• Comments

• Up-market – describes goods and products of very high quality

• Shoulder market – low season in air transportation, when ticket prices are cut down

• Off-peak – not at the most popular and expensive time

• White-collar (adj) – relating to people who work in offices, doing work that needs mental rather than physical effort

• “Darby & Joan” – a happily married couple who leads a placid, uneventful life (from Random House Dictionary)

• Language focus

• Compound Adjectives

• A compound adjective is an adjective that comprises more than one word. Usually, hyphens are used to link the words together to show that it is one adjective. For example: it is a six-page document. Claire worked as a part-time keeper at the Safari park. That is all-too-common mistake.

• Often adjectives are formed from proper nouns, which should be written using capital letters and without hyphens. For example: They continue their “Darby & Joan” lifestyle when travelling. The words “Darby & Joan” are one adjective describing the lifestyle.

• Word study

1. Match the words in the box to make acceptable pairs

• Example: holiday mindset

  white	couple
  adult	market
  family	period
  middle	preferences
  keen	collar
  range of	focused
  peak	group
  limited	observed
  peer	budget

2. Match the words with their definitions

mindset	done carefully and in great detail
keen	to have a strong want or hope to do or have something
in-depth	beautiful
to seek	allowing someone to have or do what they want
to aspire	a person’s way of thinking and their opinions
peer group	to escape
indulgent	to participate, partake
to share	to look for
fair	the group who are approximately the same age as you and come from a similar social group
to avoid	very interested, eager or wanting (to do) something very much