Lesson 7
11 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska
- "Stephen Fry's guide to the UK" - a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cFXSDN_5k)
- "National trait" - reading, speaking, vocabulary (pp. 62-63)
- "Reddit users list their favourite British words and phrases" - reading (p. 64)
- "I was well gutted about the dodgy grub" - British slang (pp. 65-66)
- "Roger that: British confirmed as word's sexiest accent. But which one?" - reading (pp. 67-68)
- "One woman, 17 British accents" - a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk)
Homework: read "The Cranes" - a short story by Peter Meinke (pp. 71, 73-74)
Vocabulary from the lesson:
- aloof
- devious
- self-effacing
- meticulous
- endearing
- staggering
- curtain twitching
- road rage
- against all odds
- nippy
(Slang:)
- gutted
- dodgy
- the bee's knees
- nosh/grub
- knackered
- jammy
- fit
- ta
- two sandwiches short of a picnic