A course for upper intermediate students by David Nicholls

Grammar, vocabulary, comprehension and discussion for the hit US thriller ‘Westworld’. Watch the
show, complete the exercises, check your answers, and then retell the plot.
 Westworld

Episode 1

Characters

Dolores (main 'host')

Teddy (Dolores' lover)
Abernathy (Dolores' father)
Bernard (Chief programmer in the park)
Ford (creator of the robots)
Mr Sizemore (script writer)
Man in Black (violent player)
Ms Cullen (executive in Westworld)

Comprehension

1) Describe Westworld.
2) Why does the security team go down to sublevel 83?
3) What do they find there?
4) Why does the company want to pull 200 robots out of Westworld?
5) What does Dolores's father find in the field?
6) Why is Mr Sizemore not happy about the updates which the robots keep having?
7) What’s the next problem for Bernard?
8) What is the violent man dressed in black trying to find?
9) What did Dolores's father tell Mr Ford? What is Mr Ford's explanation for this aberrant
behaviour?
10) Who is the oldest host in the park?

Match the words in the two columns to make phrases from the show
disarray wander
inconsistencies honourable
chivalrous discrepancies
roam honourable
stay put! movements
outcome meeting
encounter result
gratify tense
gestures don’t move
purge abnormal
rebel satisfy
uptight defy
aberrant destroy
unscripted bring back to life
depraved conscious
sentient praise
flatter perverted
resurrect unplanned
wisdom spoil
indulge wrongdoing
sins experience

Put the words on the left in the following sentences

1) Do you ever feel like there are _____ in your world?

2) Don’t mind me. I’m just trying to look _____.
3) Some people prefer to see the ugliness and _____. But I prefer to see the beauty
4) Daddy wouldn’t let the cattle _____ this close to dark.
5) What if I told you, Dolores, that there were no chance _____?
6) You were built to _____ the desires of those who pay to visit your world.
7) The old _____ were just generic movements. These are tied to specific memories.
8) The memories are _____ at the end of every narrative loop.
9) He’s exhibiting some kind of _____ behaviour.
10) If you had kids you would know that they all _____ eventually.
11) Please, forgive the security team for being so _____.
12) If there is so much as an _____ sneeze, I want to know about it.
13) And here I thought that you were only good at writing _____little fantasies.
14) I _____ myself that we were taking a more disciplined approach.
15) We can cure all diseases and one fine day we may even _____ the dead.
16) There's a lot of ____ in ancient cultures.
17) You're all here ____ your vices, so I figured I would indulge mine.
18) You are in a prison of your own _____.

Grammar

FIRST CONDITIONAL: IF + PRESENT SIMPLE / WILL or WON’T (or modal verb) +

infinitive

Use first conditional to talk about likely situations in the present.

SECOND CONDITIONAL: IF + PAST SIMPLE / WOULD or WOULDN’T (or modal

verb) + infinitive

Use second conditional to talk about unlikely situations in the present.

THIRD CONDITIONAL: IF + PAST PERFECT / WOULD or WOULDN’T (or modal
verb) + HAVE + 3rd form

Use third conditional to talk about unlikely situations in the past.

CONDITIONALS VIDEO COURSE

Put the following sentences into different conditional forms:

1) If I _____ you that your reality were fake in some kind of way, would you believe me?
(tell)
2) You would know that kids all rebel eventually if you _____ your own. (have)
3) If I came across as depraved, I _____ to apologize. (like)
4) Sentient life would never have evolved if there _____ any mistakes. (not be)
5) If you _____ some glaring inconsistencies in reality, how will you react? (notice)
6) Had Mr Ford not added an update, the hosts _____. (not malfunction)
7) If the hosts _____ aberrant behaviour, they would not have been repaired. (not
demonstrate)
8) If the hosts try and kill a player, the player _____. (die)

Discussion questions

Do you ever feel like there are inconsistencies in your world? Strange or uncanny
repetitions?
If I told you that your reality were fake in some kind of way, would you believe me?
Did you rebel as a teenager? Why do the youth feel a need to rebel?
In what kind of situations do you feel uptight?
Do you agree that evolution has forged the entirety of sentient life through an
accumulation of mistakes?
Do you think that one day in the distant future we will be able to cure all diseases? What
about resurrect the dead?
Would you like to indulge your vices in Westworld? If you were there, what would you
do?
If scientists do ever manage to create sentient life, what kind of responsibilities would
they have for their creation?

Answers:

1) It’s a place in which the inhabitants have been created in order to gratify the desires of
‘the newcomers’. The ‘newcomers’ are people who pay to visit this world and act out all
their fantasies. The ‘newcomers’ cannot be killed in this world. The inhabitants are
programmed with specific gestures, and their memories are purged at the end of each day.
2) Because there has been some ‘unscheduled activity’. Evidently, one of the ‘creatures’
(robots) is restless. So, as a safety precaution, an armed security team go down to
investigate.
3) They find the creator of the robots talking to one of them.
4) Because some of the robots start to show ‘aberrant behaviour’. This will be difficult
because they have literally hundreds of intertwined narratives for their park.
5) He finds a photo of someone in a modern city which perplexes him.
6) Firstly, because there has been a problem recently with ‘aberrant behaviour’ and
secondly, because he thinks the guests don’t want hosts who seem ‘real’. He believes the
place works because we understand that the hosts aren’t real. If they become too real, the
fantasy land doesn’t work.
7) One of the hosts starts acting out things which are not on the script. While the hosts are
allowed ‘minor improvisations’ this is not a minor improvisation. He kills another host in
an odd manner.
8) He is convinced that there is 'a deeper level to the game' hidden somewhere, and he
believes the Indian guy is going to help him find it.
9) He seems to have malfunctioned. He tells him that he will have revenge on his maker.
He also tells him that he is living in a prison of his own sins. Mr Ford suspects that this
host is simply repeating lines from former characters who he played in the park. One of
these characters liked to quote Shakespeare and John Donne.
10) Dolores is the oldest host in the park

disarray disorder
inconsistencies discrepancies
chivalrous honourable
roam wander
stay put! don’t move!
outcome result
encounter meeting
gratify satisfy
gestures movements
purge destroy
rebel defy
uptight tense
aberrant abnormal
unscripted unplanned
depraved perverted
sentient conscious
flatter praise
resurrect bring back to life
wisdom experience
indulge spoil
sins wrongdoing

1) Do you ever feel like there are inconsistencies in your world?

2) Don’t mind me. I’m just trying to look chivalrous.
3) Some people prefer to see the ugliness and disarray. But I prefer to see the beauty
4) Daddy wouldn’t let the cattle roam this close to dark.
5) What if I told you, Dolores, that there were no chance encounters?
6) You were built to gratify the desires of those who pay to visit your world.
7) The old gestures were just generic movements. These are tied to specific memories.
8) The memories are purged at the end of every narrative loop.
9) He’s exhibiting some kind of aberrant behaviour.
10) If you had kids you would know that they all rebel eventually.
11) Please, forgive the security team for being so uptight.
12) If there is so much as an unscripted sneeze, I want to know about it.
13) And here I thought that you were only good at writing depraved little fantasies.
14) I flattered myself that we were taking a more disciplined approach.
15) We can cure all diseases and one fine day we may even resurrect the dead.
16) There's a lot of wisdom in ancient cultures.
17) You're all here indulging your vices, so I figured I would indulge mine.
18) You are in a prison of your own sins.

1) If I told you that your reality were fake in some kind of way, would you believe me?
2) You would know that kids all rebel eventually if you had your own.
3) If I came across as depraved, I would like to apologize.
4) Sentient life would never have evolved if there had never been any mistakes.
5) If you notice some glaring inconsistencies in reality, how will you react?
6) Had Mr Ford not added an update, the hosts would not have malfunctioned.
7) If the hosts hadn't demonstrated aberrant behaviour, they wouldn't have been repaired.
8) If the hosts try and kill a player, the player won't die.
 Westworld
Episode 2

Characters

Dolores (main host)

Teddy (Dolores' lover)
Abernathy (Dolores' father)
Maeve Millay (the madam)
Clementine (the prostitute)
Walter (a host 'baddie')
Logan (New guest at park)
William (New guest at park)
Mr Sizemore (script writer)

Comprehension

1) How does one have a more intense adventure in Westworld?

2) What does the man in black do at the beginning?
3) Why is Bernard still concerned about the level of damage suffered by Abernathy?
4) Why do they decide to recall Mariposa?
5) What shocking event happens in the restaurant?
6) Why does William refuse Clementine's offer?
7) Describe what the mysterious man in black gets up to
8) Who does Mr Ford meet in Westworld?
9) What's happens to Maeve?
10) What does Mr Ford think of Mr Sizewell's new narrative?

Match the words in the two columns to make phrases from the show

social up
give me your time
take a break
a contagious anxiety
bottoms disease/condition
an eloquent speaker
play sins
burned in performance
a decline at the stake
rape your memory
jog and pillage
Seven deadly some feathers
ruffle god

Put the collocations in the following sentences

1) Do you often experience social _____?

2) Please, don't rush. Take your _____. There's no hurry
3) Abernathy's condition could be _____, in which case Dolores may also have a
problem.
4) Is that all you can muster, Lawrence? You used to be a little more _____.
5) He was a thirteenth century monk who would have us burned at the _____ were he still
alive today.
6) There has been a _____ in Mariposa's performance.
7) We wouldn't want anything to disturb our guests from their rape and _____.
8) I guess we're gonna have to find a way to _____ your memory.
9) Your decision not to use Mr Sizewell's new story may _____ some feathers among the
board members.

Grammar – Gerunds and Infinitives

Use GERUNDS:
As the subject of the sentence
After prepositions
After certain verbs (admit, deny, consider, regret, suggest, recommend etc..)
Use to + infinitive:
To express purpose (in order to)
After adjectives
After certain verbs

Use infinitives (without to):

After modal verbs
After make, let and help

GERUND AND INFINITIVE VIDEO COURSE

Fill in the following sentences with gerunds or infinitives, as well as an appropriate verb:

1) You can't _____ God without being acquainted with the devil.
2) We wouldn't want anything _____ our guests from their rape and pillage.
3) Can we finish _____, before we shoot anyone?
4) You are welcome _____ me on this walk.
5) Is that all you can muster, Lawrence? You used _____ a little more eloquent.
6) I guess we're gonna have to find a way _____ your memory.
7) When they talk to each other it's a way of _____.
8) Your decision not _____ Mr Sizewell's new story may ruffle some feathers among the
board members.

Discussion questions

Do you often experience social anxiety? Or panic attacks?

If you went to Westworld, would you stay in the centre, or venture out to the perimeter?
Do you think Mr Ford and Bernard are playing God?
Can you think of anyone famous who was burned at the stake? Why did this happen?
Do you agree that only boring people get bored?
Can you name at least 5 of the seven deadly sins? Would you like to add any more?
What do you think dreams are? Are they basically memories?
Answers:

1) The further out from the centre that you go, the more intense the experience gets.
2) He rescues a man called Lawrence just before he is hanged (for murder). But then he
demands that he help him find the deepest level of the game. A part he calls 'the maze',
and the maze was actually drawn onto the inside of the Indians scalp.
3) He believes that the discovery of the photo can't have caused the level of damage that
they found in Abernathy. He even suspects sabotage.
4) Because there has been a sharp decline in her performance.
5) An old guy who William has helped approaches and offers to show the guys a map.
However, Logan is bored and decides to stab the old man with a knife. William seems
disturbed.
6) He says that he is in love with someone real.
7) He kills all of Lawrence's cousins, and his wife (in front of their own daughter) and
then the daughter tells him how he can get onto the next level of the game.
8) He meets a young boy. He entertains him by stopping a rattlesnake in mid attack.
9) She dreams again of being with her daughter; however, the dream soon turns into a
nightmare where they are running away from violent Indians. Afterwards, the man in
black turns up to kill her.
10) He doesn't like it. He want to use a new, original storyline.

social anxiety
give me a break
take your time
a contagious disease/condition
bottoms up
an eloquent speaker
play god
burned at the stake
a decline in performance
rape and pillage
jog your memory
Seven deadly sins
ruffle some feathers

Put the collocations in the following sentences

1) Do you often experience social anxiety?

2) Please, don't rush. Take your time. There's no hurry
3) Abernathy's condition could be contagious, in which case Dolores may also have a
problem.
4) Is that all you can muster, Lawrence? You used to be a little more eloquent.
5) He was a thirteenth century monk who would have us burned at the stake were he still
alive today.
6) There has been a decline in Mariposa's performance.
7) We wouldn't want anything to disturb our guests from their rape and pillage.
8) I guess we're gonna have to find a way to jog your memory.
9) Your decision not to use Mr Sizewell's new story may ruffle some feathers among the
board members.

Gerunds and Infinitives

1) You can't play God without being acquainted with the devil.
2) We wouldn't want anything to disturb our guests from their rape and pillage.
3) Can we finish eating, before we shoot anyone?
4) You are welcome to join me on this walk.
5) Is that all you can muster, Lawrence? You used to be a little more eloquent.
6) I guess we're gonna have to find a way to jog your memory.
7) When they talk to each other it's a way of practising.
8) Your decision not to use Mr Sizewell's new story may ruffle some feathers among the
board members.
 Westworld
Episode 3

Characters

Dolores (main host)

Teddy (Dolores' lover)
Abernathy (Dolores' father)
Maeve Millay (the madam)
Clementine (the prostitute)
Wyatt (new character, a sergeant)
Logan (New guest at park)
William (New guest at park)
Bernard Lowe (Chief programmer)
Ms Cullen (executive in Westworld)
Stubbs (Security guy)
Arnold (Former partner of Mr Ford)

Comprehension

1) What book does Bernard ask Dolores to read aloud?

2) What does Dolores find in the drawer one morning?
3) What happens to William at the start?
4) When they analyse the aberrant behaviour of Walter, what do they find so strange?
5) What has happened to one of the hosts?
6) What kind of memory does Mr Ford give Teddy?
7) Why aren't all the hosts able to use weapons?
8) Who does Teddy track down?
9) What is odd about the imaginary person who Walter speaks to?
10) What did Mr Ford's old partner, Arnold, want to achieve with the hosts?
11) Why does Mr Ford remind Bernard that the hosts are not conscious?
12) What happens to Dolores having spoken to Bernard?
13) What happens when they find the stray host?

Match the words in the two columns to make phrases from the show
a personal a grudge
To throw s.t host
To hold question
A stray into disarray
To handle cover
Bones and hunter
A bounty flesh
take a weapon
To back sense
To feel second
To weigh ashamed
A split heavily on
To make out

Put the collocations in the following sentences

1) We've been talking for some time, and I haven't asked you a _____ question.
2) He has carved out a huge swath of the park and thrown half of the existing storylines
into _____.
3) All six of these hosts appeared in story lines where they killed Walter. It's like he was
holding a _____.
4) One of the hosts has gone _____. We need to send security to get him back.
5) Only one of these guys is authorized to _____ a weapon.
6) Wyatt is a mercenary. He forces his men to wear the _____ and flesh of their enemies.
7) I wasn't always a _____ hunter. I did a stint in the army a few years back.
8) I'm not backing _____ now that I've come this far.
9) It neither gets cold nor feels _____. It doesn't feel a solitary thing unless it's told to.
10) I know that the death of your son Charlie still weighs _____ on you.
11) Sometimes, when I wake up, for a _____ second I forget where I am, and when I am.
12) It doesn't make _____. Why would he carve Orion?
Reporting verbs

Here are some typical verb patterns

1) Want to do (+ to + infinitive) promise, threaten, offer

2) Tell s.o to do (object + to + infinitive) ask, warn, advise
3) Congratulate s.o on doing (object + preposition + gerund) accuse s.o (of) thank s.o for
4) Avoid doing (+ gerund) deny, admit, regret, suggest, recommend
5) Insist on doing (+ preposition + gerund) apologise for
6) Say that (+ that + clause) promise, insist, suggest, deny, admit, recommend
7) Tell s.o that assure, persuade, convince, warn, advise (NOT ask)

REPORTING VERBS VIDEO COURSE (6 lessons)

Put the following sentences into reported speech, using the reporting verbs.

1) Nobody shoot, or I'll send her to unction!

The bandit warned..
2) Are you sure I can't tempt you inside?
Clementine insisted..
3) If there is a problem, tell me!
Ms Cullen suggested..
4) I'm sorry, I just can't pull the trigger.
Dolores apologised..
5) I'm going to come back for you, someday soon.
Teddy promised..
6) You mustn't believe that they are conscious Bernard.
Mr Ford persuaded..
7) Shoot when you see or hear anything, and without hesitation.
Teddy suggested..

More reporting verb exercises

Discussion questions
Have you ever felt like spontaneously going somewhere completely new, and building a
new life? Where would you go if you did this?
Do you agree that 'the coward dies a thousand deaths whereas the valiant taste of death
but once'?
Do you agree that all great stories are rooted in truth?
Do you agree that weapons privileges need to be doled out selectively?
Do you hold any grudges?

Answers:

1) He gives her Alice in Wonderland.

2) First she finds a gun, and she remembers a time when the man in black was cruel to
her. Then, when she looks in the drawer again, the gun has disappeared
3) He has a gun fight, and gets shot. We find out that even though they can't get killed,
they can 'get shot' (perhaps a small pellet). He kills the attacker and saves Clementine.
His friend Logan sees the result, and he is impressed. We also learn the Logan's sister is
going to marry William.
4) Firstly, he has a conversation with himself. Secondly, he killed six hosts, but let the
other three go (of course, all of this was unscripted, and this is why it's 'aberrant'
behaviour). Coincidentally, all the hosts he killed had killed him in previous narratives.
He seemed to have been bearing a grudge and taking revenge.
5) One of the hosts has gone stray. They send security to get him back. Later we find out
it was the woodcutter, and while he is missing his friends get stuck in a loop.
6) He gives him a memory about a man named Wyatt as part of his new narrative.
7) The security guy tells us that 'weapons privileges need to be doled out selectively'.
8) Teddy tracks down Wyatt.
9) Walter speaks to 'Arnold', which is the same name as the imaginary person Abernathy
was talking to. Later, we learn this is the name of Mr Ford's old partner when he first
started creating the hosts.
10) He wanted to create consciousness. He believed that if he programmed voices into
their heads, it would be possible to produce a sentient being.
11) She goes back to the game, but this time she is able to shoot one of her attackers, and
go way off her script. She hears a voice in her head before she shoots.
12) The stray host is down a hole. They try and put him in sleep mode, but he wakes up
when Stubbs tries to remove his head (He claimed it was easier to get him out by
removing the head. He also explained that the head was enough for them to use to
reproduce the rest). When he wakes he behaves aggressively, but in the end he just
smashes a rock into his own head, effectively 'killing' himself.
a personal question
To throw s.t into disarray
To hold A grudge
A stray host
To handle A weapon
Bones and flesh
A bounty hunter
take cover
To back out
To feel ashamed
To weigh heavily on
A split second
To make sense

1) We've been talking for some time, and I haven't asked you a personal question.
2) He has carved out a huge swath of the park and thrown half of the existing storylines
into disarray.
3) All six of these hosts appeared in story lines where they killed Walter. It's like he was
holding a grudge.
4) One of the hosts has gone stray. We need to send security to get him back.
5) Only one of these guys is authorized to handle a weapon.
6) Wyatt is a mercenary. He forces his men to wear the bones and flesh of their enemies.
7) I wasn't always a bounty hunter. I did a stint in the army a few years back.
8) I'm not backing out now that I've come this far.
9) It neither gets cold nor feels ashamed. It doesn't feel a solitary thing unless it's told to.
10) I know that the death of your son Charlie still weighs heavily on you.
11) Sometimes, when I wake up, for a split second I forget where I am, and when I am.
12) It doesn't make sense. Why would he carve Orion?
1) Nobody shoot, or I'll send her to unction!
The bandit warned them not to shoot or he would send her to unction.
2) Are you sure I can't tempt you inside?
Clementine insisted that William come inside.
3) If there is a problem, tell me!
Ms Cullen suggested telling her if there were a problem.
4) I'm sorry, I just can't pull the trigger.
Dolores apologised for not being able to pull the trigger.
5) I'm going to come back for you, someday soon.
Teddy promised to come back for Dolores someday soon.
6) You mustn't believe that they are conscious Bernard.
Mr Ford persuaded Bernard not to believe the hosts were conscious.
7) Shoot when you see or hear anything, and without hesitation.
Teddy suggested shooting when they saw or heard anything.
 Westworld

Episode 4

Characters

Dolores (main host)

Teddy (Dolores' lover)
Abernathy (Dolores' father)
Maeve Millay (the madam)
Clementine (the prostitute)
Wyatt (new character, a sergeant)
Logan (New guest at park)
William (New guest at park)
Bernard Lowe (Chief programmer)
Ms Cullen (executive in Westworld)
Stubbs (Security guy)
Arnold (Former partner of Mr Ford)

Comprehension

1) What kind of game does Bernard suggest playing?

2) What kind of memories does Maeve (the madam) keep having?
3) Why is the rock carving definitely NOT Orion's belt?
4) Who does the mysterious man in black meet?
5) Who is again showing aberrant behaviour?
6) Why does another man thank the mysterious man in black?
7) What does the man in black tell us about Arnold?
8) Who is the last man on the hit list of the girl with the snake tattoo?
9) How does Mr Ford mildly threaten Miss Cullen?
10) What do Logan and William argue about?
11) What did the outlaw tell Maeve about?

Vocabulary
a maze (a labyrinth)

on the tip of your tongue (idiom. When you can almost remember something)

sins (violation of god's law)

to have a lot on one's plate (to be too busy)

A glitch (a small fault)

a deviation (a divergence)

a herd (a group of cows)

slaughter (killing)

to get it over with (to get something finished as soon as possible)

to track s.o down (to find s.o)

a massive endeavour (a huge project)

to delay indefinitely (to put s.t off for an unknown period)

to hold a dim view of (to look down on)

sentimental (sensitive and emotional)

to be outnumbered (to not have enough men)

foolhardy (foolish)

to gag s.o (to stop someone talking with a rag)

Complete the sentences with the new vocab

1) The goal is to get to the centre of the ____.

2) Have you ever had something on the ____ of your tongue, only to have it slip away.
3) We all have a lot on our ____ at the moment, so it's best that your department took
over.
4) This is clearly not a ____. There is a pattern of behaviour emerging.
5) Some of the hosts are making big ____ from the script.
6) It never occurred to me that we were bringing the herd back for the ____.
7) Lawrence's last words were '____ it over with'.
8) She is ____ down the man who is believed to have killed her parents.
9) Clearly the new narrative is a massive _____.
10) Arnold was always known to have held a ____ view of real people.

Grammar

PERFECT GERUND and PERFECT INFINITIVE

to have done (3rd) = PERFECT INFINITIVE

having done (3rd) = PERFECT GERUND

1) PERFECT INFINITIVE
a) We often see perfect infinitive with the following verbs:

claim, seem, hope, expect, hate, (would) like, love, prefer pretend, be believed

remember that it is similar to perfect tenses

He claimed to have met her before (=He claimed he had met her before)
We hope to have finished it by tomorrow (=We hope we will have finished it by
tomorrow)

b) We often see perfect infinitive after adjectives

I’m glad to have read this

I’m disappointed not to have seen this earlier

c) Sometimes they are used at the beginning of a sentence for emphasis, especially in
third conditional constructions.

To have seen them live in concert would have been great!

d) Lastly, they are very often seen in passive constructions.
The murderer is believed to have entered the building here

2) PERFECT GERUND
a) We often see perfect gerunds at the beginning of clauses (perfect participles), and they
emphasize that an action was completed before another action:

Having had breakfast, I took a shower

b) We also see perfect gerunds after prepositions:

He confessed to having killed the girl

c) We also see perfect gerunds after certain verbs:

I regret having done that

YOUTUBE LESSONS FOR PERFECT GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

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Use perfect gerunds and infinitives in the following sentences:

1) _____ hand rolled on the ample thighs of exotic women, these are the finest cigars a
man can enjoy. (be)
2) Lawrence was accused of _____several of the sheriff's men. (shoot)
3) She claimed _____ attacked when she was only 7 years old. (be)
4) Miss Cullen remembered _____ to Westworld as a child. (come)
5) She also admitted to _____ her job at Westworld (not enjoy)
6) Miss Cullen was furious _____ threatened by Mr Ford (be)
7) _____herself open, she removed a bullet from her unscarred body. (cut)
8) Arnold is believed _____ in the park. (die)

Discussion
1) If you were able to purge your painful memories, would you choose to do so? Or is
there something positive about them?
2) Do you ever feel like there is something wrong with your world?
3) Do you believe in free will? Or do you believe that no choice you have ever made has
actually been your own?
4) Do you hold a dim view of people in general?

Answers

Complete the sentences with the new vocab

1) He suggests playing a game called 'the maze' and the goal is to get to the centre of it. If
she can do this, maybe she can be free.
2) She keeps having memories of the men who operate on the bodies and repair the hosts
for the following day. They look like they are wearing space suits. She discovers pictures
of men in space suits stashed away under one of her floor boards.
3) Because the carving shows 3 stars, but there are 4 in Orion's belt.
4) He meets a mysterious woman with a snake tattoo. He still wants to find out how 'how
the story ends.'
5) Dolores is deviating from the script. She talks to a girl who draws a map of the maze
on the floor. And she also claims that her father is dead
6) Another 'player' thanks him for literally saving his sisters life, and he tells him he is
such an admirer. The man in black responds with the threat 'one more word and I'll cut
your throat! This is my vacation!'
7) He knows about him. He says that he was the original creator of the park, and that he
died in the park. Mr Ford told us the same in the last episode.
8) The last man is Wyatt. She claimed to have been attacked by him and a group of
bandits when she was only 7 years old.
9) He explains that he is a god in the world he has created. He knows everything about
Miss Cullen as she was a guest at Westworld as a child. And anyway, he knows
everything about his employees. He even knows that Bernard and Miss Cullen are having
a relationship. So, he warns her not to get in his way (concerning his new narrative)
10) They argue about where to go next. Logan kills their friend (the bounty hunter) and
this upsets Dolores and William.
11) She showed him her picture of the men wearing spacesuits and asked him what it
was. He told her it was a 'shade' in the native Indian's religion. She asked him what a
'shade' was, and he explained that it is 'the man who walks between worlds. They were
sent from hell to oversee our world.' He also claimed that it was a blessing to be able to
see your masters.

1) The goal is to get to the centre of the maze.

2) Have you ever had something on the tip of your tongue, only to have it slip away.
3) We all have a lot on pour plates at the moment, so it's best that your department took
over.
4) This is clearly not a glitch. There is a pattern of behaviour emerging.
5) Some of the hosts are making big deviations from the script.
6) It never occurred to me that we were bringing the herd back for the slaughter.
7) Lawrence's last words were 'get it over with'.
8) She is tracking down the man who is believed to have killed her parents.
9) Clearly the new narrative is a massive endeavour.
10) Arnold had always held a dim view of real people.

1) Having been hand rolled on the ample thighs of exotic women, these are the finest
cigars a man can enjoy.
2) Lawrence was accused of having shot several of the sheriff's men.
3) She claimed to have been attacked when she was only 7 years old.
4) Miss Cullen remembered having come to Westworld as a child.
5) She also admitted to not having enjoyed her job at Westworld
6) Miss Cullen was furious to have been threatened by Mr Ford
7) Having cut herself open, she removed a bullet from her unscarred body.
8) Arnold is believed to have died in the park.
 Westworld

Episode 5

Characters

Dolores (main host)

Teddy (Dolores' lover)
Abernathy (Dolores' father)
Maeve Millay (the madam)
Clementine (the prostitute)
Wyatt (new character, a sergeant)
Logan (New guest at park)
William (New guest at park)
Bernard Lowe (Chief programmer)
Ms Cullen (executive in Westworld)
Stubbs (Security guy)
Arnold (Former partner of Mr Ford)
El Lazo (Lawrence)
Elsie Hughes (programmer in the behaviour department)

Comprehension

1) What's the saddest thing Mr Ford has ever seen?

2) Where are William, Logan and Dolores?
3) Who can Dolores still remember according to Mr Ford?
4) What is one of the employees and 'butchers' of Westworld up to?
5) Who are the Confederados? What does El Lazo ask William, Dolores and Logan to
do?
6) What happened when they tried to steal the nitroglycerin?
7) How did Elsie Hughes manage to get a look at the woodcutters body? (the one who
smashed his own skull)
8) What did Elsie Hughes find in the body?
9) What did William and Logan argue about?
10) What did Dolores have a vision of while at the orgy?
11) What was El Lazo doing with the nitroglycerin?
12) Why did the Confederados attack William and Logan?
13) Who did the man in black meet at the end of the episode?
14) What happened at the end with Maeve (the madam)?

Vocabulary

to take s.o in (to allow someone to live with you permanently)

a leash (a lead for a dog)

to tear something to pieces.

Fate (destiny)

merciful (compassionate)

to be satisfied with your lot in life (to be content with what one has)

a butcher ( a man who works with meat)

a predicament (a very difficult situation)

trio (3 people)

mercenaries (soldiers of fortune)

to slaughter (to violently kill)

a grudge (a persistent feeling of ill will)

to stick to (to keep to)

to surrender (to give up)

reckless (careless)

weary (tired)
a common misconception (a typical misunderstanding)

to indulge yourself (to spoil yourself)

unravelling (coming apart)

to have a bad/short temper (to get angry quickly)

to create a sense of urgency (to make the situation seem desperate)

to set s.o up (to frame)

a declaration of war (an announement of hositlities)

a sip (a little drink)

a villain (a baddie)

humble (modest)

to talk s.o out of s.t (to dissuade)

Complete the sentences with the new vocab

1) My father decided to ____ in an old greyhound.

2) My brother took off the ____, and in an instant the dog spotted a cat.
3) The man in black asked Lawrence whether he believed in ____.
4) Had you been ____, you would have put a bullet in me.
5) My father told me to be ____ my lot in life.
6) We saved your man slim here, from quite a ____.
7) We'll ____ to the plan. Under no circumstances shall we kill anyone.
8) We're here to protect the young republic from ____ halfwits like you.
9) Your men are ____ and it's a long road ahead. You should rest
10) There's a common ____ that the hosts don't log sexual encounters when they are
underground for reprocessing.
11) Aren't you going to ____ in some of the pleasures on offer?
12) I always felt this place was missing a real villain, hence my ____ contribution.
Grammar

INVERSION:

1) Questions, echo questions, question tags, so/neither

Are you sure? Yes, so am I

You don't know him, do you?
I found it yesterday. Did you? So did I

2) Negative adverbs (At no time, not once, never...)

Never have I seen such a wonderful view

At no time did he offer any help
Under no circumstances should he take any exercise

3) More negative adverbs (No sooner…..than, seldom, rarely, barely, hardly/ scarcely…
when, only, little)

Only later did I learn the truth

Little do you know...
Scarcely had I closed my eyes when I heard the sound of the alarm.

4) 2nd and 3rd conditional

Had I known it was your birthday, I would have bought you a present
Were I a rich man, I would buy myself a yacht

5) So / such

So helpful was he that I tipped him generously

Such a long distance was it, that we decided to take the train
YOUTUBE LESSON: INVERSION

Use inversions in the following sentences with an appropriate auxiliary:

1) No sooner ____ taken off the leash than the dog dashed off chasing a cat. (his brother)
2) Only then ____ learn that Logan was planning on investing in Westworld. (William)
3) ____ been merciful, you would have put a bullet in me. (you)
4) We'll stick to the plan. Under no circumstances ____ kill anyone (we)
5) ____lived in the wild west, I would have been a gunslinger. (I)
6) Little ____ know, the bodies were being filled with nitroglycerin. (they)
7) Scarcely ____ attacked William when Dolores shot all four of them. (the
Confederados)
8) Only later ____ find out that Mr Ford and the man in black were acquaintances. (we)

More exercises for inversion here

Discussion (For negative answers use inversion)

1) Under what circumstances would you rob a wagon full of explosives?

2) If you had lived in the wild west, what would you have done with your life?
3) What do you think our dreams can tell us?
4) Do you do your best to be satisfied with your lot in life? Is it positive or negative to do
so?
5) Do you think it is in the nature of the media to 'create a sense of danger and urgency,
so that they can strip us down to something raw, animalistic and primal'?
6) What do you think gives your own life purpose?
7) Do you think the universe itself has any purpose, or meaning?

Answers

Complete the sentences with the new vocab

1) His father decided to take in a greyhound. One day they took it to the park. In an
instant the dog spotted a cat. No sooner had the dog caught the cat than it tore it to pieces.
2) They have found a new town far from the centre. It is the festival of the dead, and
Dolores sees herself at the festival, and starts to chase herself.
3) She can still remember her creator, Arnold. (Although, Dolores denies being able to do
this when confronted by Mr Ford). She has also been hearing voices
4) One of them was trying to resurrect a small bird (and he managed to) but his friend
came in and had a go at him. (for misappropriating company property)
5) They are a band of mercenaries led by El Lazo. They ask the trio of travellers to steal
some nitroglycerin from the Union army.
6) Logan started fighting one of the Union officers. So, although William and Dolores
planned to kill nobody, they wound up killing all of them.
7) She threatened to expose the nightly sexual encounters of one of the butchers
downstairs. So, he allowed her to examine the woodcutter before being put in the
incinerator.
8) She found an electronic device in the body of the host which was connected to a
satellite.
9) They argued about what to do next. Once again, William didn't want to go with the
Confederados but Logan did.
10) She saw herself, and her double told her that she was unravelling. She then felt that
there was some kind of device hidden in her arm (like that found by Elsie in the
woodcutters body)
11) He was pumping it into the dead body of his friend. (Slim)
12) Because they had no nitroglycerin left. El Lazo had promised it to the Confederados,
but he stole it from them, and set up William and Logan for the theft.
13) The man in black met Mr Ford. They discussed Arnold and the meaning of life.
14) She awoke while in the butcher's room, once again. This time she was with Felix (and
not his friend), who had just resurrected the bird from the park. The bird landed on her
finger.

1) My father decided to take in an old greyhound.

2) My brother took off the leash, and in an instant the dog spotted a cat.
3) The man in black asked Lawrence whether he believed in fate.
4) Had you been merciful, you would have put a bullet in me.
5) My father told me to be satisfied my lot in life.
6) We saved your man slim here, from quite a predicament.
7) We'll stick to the plan. Under no circumstances shall we kill anyone.
8) We're here to protect the young republic from reckless halfwits like you.
9) Your men are weary and it's a long road ahead. You should rest
10) There's a common misconception that the hosts don't log sexual encounters when
they are underground for reprocessing.
11) Aren't you going to indulge in some of the pleasures on offer?
12) I always felt this place was missing a real villain, hence my humble contributio
1) No sooner had his brother taken off the leash than the dog dashed off chasing a cat.
(his brother)
2) Only then did William learn that Logan was planning on investing in Westworld.
(William)
3) Had you been merciful, you would have put a bullet in me. (you)
4) We'll stick to the plan. Under no circumstances shall we kill anyone (we)
5) Had I lived in the wild west, I would have been a gunslinger. (I)
6) Little did they know, the bodies were being filled with nitroglycerin. (they)
7) Scarcely had the Confederados attacked William when Dolores shot all four of them.
(the Confederados)
8) Only later did we find out that Mr Ford and the man in black were acquaintances. (we)
 Westworld

Episode 6

Characters

Dolores (main host)

Teddy (Dolores' lover)
Abernathy (Dolores' father)
Maeve Millay (the madam)
Clementine (the prostitute)
Wyatt (new character, a sergeant)
Logan (New guest at park)
William (New guest at park)
Bernard Lowe (Chief programmer)
Ms Cullen (executive in Westworld)
Stubbs (Security guy)
Arnold (Former partner of Mr Ford)
Mr Sizemore (Script writer)
Elsie Hughes (programmer in the behaviour department)
Charlotte Hale (executive director)

Comprehension

1) What happened to Maeve at the start?

2) What did Elsie tell Bernard about, at the start?
3) What ‘anomalies’ did Bernard discover?
4) What did Maeve see?
5) How do Teddy and the man in black get past the Union soldiers?
6) What did Bernard find down in the park?
7) What kind of scene did Mr Sizemore make?
8) Where did Elsie go, and what happened to her?
9) What did Bernard tell Theresa?
10) What did Elsie tell Bernard?
11) What did Felix and his friend do to Maeve?
Vocabulary

on the house (for free)

espionage (the practice of spying)

to wipe a memory (to erase a memory)

anomalies (peculiarity)

to vanquish (to destroy)

treacherous (dangerous)

a drawback (a disadvantage)

consenting (willing)

impartial (objective)

to turn s.o in (to inform on)

flaccid (loose, unfirm)

to make an idle threat (an empty threat)

to ambush (to attack by surprise)

to satiate/indulge desires (to gratify desires)

to go off script (to not follow the script)

vanity (self love)

sober up (get sober!)

saboteur (a person who sabotages a project)

to respond (react)
empathy (ability to feel another’s pain)

candour (honesty)

charm (characteristic of making others like you)

courage (bravery)

loyalty (courage)

forego (to go/do without)

prolific (relentless)

lucrative (profitable)

Complete the sentences with the new vocab

1) So, instead of our hosts going insane, they are being used for industrial _____.
2) The man _____ all his oppressors in a tireless fury.
3) There’s only one other way. But the road is _____.
4) It doesn’t matter if he knows about our relationship: we’re _____ adults.
5) I knew it! I should have _____ you in when I first met you. This violates all the rules.
6) That’s the son of a bitch who _____ us a few years back.
7) It’s my business to _____ desires.
8) This is just a _____ project of the man who created this park.
9) They don’t _____ to voice commands.
10) I’ll _____ my cut in exchange for some alterations.

Grammar

ARTICLES: A, THE and NO ARTICLE

Use A / AN
The first time something is mentioned
When it doesn’t matter which one, or you don’t know which one
When the object is singular and countable
With professions
With ‘there is/are a..’

Use THE
When there is only one
When we already know which one
With mountain ranges
With groups of islands
With rivers, seas, oceans, and groups of lakes
With groups of people (nations)
With superlatives
With inventions

Use NO ARTICLE
With indefinite plural or uncountable nouns
With names
With towns and cities
With countries
With continents
With 1 Lake / 1 Mountain
With planets (Note these exceptions! the Earth, the Sun and the Moon too)

ADVANCED ARTICLES COURSE

ARTICLES EXERCISES

Use A / THE / NO ARTICLE in the following sentences:

1) I can’t exactly afford to go to _____ park, but yeah, I’m _____ human like _____
guests.
2) There is _____ drawback though: you are under our _____ control.
3) This is all just _____ cheap trick.
4) Are you filing _____ complaint, Mr Sizemore?
5) Does this have _____ something to do with _____ stray host?
6) I’ve always trusted _____ Ford: he’s _____ mentor and _____ friend.
7) This is just _____ vanity project of _____ man who created this park.
8) Arnold is _____ prolific programmer.

Discussion

1) Have you ever had something ‘on the house’?

2) Do you have a tendency to dwell on the past?
3) Could you forego meat for one week?
4) How do you expect this story to end?
5) Which profession is the most lucrative?

Answers

Questions

1) She insulted one of the customers in order to get killed, and then her body was sent to
Felix for repair. Felix explained to her that she is just a host, and entirely under the
control of the humans. She then had a malfunction, but Felix repaired her.
2) She told him that she had found a transmitter inside the stray host. So, instead of the
hosts going insane, they were being used for industrial espionage.
3) He discovered 5 unregistered hosts were in the park.
4) She saw herself in a film. It was an advert for Westworld. She was with a little girl.
Felix explained that this was her character. Next, Felix’s partner entered, and threatened
to go to the managers and tell them that Felix had an unhealthy obsession with one of the
hosts. However, Maeve threatened him with a scalpel.
5) First they took the clothes from two Union soldiers and disguised themselves.
However, one of the soldiers recognised Teddy, and a gunfight broke out.
6) He found some old first generation hosts. Mr Ford maintains them himself. They only
respond to his commands. They are actually members of Mr Ford’s family. Mr Ford tells
Bernard ‘they are ghosts.’
7) He urinated all over the map while in a drunken stupor. He then met his new boss,
Charlotte Hale.
8) She went to go and find another transmitter in sector three. In the end, someone found
her and grabbed her.
9) He told her there were unregistered hosts in the park.
10) She told him that Theresa had been transmitting the data. But she also told him
‘Arnold’ had modified all the behavioural codes of the hosts so that they were able to lie
and even kill humans.
11) They changed some of her characteristics. In fact, Maeve insisted!

Complete the sentences with the new vocab

1) So, instead of our hosts going insane, they are being used for industrial espionage.
2) The man vanquished all his oppressors in a tireless fury.
3) There’s only one other way. But the road is treacherous.
4) It doesn’t matter if he knows about our relationship: we’re consenting adults.
5) I knew it! I should have turned you in when I first met you.
6) That’s the son of a bitch who ambushed us a few years back.
7) It’s my business to satiate desires.
8) This is just a vanity project of the man who created this park.
9) They don’t respond to voice commands.
10) I’ll forego my cut in exchange for some alterations.

Grammar

1) I can’t exactly afford to go to the park, but yeah, I’m human like the guests.
2) There is a drawback though: you are under our control.
3) This is all just a cheap trick.
4) Are you filing a complaint, Mr Sizemore?
5) Does this have something to do with the stray host?
6) I’ve always trusted Ford: he’s a mentor and a friend.
7) This is just a vanity project of the man who created this park.
8) Arnold is a prolific programmer.