Lesson 15

14 Novembro 2017, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Power and money: "The Masters of the Universe?" (p. 50), excerpt from "Economics for Everyone"  by Jim Stanford (p. 51), reading, spekaing, vocabulary

- Grammar: causative have/get (p. 50)

- Homework: exs. 2A, 2B p. 52, 2A, 2B p. 53, read "Towards a Global Economy" + answer questions to the text (p. 54)

Vocabulary from the lesson:
- metaphors - money as food and linguid: money flows, to take a (huge) chunk out of (savings), (fees) swallowed up (most of the grant), to want a slice of the pie, to pour money into, to pour money down the drain, a problem with cash flow, to splash out on
- money idioms: to leave beyond one's means, to pay an arm and a leg for, to buy sth for a song, to get sth at face value, to grease someone's palm, to have a nest egg, to bet one's bottom dollar on sth, to cut one's losses, to break even,  to go dutch, to buy sb off, to offer a penny for sb's thoughts, to cook the books, to be strapped for cash
- loose/spare change, to pay/settle/foot the bill, a small/considerable fortune, pocket/spending money, desperately/dirt poor, extremely/filthy rich
- miraculously, strangely, needles to say, of course, obviously, remarkably, oddly
- (technical) mumbo-jumbo