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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

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Slang with pictures: fix


fix (1)

PICTURE SOURCE: preschoolers.about.com

Meaning: to influence the result of a contest, a vote, or a race by illegal or unethical means
For example:
  • The result of the football game was fixed by a group of gamblers who bribed the referee to make decisions that favoured one team.
  • The fixing of matches, or match-fixing, has been a problem in sports such as boxing and soccer.
Quick Quiz:
The judges who were involved in fixing the boxing match were
  1. congratulated on their work
  2. proud of their achievement
  3. arrested and sent to jail
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