What does this idiom mean?
22. Nick “got sacked”. What does this expression mean?
23. Susan says of her daughter that she is “playing the field”. What does this phrase mean?
24. Nick says to Susan: “Did I drop you in it?” What does this mean?
25. Two phrases from the episode. What do they mean – use the Cambridge dictionary online: smooching, useless layabout

D. Can we look up something on the internet?

The Official My Family Website.

26. Watch clips: Click on the second clip: ‘Parisian Beauty’. In this clip Nick gives Michael a guided tour of his room. According to Nick, what is VERY important when you stay in his room?
27. The Cast: In which children’s film have we seen Zoe Wanamaker (Susan Harper)? What was her character in that film?
28. The Cast: Gabriel Thomson plays Michael, the youngest of the Harper family, but in which major Hollywood film did he appear?

General Googling.

29. In the episode they talk about ‘Oxbridge’. What is this?
30. What is ‘Tourette’s syndrome’?