Lesson 9

14 Março 2016, 12:00 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Vocabulary review - a test

- "The Model" - a short story by Bernard Malamud (pp. 58-67)

- "When I was 7 years old" - a song + writing

- Homework: read "The secret to a long and happy life" (p. 69) + exercises (extra worksheet)

Vocabulary from the lesson:

Euphemisms/Idioms (see pp. 64-65):

- to grease sb's palm
- homely
- liquidity crisis
- to let sb go
- to meet one's maker
- hearing impaired
- well-padded
- under the weather
- a panhandler
- expecting

Expressions with "about" (p. 66):

- to be out and about
- to look about
- an about-face
- to bring about
- (not) to beat about the bush
- about time