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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, October 6, 2011


IDIOM: beat around the bush | beat about the bush

For example:Meaning: If you beat around the bush, or beat about the bush, you don't say something directly, usually because you don't want to upset the person you're talking to.
  • I had trouble telling Pedro he'd lost his job. I started beating around the bush and talking about one door closing and another door opening.
  • Stop beating about the bush. Just tell me what's happened!
Quick Quiz:
It's hard not to beat around the bush when you have to
  1. put out a bushfire
  2. give someone some good news
  3. tell someone some bad news

SAYING: All cats are grey in the dark

Note: grey (BrE), gray (AmE) (adj.) = a colour between black and white | the dark (noun) = the absence of light in a place; darkness
Possible interpretation: The implication is that beauty, or physical appearance, is unimportant.

Quick Quiz:
The saying "All cats are grey in the dark" suggests that a pleasing physical appearance is
  1. not that important
  2. important at night
  3. neither black nor white

PHRASAL VERB dumb down Informal
Meaning: to make something like a movie or a novel easier to understand so more money can be made from it
For example:
  • dumb down sth Ross used to work in telelvision, but he quit when he was told he had to dumb down the programs he was working on.
  • dumb sth down Movie directors often say big studios dumb their movies down to sell more tickets.
Quick Quiz:
If a movie has been dumbed down, it means it has been changed to make it
  1. easier to act in
  2. easier to direct
  3. easier to understand

SLAN: GEEK.
Meaning: a computer and IT expert
For example:
  • Google has some of the smartest geeks in the business working for them.
  • A lot of those computer geeks we saw in college in the 70's and 80's are incredibly wealthy now.
Quick Quiz:
If you want to meet a lot of geeks, you should go to
  1. a baseball game
  2. a software convention
  3. a jazz festival
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