Wednesday, March 25

Unit 5. Fortunes

- Grammar revision: worksheet

- Video Listening: “Business Venture”

- Grammar: Sentence adverbials p. 69
. Adverbials show the speaker’s attitude and feelings:
Basic ideas: fundamentally, essentially
Unexpected points: surprisingly enough, believe it or not
Generalisations: by and large, broadly speaking
How something appears: seemingly, apparently
Contrast: however, on the other hand
Reflection on the past: looking back, with hindsight
Partial agreement: to a certain extent, up to a point

Activities: exercise 7, p. 69; Worksheet (as homework)

- Vocabulary: Money idioms (p. 71)
to be a bargain = to be dirt chip
to cost a fortune
to be worth a fortune = to be rolling in it
to be able to live on = not to be well off
to be a bit hard up
to be broke = to be skint = to be on the red
to cost an arm and a leg
to go halves = to split the bill
to treat oneself to something