Exercise

1. What is a bad hair day?

a) a day when your hair is a mess

b) a day when everything goes well

c) a day when everything goes wrong

2. What 5 things happened to Nina on her bad hair day?

Answers

1. c) a day when everything goes wrong

2. She overslept, was late for work, missed an important meeting, left her mobile phone in the restaurant at lunch time and then spilt coffee on her new skirt.

Read

Today on Language Snacks we take a look at the expression bad hair. Let’s listen to the dialogue.

A: What’s the matter Sam? You look upset.

B: Oh, it’s nothing, I’m just having a bad hair day – everything’s going wrong.

Do you ever have days when nothing seems to be going right? Well, I’m sure you do - in English you can call this a bad hair day.

Anyway, this morning I overslept, then I was late for work and missed an important meeting, then I left my mobile phone in the restaurant at lunchtime and just before I spilt coffee on my new skirt – this is a real bad hair day!

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