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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

Friday, October 28, 2011

Words in the news: Dancing into history


  • An historic leap! American David Hallberg will soon be in the limelight as the first foreign principal dancer of Russia's Bolshoi ballet company.
  • At the height of the Cold War, 50 years ago, when Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West, an American dancer in Moscow would have been unimaginable.
  • But now Hallberg has the opportunity to wow the Bolshoi's fans.
  • leapa leap is a big jump but it can also be used to suggest a sudden change.
  • in the limelight limelight was originally a form of stage lighting before electricity. The expression 'in the limelight' now 
  • means being 'the centre of attention'.
  • at the height of at the time when the situation was at its most intense.
  • defected left a country with a particular political regime in order to escape that system.
  • to wow to please, to impress.

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