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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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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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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Lexus Makes a Cardboard Car 🗞
Lexus created the first drivable cardboard car in the world. It is a life-size replica of Toyota’s new IS Saloon.
You can enter the car and move it backwards and forwards. It is something quite special.
Difficult words: cardboard (thick brown paper; the material in the picture), replica (an exact copy of something).
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Lexus created the first drivable cardboard car in the world. It is a life-size replica of Toyota’s new IS Saloon.
You can enter the car and move it backwards and forwards. It is something quite special.
Difficult words: cardboard (thick brown paper; the material in the picture), replica (an exact copy of something).
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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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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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Правильный ответ: ♠️✅
Перевод: Большое количество школ в Англии находится под управлением местных органов образования.
Пояснение: Школы не управляют сами собой, ими управляют местные органы образования, поэтому обращаем внимание на глагол в Passive voice - are run.
Перевод: Большое количество школ в Англии находится под управлением местных органов образования.
Пояснение: Школы не управляют сами собой, ими управляют местные органы образования, поэтому обращаем внимание на глагол в Passive voice - are run.
Правильный ответ: ♦️✅
Перевод:
- Мы пойдём на прогулку, даже если будет дождь?
- Да, но тогда мы возьмём наши зонтики.
Пояснение: По первой части предложения (Shall we go) делаем вывод, что это условное предложение 1 типа, которое строится по формуле:
Подлежащее + verb in Future Simple, if + подлежащее + verb in Present Simple
Перевод:
- Мы пойдём на прогулку, даже если будет дождь?
- Да, но тогда мы возьмём наши зонтики.
Пояснение: По первой части предложения (Shall we go) делаем вывод, что это условное предложение 1 типа, которое строится по формуле:
Подлежащее + verb in Future Simple, if + подлежащее + verb in Present Simple
Fire Tornado🗞
Portugal has had problems with forest fires this year. More than a third of forest fires in the EU all happened in Portugal.
A record of 268 fires in a single day was reported in August. Around 90% of the fires were started by people either by accident or on purpose.
Around 1,000 firefighters fought the fires, and 64 people died. The people were trying to flee the fire in their cars.
Most recently, someone filmed a rare ‘fire devil’ on camera in central Portugal. A ‘fire devil’ is a fire tornado which happens when a tornado touches fire.
Difficult words: report (talk about in the media), on purpose (when you do something on purpose, you want to do it), flee (escape; get away from).
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Portugal has had problems with forest fires this year. More than a third of forest fires in the EU all happened in Portugal.
A record of 268 fires in a single day was reported in August. Around 90% of the fires were started by people either by accident or on purpose.
Around 1,000 firefighters fought the fires, and 64 people died. The people were trying to flee the fire in their cars.
Most recently, someone filmed a rare ‘fire devil’ on camera in central Portugal. A ‘fire devil’ is a fire tornado which happens when a tornado touches fire.
Difficult words: report (talk about in the media), on purpose (when you do something on purpose, you want to do it), flee (escape; get away from).
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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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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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