Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (21^st Feb. 2015)

Vocabulary: caveat, to taper off, to lessen, augment, conspicuous, fuzzy, bullish, bearish, haircut, purchasing power, costume/imitation jewellery, self-esteem, self-actualization

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following link:
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

OR simply look them up in Google.

Extras, if you have time:

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde

Class: 20^th / 28^th February 2015 

Unit 9B: Cash free

Pages: 89 - 91

Grammar:

a/an vs one; few, a few, quite a few

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm

http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/923/difference-between-hundred-a-hundred-and-one-hundred

Productive suffixes

http://hoangdungz.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/suffixes-productive-suffixes-and-word.html

Vocabulary: defeatist, St. James’s way, diffidence, diffident, hitchhike, the lesser of two evils, left/right-wing, to render

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following link:

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

OR simply look them up in Google.

Homework: Workbook – pg 46 ex 1 & 2

Extras, if you have time:

TED Talk

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson

Entrevista Satish Kumar Education (Sub español)

Class: 14^th / 21^st February 2015

Unit 9A: The price of happiness

Pages: 86 - 88

Grammar: Simple vs Continuous – verbs with different meaning

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/non-continuous-verbs 

http://poligo.com/articles/grammar/verbs-different-meanings-when-they-are-states-and-actions 

Vocabulary: offspring, mean, frugal, thrifty, generous, make ends meet, fast asleep, to fast, to fasten, to strive

To review definitions given in class and see further examples, click on the following link:

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english 

OR simply look them up in Google. Clicking on Images can be quite helpful.

Homework: Workbook – pg. 44 - 45

Extras, if you have time:

Ben Ambridge: 10 myths about psychology, debunked

https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_ambridge_10_myths_about_psychology_debunked 

Yanis Varoufakis’, Minister of Finance

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ 

Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis on Greek economic problems (20Feb12)