Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward
Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward
Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward
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12b Bounty hunter<br />
Date:<br />
Can do (tick ✓)<br />
I can identify information mentioned in a radio programme.<br />
I can discuss a hypothetical situation.<br />
I can understand and use a set of idioms connected with money.<br />
I can use the passive to report opinions and facts without naming the source.<br />
Did you know<br />
One of America’s best-known bounty hunters is<br />
Honolulu-based Duane Chapman, also known<br />
as ‘Dog the bounty hunter’. On his website he<br />
advertises his services with the words ‘From 18<br />
to 80, blind, crippled or crazy, if they can’t walk<br />
or crawl, we’ll drag ’em back.’<br />
Money idioms<br />
Rearrange the words to make idioms connected with money. Two mean rich and two mean poor.<br />
in he it rolling is<br />
make can’t they meet ends<br />
for they cash strapped are<br />
absolutely she loaded is<br />
Diary<br />
You have nearly completed <strong>Straightforward</strong> <strong>Upper</strong> <strong>Intermediate</strong>. Write a brief evaluation of<br />
it. What have you learnt What have you found useful What have you found interesting<br />
‘ ’<br />
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above<br />
hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.<br />
J.R.R. Tolkien (British author, 1892–1973)