Five Old Idioms Shouting at a crying child just adds fuel to the fire . to make a problem worse

1. Five Old Idioms Shouting at a crying child just adds fuel to the fire. to make a problem worse I can't take time for your problem. I have other /bigger fish to fry. to have more important things to do.  My friends invited me to go camping on Saturday, but I have to go to my cousin's wedding instead. Blood is thicker than water, after all. family relationships are stronger and more important than other kinds of relationships, such as being friends She gave up her drinking habit cold turkey and had no ill effects. immediately; without cutting down gradually. (Originally drug slang. Now used of breaking any habit.) His parents never referred to the shoplifting incident again. I suppose they thought it best to let sleeping dogs lie. to not talk about things which have caused problems in the past, or to not try to change a situation because you might cause problems

2. Five New Idioms Why do people take part in these shows and spill their guts on camera in front of a studio audience? to tell someone all about yourself, especially your problems He says he didn't realize banking was such a stressful job. Well, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. if you are not able to deal with a difficult or unpleasant situation, you should leave The problem is, if you don't have a witness, you don't have a leg to stand on. To be in a situation where you cannot prove something I was hoping they might have forgotten my offer. Fat chance! there is very little or no possibility of that happening It won't affect me anyway. I'll be pushing up the daisies long before it happens. To be dead

3. Five Old Idioms Daisies

4. Five New Idioms Why do people take part in these shows and spill their guts on camera in front of a studio audience? to tell someone all about yourself, especially your problems He says he didn't realize banking was such a stressful job. Well, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. if you are not able to deal with a difficult or unpleasant situation, you should leave The problem is, if you don't have a witness, you don't have a leg to stand on. To be in a situation where you cannot prove something I was hoping they might have forgotten my offer. Fat chance! there is very little or no possibility of that happening It won't affect me anyway. I'll be pushing up the daisies long before it happens. To be dead

5. Next class Words Cards: All idioms

6. Portfolio task: Writing • Choose between: • An email describing a place (U5) • A review (U6) • Taking/organizing/writing up notes (U7) • Deadline: 3/4

7. Reading: Unit 8 In the Newspapers

8. Get Ready to Read • Do you read a newspaper? Which one? • Do you read English newspapers? Or do you check their websites? • Which sections do you read? • Technology Financial and Business Culture and Review • Sport News Health and Medical • Travel Letters to the Editor • Did you read it? (Portlandia) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JLWQEuz2gA

10. a pun (to pun) = a play on words, sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar meaning or sound of different words.

11. Pun: Hacked to Death • To hack • to gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorisation •  Hacked people’s phone • To hack to death • to kill someone with an axe • Closure of the news paper • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p-oTABvugs

12. Types: size + content Broadsheets more intellectual newspapers (The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph...) Tabloids Popular press (The Sun, Daily Mirror...): celebrities, gossip, often very anti-European Berliner or Midi European papers such as Le Monde in France, La Stampa in Italy, El País in Spain and, since 2005, The Guardian in the United Kingdom.

13. Types: political orientation

14. Types: political orientation • The news the paper focuses on • Letters to the editor • Editorial, Leader (UK), Leading article (UK): an opinion piece written by the senior editorial staff

15. Newspapers: vocabulary headline The title of a newspaper article, usually set in large type caption Lines under a photograph which explain what the photo is about typo A typographical error the funnies The section of a newspaper containing comic strips Obituary A published notice of a death, sometimes with a brief biography of the deceased.

16. Most popular newspaper sections? In Australia

17. Bikes are everywhere • Are bikes everywhere in Brussels? • Do you/would you ride a bike in Brussels? (! Not drive a bike) • Different attitude to cycling in Belgium compared to your native country? • In the past two years, not a single cyclist was killed in Brussels. Reasons? • Cf. London: Five deaths in nine days (November 2013) • http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/14/fifth-london-bike-death-bus-superhighway

18. Bikes are everywhere Reading suggestion David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37IDIUOJA6s

19. Bikes are everywhere Vocabulary The dark underbelly of downtown A vulnerable, unprotected area (here: dangerous area) Commuter Someone who travels from home to work (and back) (also: to commute) Something catches your eye Something attracts your attention (eye-catching) A city on its knees In a very weak, bad position bring something to its knees: to cause something to be in a weakened or impoverished state

20. Bikes are everywhere Vocabulary A third of the workforce All the people working The pace of change Here: the speed of change Pace: a step Overnight Literally: during the night Here: sudden e.g. An overnight success

21. Bikes are everywhere • When does he wear a helmet? • How does he want to promote • cycling in NYC? • Why does he like riding his bike in • the city? • What are the most bike-friendly • cities, according to Byrne? • What are Byrne’s recommendations for NYC? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37IDIUOJA6s

22. Bikes are everywhere • When does he wear a helmet? • When he’s in the perilous city traffic • Perilous: dangerous • How does he want to promote cycling in NYC? • Designed bike racks • Promotes bike share programmes • Wants more bike access in city streets

23. Bikes are everywhere • Why does he like riding his bike in the city? • A new perspective on the city (“dreamy,” “floating through the landscape”) • What are the most bike-friendly cities, according to Byrne? • Not the cities you’d expect (Amsterdam, Copenhagen...) • Northern Italian towns: it seems like the whole centre of the city is closed off

24. Bikes are everywhere • What are Byrne’s recommendations for NYC? • Put the highway underground (bury) • More bike lanes on the east side

25. Reading exercise • In groups of three: • Each of you: read an article and prepare to talk about it (take some notes) • Summarise your article to the people in your group

26. Vocabulary Elusive Difficult to catch (here: win); difficult to define or describe Standing Reputation Time trial Race in which competitors compete against the clock To elude To escape To face To be confronted with To be fitted Equipped

27. Vocabulary To endorse a driving license (in the UK) mark (a driving licence) with the penalty points given as a punishment for a driving offence: e.g. his licence was endorsed with five points; she’s had her licence endorsed Sensible Reasonable, fair (<-> sensitive) Folding money Paper money (bank notes)  Pun: folding money – folding bikes Dishevelled Disordered, untidy (hair, clothing) Corduroy A durable cut-pile fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs

28. Vocabulary

29. Vocabulary To tuck in (tucked-in) to put the end of something such as a piece of clothing under or behind another piece in order to make it tidy Unprepossessing Not impressive; unremarkable; nondescript: Industrial estate an area of land where industrial companies have their buildings Junction a point on a motorway where traffic may leave or join it

30. Vocabulary Self-confessed openly admitting to being a person of a specified type. To secrete Here: to put in a hiding place To generate and separate (a substance) from cells or bodily fluids To reap rewards To obtain rewards/benefits (literally: to harvest) Heyday The period of greatest popularity, success, or power; prime Inception Beginning

31. Cooke shows ingredients for big prize • Cooke can become World champion this week • She will lead team GB • She’s number one in cycling • She has never won it •  In newspapers: often one idea (sometimes just one sentence) in every paragraph

32. Cyclists facing £2,500 bell fines • A law might be introduced in the UK which would mean that you have to have a bell when you cycle. • Cycling without one would be a criminal offence • You might be fined between £30 and £60 (or more) • (Current regulations) • (Transport Minister)

33. That bicycle that turned into folding money • Andrew Ritchie (58) has spent 30 years building a portable bike. • He has sold nearly 100,000 bikes and his company is a manufacturing success. •  In this article: descriptive paragraphs in the introduction

34. Sports: go, do, play • Should you say...? • I go cycling. • I do cycling. • I play cycling. • Go Play Do

35. Sports: go, do, play

36. Sports: go, do, play Go is used with activities and sports that end in -ing. The verb go here implies that we go somewhere to practice this sport: go swimming. Do is used with recreational activities and with individual, non-team sports or sports in whicha ball is not used: for example: do a crossword puzzle, do athletics, do karate. Play is generally used with team sports and those sports that need a ball or similar object (puck, disc, shuttlecock...). Also, those activities in which two people or teams compete against each other: play football, play poker, play chess. Source: http://inmadom-myenglishclass.blogspot.be/2013/01/collocations-do-play-or-go-with-sports.html

37. Sports: go, do, play Some exceptions to the rules: You use do with two activities that end in -ing: do boxing and do body-building. Golf: if there is an idea of competition, you use the verb play. However, you can say go golfing if you do it for pleasure: Tiger Woods plays golf. We'll go golfing at the weekend.

38. In the News • In groups • Find an interesting article in the paper • Tell people from a different group about the article • What is it about? • Why did you choose it? • What’s the style of the article? • What’s your opinion on the topic? • Find three words or expressions that you don’t understand and look them up in the dictionary

39. In the News: Suggestion The Daily Show with Jon Stewart http://thedailyshow.cc.com/ An American late-night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. It is currently the longest-running program on Comedy Central, and has won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards. (Wikipedia)

40. Pronunciation exercise • Though (rhymes with know): although, even though • Bough (rhymes with cow): a big branch on a tree • Cough (rhymes with off) • Dough (rhymes with know): mixture of flour, water (to make bread) • Hiccough (sounds like hikup): short sound in your throat (also spelled hiccup) • Thorough: including everything that is possible or necessary • Slough (rhymes with enough): to remove an outer layer of skin • Slough (rhymes with cow): an emotional condition in which you feel extremely sad or have lost all your hope • Through (rhymes with blue)

41. Pronunciation exercise • Bead (rhymes with weed or lead): a small piece of glass or metal with a hole through it (to make a necklace) • Suite (sounds like sweet): a set of rooms (not to be confused with suit) • Moth: a flying insect like a butterfly that flies mostly at night. The young form of some types of moth eat cloth • Broth (rhymes with moth): a liquid for giving flavour when cooking (chicken broth, vegetable broth) • Dose (s sound): an amount of something • Rose (z sound) • Goose (s sound) (plural: geese) • Choose (z sound)

42. Pronunciation exercise • Cork • Ward (rhymes with lord): large room in hospital • Font (o): e.g. Times New Roman • Front (u): e.g. In front you • Sword (rhymes with lord)(don’t pronounce the w) • Thwart: to prevent someone from doing something • Cart: a vehicle pulled by a horse