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Five New Idioms Stop pestering me with all your advice. Nobody likes a backseat driver ! an annoying passenger who tells the driver how to drive; someone who tells others how to do things. Okay, long story short : everything that goes up comes down, okay? to make a long story short
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Five New Idioms Stop pestering me with all your advice. Nobody likes a backseat driver! an annoying passenger who tells the driver how to drive; someone who tells others how to do things. Okay, long story short: everything that goes up comes down, okay? to make a long story short We decided to do a dry run (or dummy run) at the church the day before the wedding. an occasion when you practise doing something to make sure there will be no problems when you really do it Pardon my French, but this is a hell of a day. Excuse my use of swear words or taboo words. Whenever I bake a cake, I start from scratch. I never use a cake mix in a box. to start from the very beginning; to start from nothing
Five New Idioms Stop pestering me with all your advice. Nobody likes a backseat driver! an annoying passenger who tells the driver how to drive; someone who tells others how to do things. Okay, long story short: everything that goes up comes down, okay? to make a long story short We decided to do a dry run (or dummy run) at the church the day before the wedding. an occasion when you practise doing something to make sure there will be no problems when you really do it Pardon my French, but this is a hell of a day. Excuse my use of swear words or taboo words. Whenever I bake a cake, I start from scratch. I never use a cake mix in a box. to start from the very beginning; to start from nothing
Reading: Unit 6 A Weekend in Wales
Your room will be ready To settle an account To pay off an account To re-let the accommodation To rent it out again You will be liable for a cancellation charge You have to pay the money Allowance Sum of money given to compensate for expenses To insure To provide or arrange insurance for To ensure To make sure
Reading Test International Postal Services
International Postal Services It pays to get the postage right To have a good result (it is rewarding); money that you pay in order to send letters and parcels through the post Surface mail post that is sent by road, railway, or sea A stamp book a set of stamps To incorporate to include Dispatch sending
International Postal Services Courier service Company whose job is to deliver documents or parcels (UPS, DHL...) Economical (<-> economic) Cheap
Reading: Unit 7 I saw an article about it
Get Ready to Read Discuss the following questions in groups: Do you read magazines in your native language? In English? What kinds? Do you have a subscription to any magazine? Why or why not? Do you think the sales of magazines have or in the past few years? Why? risen increased gone up dropped plummeted gone down
Call of the Wild Travel magazine Tourists on safari. They are in a 4WD (four-wheel drive) or a 4x4 (four by four). The animal is a cheetah. Leopards may sometimes be confused with two other large spotted cats, the cheetah, with which it may co-exist in Africa, and the jaguar, a neotropical species that it does not naturally co-exist with. However, the patterns of spots in each are different: the cheetah has simple black spots, evenly spread; while the leopard normally has rounder, smaller rosettes (A roselike marking or formation, such as one of the clusters of spots on a leopard's fur) than those of the jaguar. The cheetah has longer legs and a thinner build that makes it look more streamlined and taller but less powerfully built than the leopard. (source: Wikipedia)
Leopard Cheetah
The Big Five Leopard Cape buffalo African elephant lion rhinoceros
Loanwords Graffiti Ghetto Money Umbrella Italian
Loanwords Easel Cookie Landscape Coleslaw Dutch
Loanwords Camouflage Expertise Petty Necessary French
Loanwords Kindergarten Kitsch Poodle Rucksack German
Interactive Language Map: The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2014/jan/15/interactive-european-language-map
Call of the Wild Old hand Someone who is experienced, a veteran Insider One who has special knowledge or access to confidential information game Wild animals, birds, or fish hunted for food or sport; The flesh of these animals, eaten as food To congregate To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. waterholes a natural area of water where wild animals go to drink foliage Plant leaves, especially tree leaves, considered as a group. rains Rainy season or wet season
Call of the Wild dispersed Scattered, separated shrub A bush to thunder To produce sounds like thunder top-end Of or relating to the best or most expensive products of their kind crisp clean or fresh impeccable Having no flaws; perfect top-notch First-rate; excellent
Call of the Wild to sample To taste, to try out trails A marked or beaten path, as through woods or wilderness Off the beaten track away from populous or much-travelled regions Perspective A view, viewpoint, outlook Dossier A collection of papers giving detailed information about a particular person or subject.
Call of the Wild To tack on A tack =A short, light nail with a sharp point and a flat head. to tack = To fasten or attach with or as if with a tack Dhow (rhymes with cow)
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience • English poet and painter • 1757-1827 (Romantic poet) • Nature poetry and religious poetry • A hippy avant-la-lettre • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAT-Ds6tYyE
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(Blake)
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. To generalize is to be an idiot. Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. Study for a Portrait, After the life mask of William Blake, 1955 (Francis Bacon)
