Tag: English vocabulary

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

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Do you know the origin of this celebration? If you don’t, watch this video and find out more about this topic!

VOCABULARY

TO WONDER = to have an interest in knowing or learning something; to think about something with curiosity.
TO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS => This phrase is used as an INFORMAL and often somewhat IMPOLITE way to tell someone to stop watching or asking about something that is private.
BEHOLD! (interjection)= look!; see!
TO BUMP= to collide with; to hit against an object in a sudden and forceful way.
Bump
WHATEVER (slang)
PILGRIM= a person who makes a journey, often a long and difficult one, to a special place for religious reasons.

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SETTLEMENT= a place where people have come to live and where few or no people lived before.
FARMER= a person who operates a farm or cultivates a land.

farmer

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HARVEST= the season when crops are gathered from the fields or the activity of gathering crops.

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BLESSING= approval that allows or helps you to do something.

Thanksgiving crossword puzzle
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Visual Vocabulary 2

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Can you guess in what season was it taken?Landscape (1)

 Photo credit: Professor Bop / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND

These are wooden houses, houses made of wood:wooden houses

Photo credit: Cycling man / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND

This is a branch, it’s a part of a tree. On this branch there are six doves:

branch

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This is a tree trunk or ‘log‘:

tree trunk

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This is a fence, a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary. This is a wooden fence because is made of wood:

fence

Photo credit: Timothy Valentine / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA

This is a field,  an area of cleared enclosed land used for cultivation or pasture:

field

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“The audience” – What does it mean?

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The audience Photo credit: open hardware summit / Foter.com / CC BY

More example sentences from the web:

  • The audience always like love stories.
  • The audience cried when Marilyn died.
  • This forum provided a unique opportunity to present information on community colleges to a larger audience of researchers studying educational issues.

“Rude” – What does it mean?

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Rude Rude 2

A visual map of rude’s synonyms:

Rude - Synonyms

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Example sentences from the web:

  • He was rude to you, too; he never even noticed that you were in the room, after I came.
  • Mary ran away because Frank was rude to her. He told her that she’s getting fat.
  • Hans felt he had been rude to Sylvia, but he apologized immediately.

“Bogus” – What does it mean?

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Bogus

Example sentences from the web:

  • Some of the reviews on these sites are bogus, and even the real ones are written by people with an extreme experience to report – either an exceptionally good one or an outrageously bad one.
  • The address on that shipment turns out to be bogus —a rented mail drop.
  • It was just a bogus claim.

“To ascertain” – What does it mean?

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To ascertain

Thesaurus:

Ascertain - visual thesaurus

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Example sentences from the web:

  • She hasn’t told the truth as far as anybody can pretty much ascertain for anything significant in years.
  • The level of local government debt nationwide is hard to ascertain.
  • He looked at the sky to ascertain that a half day’s light remained.

Inane – What does it mean?

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Inane

Example sentences from the web:

  • He’s always making inane remarks.
  • Five minutes have passed since you started this inane conversation.
  • The film’s plot is inane and full of clichés.

Words from the example sentences you may not know:

– To yammer => (informal) to talk in an annoying way usually for a long time.
– Cliché => something that people have said or done so much that it has become boring or has no real meaning.

Elanguest YouTube Channel

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Elanguest has a fantastic YouTube channel where you can find a variety of videos with subtitles.

For instance, this is a video on English vocabulary (topic: hotel). It is perfect for those who are willing to review their vocabulary before going on holidays abroad. In this video, you can read, see, and hear all the most common words related to this topic:

Another video that could come in handy is on shopping vocabulary:

Elanguest’s videos are not only related to English vocabulary. For example, this one is on Active and Passive forms and their uses in English (Grammar):

The topic of the following video is Present simple/continuous:

“Unconditional” – What does it mean?

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Unconditional

Example sentences from the web:

  • No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
  • This position corresponds to the American strategy to accelerate unconditional liberalization of the world market.
  • After the disaster, there was so much unconditional love around people, they were ready to sacrifice their own lives for others, for strangers.

Unconditionally – Kate Perry

Oh no, did I get too close oh?
Oh, did I almost see what’s really on the inside?
All your insecurities
All the dirty laundry
Never made me blink one time

Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
There is no fear now
Let go and just be free
I will love you unconditionally

Come just as you are to me
Don’t need apologies
Know that you are all worthy
I’ll take your bad days with your good
Walk through this storm I would
I’d do it all because I love you, I love you

Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
There is no fear now
Let go and just be free
I will love you unconditionally

So open up your heart and just let it begin
Open up your heart, and just let it begin
Open up your heart, and just let it begin
Open up your heart
Acceptance is the key to be
To be truly free
Will you do the same for me?

Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
And there is no fear now
Let go and just be free
‘Cause I will love you unconditionally (oh yeah)

I will love you
I will love you
I will love you unconditionally

LyricsTraining link to this song: (Fill in the gaps).