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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
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Boy survives a cold flight

Boy survives a cold flight:







Boy survives a cold flight - level 3

1.- Stowaway    
    stowaway   stowaways
A stowaway is a person who hides in a ship, aeroplane, or other vehicle in order to make a journey secretly or without paying.
   The crew discovered the stowaway about two days into their voyage.
2.- Consciousness
Consciousness is the state of being awake rather than being asleep or unconscious. If someone loses consciousness, they become unconscious, and if they regain consciousness, they become conscious after being unconscious.
   She banged her head and lost consciousness.
   He drifted in and out of consciousness.
3.- Spot
spot   spots   spotting   spotted 
            If you spot something or someone, you notice them.
                Vicenzo failed to spot the error.
                He left the party seconds before smoke was spotted coming up the stairs.

 4.-Wander
If you wander in a place, you walk around there in a casual way, often without intending to go in any particular direction.
                When he got bored he wandered around the fair.
                They wandered off in the direction of the nearest store.
                Those who do not have relatives to return to are left to wander the streets and sleep rough. 
5.- Foremost (most importantly
6.- Concern
Concern is worry about a situation.
                The European Community has expressed concern about reports of political violence in Africa.
                The move follows growing public concern over the spread of the disease.
                As the militants gather, there is concern that the protest might again run out of control.
                There is no cause for concern.
7.- Unharmed      
    unharmed  
If someone or something is unharmed after an accident or violent incident, they are not hurt or damaged in any way.
   The car was a write-off, but everyone escaped unharmed.
   His eleven-year-old daughter was unharmed in the attack.
   The nine crew on the Boeing 747 were released unharmed.
ADJ: ADJ after v, v-link ADJ  
= unscathed  
(c) HarperCollins Publishers.







Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Google+ SAT Vocabulary Words | GRE Vocabulary words - Videos for GRE SAT Prep > Vocabulary Videos > Recuperate

Do you want to learn new words and grammar faster, and to remember more of what you learn without needing to revise?
Of course you do! Who wouldn’t want that?
The great news is that the secret to better learning isn’t to spend an extra five hours staring at your textbook. In fact, it is very simple. You have to enjoy yourself while you’re learning!

Friday, May 19, 2017

Macht-up results



-first-class - Very good; of the highest quality.
Usage: The power of the lantern seemed increased a hundredfold, like a lamp through the lenticular plates of a first-class lighthouse.
stolid - Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited.
Synonyms: impassive
Usage: Her face showed nothing but stolid indifference.
stouthearted - Brave; courageous.
Synonyms: stalwart
Usage: Undaunted by the storm, the stouthearted park ranger proceeded with his search for the missing hiker.
unflinching - Showing neither fear nor indecision; resolute.
Usage: He held a silent combat with his inward agony, defying, meanwhile, my sympathy with an unflinching, ferocious stare.
capricious - Characterized by or liable to sudden unpredictable changes in attitude or behavior.
Synonyms: whimsicalimpulsive
Usage: My wife's capricious mood swings are beginning to worry me, and I fear she may need professional help.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Google+ Vocabulary (English C2) GUTTERSNIPE



References in classic literature?
This is a dexterous little cosmopolitan guttersnipewho can do scores of things, not only shoot, but draw and paint, and probably play the fiddle.
So that thousands of poor English people trembled before a mysterious chieftain with an ancient destiny and a diadem of evil stars--when they are really trembling before a guttersnipe who was a pettifogger and a pawnbroker not twelve years ago.
the one an inky, rusty old canoe with a sable hearse-body clapped on to the middle of it, and the other a mangy, barefooted guttersnipe with a portion of his raiment on exhibition which should have been sacred from public scrutiny.
I shall make a duchess of this draggletailedguttersnipe.
Shaw's tale of the humble Cockney guttersnipewho is transformed into a lady leaving her flower basket behind for a life among London's middle classes was the inspiration behind the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady, becoming one of the most beautiful musicals in cinema history.
Gingrich, a longtime specialist in guttersnipepolitics adept at smearing his opponents as traitors or saying they should be jailed, attacked Romney for taking money from millionaires while himself welcoming $11 million from a billionaire casino magnate and his wife from Las Vegas, the nation's capital of family values.
The role of Eliza Doolittle, the young cockneyguttersnipe who is transformed, Pygmalion-like, into an upper crust English lady as part of a bet by Professor Henry Higgins, is one of the best known in musical theater.
Forbidden insults have included coward,guttersnipe, hooligan, rat, stool pigeon, swine, and traitor.
While certainly not the prettiest girl at the dance with its cut-off forend, it has its own guttersnipeappeal with its gaping bore and military sights.
Thus, I don't have to go into any detail about the guttersnipe attacks and backstabbing Gov.