QUESTIONS

1. Look at the office map, and complete the following sentences with the correct preposition of place:
   • Keith is sitting ...Emma.
   • Tim is sitting ... Gareth.
   • Brent’s office is ... of the workplace.
   • The kitchen is ... two store rooms.
   • Dawn’s place is ... of the meeting room.
2. Look at the map. Which side of London is Slough?
3. What is Gareth obsessed with ? (he can’t stop talking about it)

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4. You may have noticed David’s nervous tic. What does he always do when he’s a bit nervous?
5. What does Dawn insinuate (about Brent) at the beginning of the episode, when she adds ‘… and every lunchtime.’ ?
6. What’s Brent’s “special filing cabinet” for faxes from Head Office ?
7. Who did Gareth go to the pub with ?
8. What does Tim think about his job ?
9. What’s Jennifer’s message at the meeting ?
10. Billy Bigmouth doesn’t work. What’s wrong with him ?
11. What has Tim done to Gareth’s stapler ?
12. According to Gareth, what’s wrong with the leadership of the office ?
13. How does Brent manage to get Dawn off her lunch ('nice piece of Brie') ?
14. In the introduction we could read that ‘… Gareth thinks he is very important…’ . Which scene proves this point?
15. HEALTH & SAFETY… Gareth gives 2 reasons why Tim shouldn’t do what he’s doing: 1. blocking out light / 2. misuse of company files
    What’s Tim doing?
16. As a practical joke, what does Brent accuse Dawn of? What are the consequences?

LANGUAGE SITUATIONS

17. Brent says: “I know you’re perfick” • What’s ‘perfick’?
18. Brent says: “Every bloke at the office has woken up at the crack of Dawn”.
    • What does ‘the crack of dawn’ mean?
    • How is it meant here?
19. Correct Brent’s language mistakes:
    • ‘Did no get an agenda.'
    • ‘Did I no want to hear that.’
20. What is ‘wassup’ ?
21. Follow-up Question 11:
    • ‘It’s only a trifling matter’
    • ‘… put him in custard-ly’
    Work out why these two sentences are funny jokes.
22. Sanj calls himself a ‘Paki’. What’s wrong with that word?

THE OFFICE WEBSITE

23. What does the site say about Jennifer Taylor Clarke from Head Office ?
24. In "ricky and stephen's definitive guide to the office", you can read why Gareth likes Brent so much. Write down the answer.
25. In the same guide, you can read what Keith's favourite dish is. (click other characters 1) What's this dish ?
26. In this guide you can also read what sort of place Slough is. What does it say ?
27. In "office induction: all about episodes, places and people", you can find out what happens further episodes. What happens in Episode 2 ?
28. We only hear Chris Finch (Finchy) on Brent’s answering machine. In the same induction, you’ll find Finchy’s ‘great achievement’. What is it?

GENERAL INTERNET

29. During the episode you learn about ‘Comic Relief’ and ‘EastEnders’.
    These two items are relatively unknown outside Britain.
    Go on the web and find out what these two items are.
    • Comic Relief
    • EastEnders

Writing assignment.
The writing-part of this assignment is about the private lives of our main characters.
You choose one of these four characters and you write about what their private live can/could be. Of course you’ll have to use your imagination, because you know NOTHING about these people’s personal lives.

This is what you have to write about:

• How old, do you think, are they?
• Where/How do they live?
• What does their house/flat look like?
• Do they have hobbies? What are they?
• Do they have a partner or not?
• Are they married, just living together, or single?
• If they have a partner: What do they look like? What are they like?
• If they are single: What’s their ‘type’?
• How do they spend their holidays?
• Do they go out at weekends? Y: Where do they go? N: What do they do?