D'Amico Shipping B2 Lesson 4

Class

Reading Skills

Multople choice matching strategies pp. 24 - 25

Vocabulary

Word combinations

Adjective + noun

Overnight flight

Global economy

Cramped seat

Frequent flyer

Noun + noun

Time zone

Health risk

Jet lag

Noun + prepositional phrase

Perk of the job

Idioms

Flogging a dead horse http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/flogging-a-dead-horse.html

Banging your head against a(brick) wall http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bang+head+against+a+brick+wall

Comparative and superlative forms

P. 26

Listening 

Telephone messages p. 27

Corrections

Pronunciation

Headache /ˈhɛdˌeɪk/

Suitable /ˈsuːtəbəl/

Homework

1. Listening follow up

Go through the audioscript on pages 141 - 142 making a note of any interesting and useful examples of phrasal verbs, fixed expressions and functional language.

e.g. I'm fixing up the next meeting = organise 

I'm getting back to you about,

I'll just get a pen/my agenda/diary/the document

By the way,

While you're on the phone 

Oh, one other/more thing

2. Listening Christmas Songs

Next week will be our last lesson before the holidays so I thought it might be fun if we introduced each other to our favourite Christmas songs. Choose a Christmas song and prepare a short presentation on why you like it. If you wish, you can add it to the following Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/11142496185/playlist/7Cbt7FfPwVG11btvZvVlqt

If you need some inspiration, have a look at the following blogs:
http://scarybradshaw.blogspot.it/2014/12/scary-bradshaws-musical-advent-calendar.html
http://scarybradshaw.blogspot.it/2014/12/scary-bradshaws-musical-advent-calendar_16.html