Post CPE Lesson 19

Class
Reading and discussion
Dario Fo at 90
How much should we fear AI?
Twenty things to do in your 20's 
Links:
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/mar/18/dario-fo-at-90-so-farce-so-good
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/18/artificial-intelligence-humans-computers
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/18/twenty-things-do-20s-protest-sex-unsuitable

Vocabulary
puckish
knockabout
to have no truck with
madcap
to liken yourself to someone else
to do something at someone else's bidding
sought out (past participle of seek out)
sought-after (adjective)
to squat (verb) (squatter - noun)
fully fledged
allotment
to pit someone against someone else
to flummox
to hoodwink

Collocations 
bitingly satiric
fiendishly complex

Corrections
advice - uncountable - some advice advices, an advice
music players ⇢ musicians

Language Development

1. Consistency and appropriacy of style and register. Effect on target reader (Gold p. 47)
2. Inversion for emphasis (Gold p. 48)

Seldom, rarely = not often

I would have been delighted to... however/unfortunately

I don't suppose there is any chance of... putting the date back/bringing the date forward

I'm heavily committed throughout the following months....

I'm afraid I can't take on anything else....