Here you can download the imx file: http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/IppMHyeP/agreeing-or-disagreeing-in-english
“Pilgrimage” – What does it mean?
Telephone – phrasal verbs
Here you can download the imx file: http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/TdstKce8/telephone-phrasal-verbs#
Take the quiz: Phrasal verbs related to a phone call
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“One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. DO IT NOW”. – Paulo Coelho
“Let sleeping dogs lie” – English idiom
“Acquaintance” – What does it mean?
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“To dispense” – What does it mean?
You can download or share this mind map also from biggerplate: http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/AmtxUlrq/to-dispense .
In “My Reverie” , a 1938 popular song, you can hear “dispense with”.
This is the lyrics:
Our love is a dream, but in my reverie
I can see that this love was meant for me
Only a poor fool never schooled in the whirlpool
Of romance could be so cruel as you are to me
My dreams are as worthless as tin to me
Without you life will never begin to be
So love me as I love you in my reverie
Make my dream a reality
Let’s dispense with formality
Come to me in my reverie
Our love is a dream, but in my reverie
I can see that this love was meant for me
Only a poor fool never schooled in the whirlpool
Of romance could be so cruel as you are to me
My dreams are as worthless as tin to me
Without you life will never begin to be
So love me as I love you in my reverie
Make my dream a reality
Let’s dispense with formality
Come to me in my reverie
My reverie
Here you can find other examples: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ .
In this song, you can hear how to pronounce “to dispense with”:
I can see that this love was meant for me
Only a poor fool never schooled in the whirlpool
Of romance could be so cruel as you are to me
My dreams are as worthless as tin to me
Without you life will never begin to be
So love me as I love you in my reverie
Make my dream a reality
Let’s dispense with formality
Come to me in my reverie
“Perfect humility dispenses with modesty”. – C.S. Lewis
If you don’t know what “dispenses with” means, check it up in the Vocabulary section ;-).
Here you can find other C.S. Lewis inspirational quotes: http://dailyinspirationblog.com/c-s-lewis-quotes/
“The early bird catches the worm” – English Idiom
Lingro
If you are English students and you want to improve your vocabulary/comprehension skills I suggest that you try this website. Lingro is an amazing resource if you want to read a blog, an online newspaper, etc. You just have to write the link of what you want to read (number one in the picture below). You can select a dictionary (as you can see, I marked “English dictionary” with a red rectangle, but it’s not the only one, there are also English-Spanish, Spanish-English, English-French, English-Italian, etc.).
This is the homepage:
Link: http://lingro.com/
For example, you want to read an article on the website http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ . Firstly, you have to find an article you like, for instance, I decided to read this one: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150406-california-drought-snowpack-map-water-science/
Then, you have to copy the article’s link. Done that, from within the lingro’s website, you can enter the URL.
It’ll appear like this:
You can notice that I selected (I clicked the left mouse button) “warming” and “scarcity” .
Afterwards, you can study the words you didn’t know. There’s the possibility to create wordlists:
You can also play with flashcards:
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