Part I Short conversations: Idioms and phrases

1. You hit the nail on the head!
2. He got plastered.
3. How much alcohol can you handle?
4. Let me go get you some hot tea.
5. He is a terrible singer.
6. He is too bossy.
7. Who made me the cleaning lady?
8. Great work, everyone!
9. Please put them in two bags of four.
10. I’ll take that as a “no”!
11. Make that two.
12. These seats are for the elderly and the disabled.
13. Make that thinner!
14. Someone beat me to it.
15. This is my sixth year.
16. I was running a fever and sick all day yesterday.

Part II Short essays

1. Abortion
2. Stray dogs
3. Regulation in space
4. Literary translation
5. Gender pay gap
6. Emergency cash aids
7. Moral obligation
8. Poverty and redistribution
9. Anonymity on-line
10. Machine translators
11. Low birth rates
12. A divided nation
13. Delivery foods and people’s health
14. Sex offenders

Part III My two cents (Longer essays)

1. Saving lives on the cheap
2. The freedom of the press
3. Internet trolls and on-line bullies: the nasty half-brothers
4. Contact-tracing apps
5. Are leggings pants?
6. A nation of prodigies
7. An all-volunteer military
8. Sending my little kiddie off to the military
9. Does poverty cause obesity?
10. Hasty and Cowardly