Tongue Twister


Sounds - /s/ and /ʃ/

She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure.
For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore
Then I’m sure she sells sea-shore shells.

Она продает морские ракушки на морском берегу.
Ракушки, которые она продает морские, я в этом уверен.
Раз она продает морские ракушки на морском берегу,
Я уверен, что она продает ракушки с морского побережья.

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🔸Business leaders gave an enthusiastic welcome to the proposal.

Enthusiastic – adjective - / ɪnˌθjuːziˈæstɪk / 🗣

👉 feeling or showing a lot of excitement and interest about somebody/something (увлечённый, восторженный)
Synonyms: eager, keen, avid
Opposites: apathetic

Example sentences:
🔸an enthusiastic supporter
🔸You don't sound very enthusiastic about the idea.
🔸She was even less enthusiastic about going to Spain.

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Tie the Knot - Idiom

👉 (informal) to get married (Пожениться. Фраза осталась от традиции связывать молодоженам руки лентой, чтобы их жизни были скреплены вместе на долгие годы.)

Example sentences:
▪️We tied the knot in a little chapel on the Arkansas border.
▪️They finally tied the knot.
▪️She's planning to tie the knot with her German boyfriend next June.

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Idiom

Put a Sock In It

👉 А это выражение более резкое – означает «заткнуться». Идея понятна – если засунуть себе носок в рот, человек не сможет говорить. Наверное, ее используют, когда предыдущая идиома не сработала.


Example sentences:
🔻 Can't you put a sock in it? I'm trying to work.
🔻 She's a really good audience, too; she'll listen to - and laugh at - my stupid jokes when everyone else just tells me to put a sock in it.

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🔘My first parachute jump was an exhilarating experience.

Exhilarating – adjective - / ɪɡˈzɪləreɪtɪŋ / 🗣

👉 very exciting and enjoyable (бодрящий, возбуждающий)
Synonyms: exciting, dramatic, heady

Example sentences:
🔘Young people often find danger rather exhilarating.
🔘an exhilarating walk on the cliffs
🔘It was exhilarating to be on the road again and his spirits rose.

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PROVERB

A good deed is never lost.

Перевод. Доброе дело даром не пропадет.

Русский эквивалент Доброе дело без награды не остается. Добро всегда вспомянется. За доброе дело жди похвалы смело. Доброе добром поминают.

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🔻He keeps fit by going to the gym.

Keep-fit – noun - /ˌkiːp ˈfɪt/ 🗣

👉 exercises that you do to stay healthy, especially in an organized class (быть здоровым)

Example sentences:
🔻Have you been doing your keep fit?
🔻keep-fit classes/sessions
🔻Home pools are not just there for keeping fit.

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🔸The 1989 revolution was by far the bloodiest in the country’s history.

By far - PHRASE

👉 used for saying that something has much more of a particular quality than anything else (значительно)

Example sentences:
🔸The last of these reasons is by far the most important.
🔸Amy is the smartest by far.
🔸Football is far and away the most popular sport in Britain.

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Idiom

Couch potato🥔📺

👉 A couch potato is someone who spends most of their time watching television and does not exercise or have any interesting hobbies (о человеке, ведущем пассивный и бездеятельный образ жизни)

Example sentences:
Lisa wantsto date a man who loves to travel and explore, not a couch potato who watches television all the time.
If there was a prize for the best couch potato, my husband would win it.
It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann

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Flowers will droop if you don't give them water.

Droop - (verb, noun) - /drup/🗣

👉To droop means ‘to hang down loosely or sink,’ as from weakness, exhaustion, or because there’s no proper support. (вянуть, наклон, упадок духа )
Synonyms: sagging, sinking, hanging down

Example sentences:
🔹The plants drooped in the hot sun.
🔹Exhausted from a long day's work, the laborer's arms drooped at his sides.
🔹The sun is drooping in the west.
🔹Morale drooped when we heard the funding for the project had been withdrawn.

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