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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)

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