Basic Needs

[mu:n]

Everyday Expressions
n.
The beautiful moon is hidden behind the dark clouds.
--- a full moon
--- a half moon
--- a new moon
n.
The spaceship landed on the moon.

moonlight He moonlights as a driver.

Linguistic Skill
Useful Phrases
--- to admire the moon mid-autumn Festival
--- the fall moon
--- the round moon
--- the rising moon
Idioms & Slang
once in a blue moon ---
many moons ago ---
over the moon ---
to promise sb the moon ---

Communicating Clearly

 Street Talks
There is little moon tonight.
A: Darling, todays moon is beautiful. Lets take a walk under the
moon.
B: Youre sweet, honey!
A: Roberts drunk?! Unbelievable! He never drinks!
B: Yeah, he gets drunk only once in a blue moon.
The moonlight is really lovely!
He moonlights as a cab driver.
The story happened many moons ago.
We were over the moon at winning this basketball game.
Politicians always promise the moon before an election.

Cultural Focus

Quotations
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely
subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate.
Christopher Fry (b. 1907), British playwright. Thomas Mendip, in The Ladys
Not for Burning, act 3.