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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Thursday, September 1, 2011

LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH LITERATURE: VIKAS SWARUP SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.


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..."There is excitement in the house again. A new cook has arrived. His name is Jai. He does not know half the things that Ramu knew. Never mind cooking French cuisine, he cannot even pronounce au gratin. But he gets the job because he is a mature, married man, with a woman and two girls who live nearby the village. I am not so happy to share my room again. I was enjoying sleeping alone in the bunk beds. On some nights I would sleep in the top bed and in others in the bottom. I take an instant dislike to Jai. He has shifty eyes. He smokes secretly in the room. And he treats me like a servant..."  "He lights up another cigarette and sends smoke rings spinning out of his mouth.

Meaning of shifty: sospecho, furtivo, 
Sinonims of shifty:  (adjective)
untrustworthy, deceitful, devious, evasive, furtive, slippery, sly, tricky, underhand
spinning out: spin out           
    spin out   spins out; spinning out; spun out
If you spin something out, you make it last longer than it normally would.
My wife's solicitor was anxious to spin things out for as long as possible.
The Government will try to spin out the conference into next autumn.
PHR-V  
Sinonims of spin out= prolong, extend  
Collins Dictionary

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