Jun 2, 2015

Idioms

Best thing since slide bread: is a good idea or plan
Barking up the wrong tree: you're looking in the wrong plce
Costs and arm and a leg it's used when someting is very expensive
Cry over spilt milk: to cry because of something you cannot change
Devils advocate: ser abogado del diablo
Elvis has left the building: th party is finished
Don't count your eggs before they hatched: no contar con ago antes de tenerlo seguro





Vocabulary unit 7

Runny nose: nariz moqueante
Rash: sarpullido
Symptons: bad things that happens to your body that means you are ill
Pills: pastillas
Swollen: inflamado
Lukewarm : not hot not cold, an intermediate temperature
Nickel: níquel
Mad: to become sick

Reported speech

PROGRESSIVE


This                          That
Today/This day        That day
These days               Those  days
Now                         Then
Ago                          Before
Last                          Before/Previous
Next                         Following
Tomorrow               The next/the following
Here                         There


PHRASES


Where do you live?                                         He asked me where I lived
What time does the train leave?                      He asked me what time the train left
Do you like fish?                                             He asked me if I like fish
Come here!                                                      He told me to come
Don't go!                                                          He told me not to go
Please, listen to me!                                         He asked me to listen to her

Unit 6 Vocabulary

Wondering alone: wlking unknowing where are you going.
Unwanted: without protection
 Mistread: to be cruel
well-meaning; someone that has good intentions.
Though + less: despiadado
Neglected: dejar de lado
Though + someone: someone that stands everything uncaring about it.
Though guy: chico mlo/ malote



Jan 20, 2015

Chapter 1

Bond: vinculo
Scenerary: escenografia
show off: boast (presumir de tener algo)
Chandelier: a huge lamp
Auction: casa the subasta.
Box: a close place in a theatre where you can see apart from the rest of the people.
Ghostly: do something like a ghost.
ray of light: rayo de luz.
terrorise: make someone feel very scary.
among: to be between
beneath: under
cellar: basement
imposing: impresionante grandioso
foyer: hall
depth: profundo
experience: to feel