NEST EGG

nest egg noun

1. a natural or artificial egg left in a nest especially to induce a hen to continue to lay there
2. an amount of money that has been saved or kept for a special purpose; a fund of money accumulated as a reserve; an amount of money that is saved over a usually long period of time to pay for something in the future :

They built up a nest egg for their son's college education.

The allusion is to The connection between putting a real or china egg into a hen's nest to encourage her to lay. and the 'savings' meaning isn't exactly clear. It may be that the idea was that the egg that was put into the nest could be later retrieved, after the hen had laid.

Sources:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/255100.html

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles/nest-egg

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nest%20egg

Photocopies from 21st February

KICK THE BUCKET

to kick the bucket  informal to die

photocopies from 16th February

audio for TASK 1 (see photocopies from 26th January) 

audio for TASK 2 

KICKING ONE'S HEELS

to kick one's heels to wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; to be kept waiting around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.; to pass time doing unimportant things:

They were forced to kick their heels for nearly a quarter of an hour.

The authorities wouldn't grant us permission to fly all the way down to San Francisco, so I had to kick my heels at Tunis Airport.

photocopies from 14th February

pangolin's love_first day
pangolin's love_second day
pangolin's love_third day
pangolin's love_fourth day

"... AND WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO HUMILIATE THEM."

Go out of one's way (to do sth) to make a special effort to do sth; to take considerable trouble or inconvenience oneself; to try very hard to do something, especially for someone else;

   They really went out of their way to make us feel welcome.

   He would always go out of his way to be friendly towards her 

photocopies from 7th February 

Caligula's return_addressing the senators 

ON A HIDING TO NOTHING

photocopies from 31st January 

Caligula: documentary