C1 28-29/10/15

Life expectancy

get a life!

spoken used to tell someone that you think they are boring and should find more exciting things to do

Ss book p.22 and 23

draw – break the deadlock -> better: tie and break a tie

get through phrasal verb to manage to talk to someone on the telephoneI tried to ring earlier, but I couldn't get through. Communicating by telephone

get through to sb phrasal verb to succeed in making someone understand or believe something

I just don't seem to be able to get through to him these days.

A spooktacular halloween

don [countable]

1 British English a university teacher, especially one who teaches at the universities of Oxford or Cambridge

2 informal the leader of a Mafia organization

bash [countable]

informal a party or an event to celebrate something:

a birthday bash

ga‧lore [only after noun]

in large amounts or numbers:

bargains galore in the sales

as it were->so to speak

we can use the phrase as it were to show that we realise that something we have said may not precisely express what we mean.

twisted /ˈtwɪstɪd/ adjective

1 SHAPE Something that is twisted is bent a lot of times and does not have its usual shape.

2 STRANGE strange and slightly unpleasant or cruel

He'd become bitter and twisted .

outrageous /ˌaʊtˈreɪdʒəs/ adjective

shocking or extreme

outrageous behaviour/clothes

The prices in that restaurant were outrageous.

outrageously adverb

outrageously expensive

Open bar (barra libre)

un‧rav‧el past tense and past participle unravelled, present participle unravelling British English, past tense and past participle unraveled, present participle unraveling American English

1 [transitive] to understand or explain something that is mysterious or complicated:

Detectives are still trying to unravel the mystery surrounding his death.