¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English: Proficiency. The living planet: 03-11-2011

!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, November 3, 2011

Proficiency. The living planet: 03-11-2011

THE LIVING PLANET.
RESOURCES
While human creativity and technology have blossomed, we have steadily been destroying the resources of the planet on which we depend for our survival.
ENVIRONMENT
When we tamper with the environment, it is not just nature which suffers.
DESTRUCTION:
We have come to the end of a millennium of relentless and accelerating destruction of the world around us.
HABITATS
Ecologically, our natural habitats provide services without which life on the planet would become impossible.
ECOLOGY
While human creativity and technology have blossomed, we have steadily been destroying the ecology of the planet on which we depend for our survival.

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CLIMATE:
ARID: DRY.
PRONE TO: TENDING TO HAVE A PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTIC.
DROUGHT: PERIOD WITHOUT RAIN.

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deep-seated discuss
Definition:	(adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
Synonyms:	deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained,planted
Usage:	He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.

misconstrue
Definition:	Interpret in the wrong way.
Synonyms:	be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misinterpret

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