Lesson 6

6 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Soon I'll be 60 years old..." - a song + writing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jErJimwom94)

- "The Model" - a short story by Bernard Malamud (pp. 46-55)

Homework: "Ways to improve the lives of old people in Portugal" - an essay (ca. 400 words, due: 13 October)

Vocabulary from the lesson:

- an about-face
- to bring about
- to beat about the bush

- to grease sb's palm
- homely
- liquidity crisis
- to let sb go
- to meet one's maker
- to pass away
- under the weather
- to powder your nose
- to spend a penny
- well-padded
- a shotgun wedding