VOCABULARY BUILD UP
POLITICAL DUEL
Close everything? Open everything? Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am… POLITICAL DUEL VOCABULARY to the left of me– налево от меня / слева от меня to the […]
Месяц: Июнь 2020
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
WIPE? NAPKIN? Or TISSUE?
“Quick! Does somebody have a Clorox wipe?” Судя по моему опыту, носители русского языка в основном владеют словом napkin и употребляют его для обозначения любых салфеток – как wipes, так и tissues. Запомним, что […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
THANK YOU, GUYS, FOR MAKING MY SELF-ISOLATION POSSIBLE
…I never considered how many people I depend on to isolate myself. Delivery guys, trash pickup, power plant workers, city engineers, cops and firefighters (& their support staff), telephone crews, TV station personnel, online tech […]
FUN
WEARING A MASK AT HOME?!
– You are wearing a face mask in our house? – It’s to keep me from stress eating. STRESS EATING – ЗАЕДАТЬ СТРЕСС to keep somebody from something –> from stress eating to keep […]
FUN
KANGAROO DEFIES LOCKDOWN RULES
A kangaroo is hopping through empty streets of an Australian town South Australia Police have captured the moment a kangaroo hopped through the heart of downtown Adelaide during coronavirus lockdown. Source Adelaide [‘æd(ə)leɪd]- Аделаида (город […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
TO LIE? OR TO LAY? A DIFFICULT CHOICE
“Your boss didn’t want you to lay here worrying about the work piling up, so he fired you.” Обратим внимание на глагол to lay – Your boss didn’t want you to lay here worrying… […]
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
WHEN A MISSILE BREAKS LOOSE…
A missile was ‘accidentally’ fired from a military jet in Chad when the plane was taking off. The missile broke loose and struck a nearby house, killing five people. Allegedly, the missile first hit a […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
PUTTING ON A FACE MASK MAY BE A CHALLENGE
This is an orang-utang. It lives at a zoo. It is a female. And she loves to try things on. In this video, she is trying on a face mask. She has seen people […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
MAKING SCAPEGOATS
Source He only knows how to make scapegoats = (в подстрочнике:) Он только и умеет, что делать козлов отпущения. scapegoat [‘skeɪpgəut] – козёл отпущения to scapegoat – делать из кого-то козла отпущения You shouldn’t make me […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
CORONAVIRUS STATS MAY BE ALL WRONG
April 17, 2020 The Daily Mail newspaper says that old people are dying in old-people’s homes because they are not tested for coronavirus. The newspaper claims that there is a ‘hidden epidemic’ of coronavirus in […]