Today is the final class in our current four class set. This week we have some interesting topics. I want to focus on how we tell stories, or recount events. This is a common conversation skill that the best speakers always do well. Our reading material is about the dramatic mysterious poisoning in SangJu. Could you summarize this story for others who are not familiar with it?

            Our listening material is about self centered people. I know that you are not active on social media, but do you know someone who is? Does their personality reflect that of somebody who changes their SNS profile picture often? I want to hear about this. 

Idioms

• "lost cause" Something hopeless. Ex. Cindy spend five years studying Russian. Finally, she realized it was a lost cause. She would never learn it. 
• "blow something" To spoil or ruin something. Ex. Brenda blew the interview and didn't get the job offer.
• "gung ho" Very enthusiastic; Very excited (about something). Ex. Heather is really gung ho about her new job.
• "on thin ice" To be in a dangerous position: to be temporarily on somebody's bad side. Ex. Bill was on thin ice with his girlfriend after she saw him at the movie theater with another girl. 

Vocabulary

• Narcissism
• Machiavellian ism
• Psychopathy
• Chronic

Click HERE for the reading material