1. English Moment
6th October, 2016
Presented by
6X (Group 4)

2. Your classmates went shopping last week. Gigi bought a Prada handbag.
Tommy bought a watch.
Gigi
$10,000
$300
Tommy
Hysan Place

3. What should you say?
Do you really struggle with words? $
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4. Today, we’re going to teach you how to talk about prices.

5. 1) It cost a fortune. This talk about something that is very expensive.
Do you go to concerts? How are the tickets? Are they like cheap?
No, they usually cost us a fortune, right?
$2000

6. 2) It cost an arm and leg. Let’s talk about the origin of this phrase first.
A century or so ago, the painters used to charge a lot for paintings.
It was a trend at that time that a painting till the shoulders including the
head was really cheap.

7. The painting until the waist was the second one in price and a painting
until your feet was the most expensive. So, following that comes “It cost an arm
and leg”. Something which is very expensive.

8. Auctioneer:. I’m at $4,000 and I want $5,000, $5,000,
Auctioneer: I’m at $4,000 and I want $5,000, $5,000, bid on $5,000, I’m at $4,000 would you go $5,000, $5,000 …..
Thank you sir. Final bid $5,000, $5,000.
Thank you…thank you.
Bidder: What? $5,000 for a small vase?
It cost an arm and leg.

9. 3) That’s a rip off. If something is so expensive that you have to pay a lot of money for it, that’s a rip off.
E.g. Once I got a pen from China and that pen was $100.
I showed my best friend. The pen looked cool.
$100

10. My friend showed me another pen that she bought from a local market.
It’s $20 only.
OMG! That’s a rip off. I I was cheated because it was not worth the money.
$20

11. 4 It was dirt cheap.
Dirt cheap as it says means that something which is as cheap as dirt.
Meaning: – very cheap – almost free – at an extremely low cost – quite inexpensive
Be careful when you buy dirt cheap clothes. The colours could run when you wash them.

12. very expensive very cheap It cost a fortune It cost an arm and leg
That’s a rip off
It was dirt cheap
very expensive
very cheap