❝ Monologues · 7 lines · B2

Gentlemen, this is a test.

The chancellor's speech · V for Vendetta (2006)

 

Gentlemen, this is a test.

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Moments such as these are matters of faith.

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Why it's worth practising

It turns a security failure into a holy test, a textbook piece of authoritarian rhetoric.

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