🔘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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🔸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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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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Waiter Race🗞
People often call Buenos Aires, Argentina, ‘the Paris of the South’ as it takes great pride in its café culture. The city also annually hosts a waiter race.
Hundreds of waiters and waitresses take part in the race. They serve drinks to customers 1,600 metres away as quickly as possible.
There are different categories, and the winning prize is 1,000 US dollars.
Difficult words: annually (every year), prize (something which the winner gets).
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People often call Buenos Aires, Argentina, ‘the Paris of the South’ as it takes great pride in its café culture. The city also annually hosts a waiter race.
Hundreds of waiters and waitresses take part in the race. They serve drinks to customers 1,600 metres away as quickly as possible.
There are different categories, and the winning prize is 1,000 US dollars.
Difficult words: annually (every year), prize (something which the winner gets).
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