Tag: New words
English4Gamers – Episode 6 – Super Mario Kart
The 6th episode of English4Gamers is out :-)! In this episode, we play Super Mario Kart, a racing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the first game of the Mario Kart series. I suggest that you read the vocabulary list before watching the episode ;-). I’ll upload an interactive quiz based on this episode tomorrow or Sunday. We are trying to improve, so if you have any suggestion, please, let us know :-).
New words in English: “clipped wing generation”; “genervacation”; “adultism”
clipped wing generation noun the generation of young adults who are unable to be independent of their parents because they cannot afford independent living costs, William Wragg, aged 28, is among …
Source: New words – 9 May 2016
“To juggle” – What does it mean?
Image 1 source; image 2 source
Example sentences from the web:
- Many parents find it hard to juggle children and career. (meaning 2)
- Charles juggled five tangerines! (meaning 1)
- Mark learnt to juggle five balls at once. (meaning 1)
- Sarah was hired as an administrator for her ability to juggle many tasks at once. (meaning 2)
Burning Millions’ Worth of Illegal Ivory
I suggest that you read the vocabulary list before watching the video ;-):
VOCABULARY
TUSK => a very long, large tooth that sticks out of the mouth of an animal (such as an elephant, walrus, or boar)
TO GO UP IN SMOKE => to burn up completely
STOCKPILE => a large supply of something that is kept for future use
TO TORCH => to set fire to (something, such as a building) deliberately : to cause (something) to burn
TRADE => the activity or process of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services
STUNT => something that is done to get attention or publicity
TO BAN => to forbid, to prohibit; to say that something cannot be used or done
TO POACH => to hunt or fish illegally
Test your knowledge of Education Vocabulary (IELTS Preparation)
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Vegetables – Visual vocabulary 8
Images source
A crossword on this topic (PDF file): worksheet – vegetables – crossword
The crossword’s answers (PDF file): worksheet – vegetables – crossword’s answers
Word Search Activity: Vegetables – Word Search Activity
WEIRD – What does it mean?
Example sentences from the web:
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Her boyfriend’s a bit weird but she’s nice. (meaning 1)
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We heard some weird sounds outside! We are scared now! (meaning 2)
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But something weird definitely happened here. (meaning 2)
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He stayed home on a Friday night?!? That’s weird. (meaning 1)
Visual Thesaurus
Some weird auditions on
America’s & Britain’s Got Talent
Weird news on Metro: http://metro.co.uk/news/weird/
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:
