Ficha 8.3. Since he is out of the closet she is daunted in her endeavour to mate .

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Álvaro de lanzas

🔗. Veremos en ficha posterior .

🚣🚣🚣. SINCE ,en el sentido de “Debido a , porque ,como” …… con “since”decimos una premisa para luego una consecuencia.
Efectivamente un conector muy bueno es SINCE cuando queremos decir “debido a”o “porque” ………..➡️➡️debido a su salida del armario todo ha vuelto a su cauce …….. Since he is📍out of the closet things are back on track ……….. ➡️➡️Como no toleramos tu comportamiento te metemos en el internado ……….since we are not putting up with your behaviour we’ve 📍put you up in a boarding school ………. ….

🚨🚨.↗️.TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET ……..salir del armario………..↗️.TO PUT SOMEBODY UP ………alojar a alguien , hospedarlo. En España a veces decimos “meterlo en un sitio” cuando te refieres a un hijo del que estás harto y te quieres deshacer de él en verano , por ejemplo.

🚣🚣🚣.💯💯. TRICKY WORDS.

↗️MISCARRIAGE ………. A golpe de vista parece querer decir “descarriarse ” pero significa ✔️aborto espontáneo , natural . Cuidado con los matices del inglés porque ✔️aborto voluntario es ↗️ABORTION.
↗️EVENTUALLY …… No es eventualmente , ya lo vimos , sino al final , finalmente . Similar a ↗️IN THE END.

🚣🚣🚣.🔗🔗. De la ficha 8.1.

↗️.TO PAY OFF…………. Frasal muy utilizado con tres acepciones que por orden de importancia exponemos
🚦Salir bien , resultar bien algo, …………➡️➡️. Tu artimaña para engañar al jefe salió bien ………..Your 📍ruse to fool the boss paid off ..
🚦Pagar una deuda, cancelarla…………. ➡️➡️Mi cuñado no pagó la deuda de la casera y la pagó en especie ……… My brother in law didn’t pay off the rent to the landlady and had to 📍pay it in kind.
🚦Pagar finiquito ……….. ➡️➡️Esta mañana llegó el abogado preparado para pagar el finiquito a cuarenta trabajadores ………. This morning came the lawyer ready to pay forty employees off . ( 💠se puede separar pay off en esta acepción y en la anterior ,no así en la primera . Esto se coge oyendo mucho más que con reglas )
🚦. Una última acepción es ….sobornar . Aunque es más técnico utilizar el ↗️.TO BRIBE ………….sin embargo como sustantivo ↗️.PAY-OFF …….soborno ….se oye frecuentemente .

↗️ENDEAVOUR…….. ✔️.Esfuerzo. Tiene el sinónimo de EFFORT….,pero con el matiz de continuidad en el tiempo . Parece que cuando decimos ENDEAVOUR queremos expresar que hay varios “efforts”. …………… ➡️➡️El esfuerzo en construir el Titanic necesitó de un gran esfuerzo de ingenieros y soldadores ………….. The endeavour in building up the Titanic required a huge effort of engineers and 🔗.brazers.

↗️.COMPUSURE ……✔️. Calma , compostura …… … Puede ir con los verbos KEEP , MAINTAIN , REGAIN ……. … ➡️➡️Tienes que recobrar la compostura …… You’ve got to regain your composure …….. ➡️➡️O tienes que mantener la compostura …… You’ve got to maintain your composure .

↗️.TO TOW ……..Remolcar.

🚣🚣🚣.WORD of the DAY

↗️.DAUNTED ……… ……. Generalmente va en pasiva ….🔹BE DAUNTED ………. Estar desalentado , desalentarse , desanimado ……….en 8.2 vimos 🔹DESPONDENT …… descorazonado , abatido. ( son fáciles memorizar juntas )………. ➡️➡️.después de treinta entrevistas de trabajo estoy desanimado , como no voy a estarlo ! Me piden que sepa ingles y no tengo ni idea y ya entrando en los cuarenta me siento abatido …………. After thirty job interviews I’m daunted , how couldn’t I be ! , I’ve been asked to know English but I’m 📍clueless and 🔻SINCE I’m 🔗 getting on for forty I’m feeling despondent .
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↗️.💯💯. MISERABLE …… Esta otra palabra es “tricky word”porque no significa miserable cuando lo referimos a una persona . En ese caso miserable o despreciable sería 🔗CONTEMPTIBLE o DESPICABLE ( 7.1) o más urbano podríamos decir 🔗SCUMBAG .
MISERABLE …….es triste ,abatido también .

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🚨🚨.↗️RUSE ……..ardid,artimaña ……….↗️TO PAY IN KIND ……….pagar en especie ………….↗️BE CLUELESS OF ……………No tener ni idea de …

PODCAST .BBC 4. Thought for the day.

Thought for the Day – 26/06/2014 – Rev Professor David Wilkinson
DURATION: 02:54
Good morning. Is biting a defender worse than spitting at them, or indeed a manager head-butting a member of the opposition? Luis Suarez has seemingly done it again, provoking headlines of ‘Jaws III’, a storm of condemnation from a majority of pundits and the need for FIFA to act quickly for the sake of the World Cup.

If found guilty of biting Giorgio Chiellini, then Suarez faces a lengthy ban. In a post-match interview Suarez said that ‘situations arise on the pitch’ and therefore there was ‘no need to make a story out of it’. Now, of course there’s always been a certain amount of dark arts in cricket, rugby and football, although Norman Hunter biting your legs was never a literal description.

FIFA’s disciplinary proceedings will explore an infringement of codes and then if proven how such infringement should be punished. Yet there is a bigger picture here than just whether certain actions cross the boundary of the outer edge of acceptability on a football field. And that picture is certainly bigger than maintaining the FIFA brand with corporate sponsors or a possible transfer to Barcelona.

The bigger picture is more about the spirit of a game, the way it respects laws rather than simply pushes them to the limit. It takes into account that behaviour influences the next generation, and that we have a responsibility for the legacy of a beautiful game.

Often sport can be a small window into our wider culture. It seems to me that there is a tendency to concentrate on the outer edge of the law, judging what is right or wrong by degrees, rather than seeing the principles at the centre – whether it be in the banking crisis or phone hacking or tax avoidance. Jesus was often confronted with such a tendency. Some teachers of the law, so concerned with being right with God, drew circles of acceptability around what you should do on the Sabbath or who you could eat with. By contrast Jesus was never concerned with those outer limits, he was more concerned to point to God’s love, mercy and justice as the source and inspiration of moral behaviour. He was also committed to the individual who needs help, as has been suggested for Suarez

It is possible to try and shape behaviour by continually legislating, policing and condemning – and my own Christian tradition has not been immune from that. But I want a society which celebrates and promotes the bigger picture rather than just the limits of acceptability. Just because it’s not illegal, doesn’t mean that it is good. After all I want footballers who know not to bite opponents, rather than a world where it is compulsory that they wear gum shields.

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Ficha 8.2. A streaker and a heckler combined pestering the despondent man having loose stools

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Álvaro de lanzas

🔗 .veremos en ficha posterior
💯incorporamos nueva sección … Palabras trampa del inglés o falsos amigos del ingles .TRICKY WORDS.

🚣🚣. SINCE versus FROM …….. …..recordamos que SINCE es “desde ……” pero💠 no cerramos el periodo de tiempo que todavía continúa en el presente o si hablamos del pasado que continuó un momento posterior no concretado……veamos ….➡️➡️. Te estoy esperando desde la nueve y todavía no has llegado …….I’m waiting for you since nine o’clock and you haven’t come yet. ➡️➡️. El museo estuvo abierto desde las dos ,momento en el que entró un espontáneo ………. The museum was open since two o’clock , the time at which a 📍streaker showed up🔷creo que poner “the moment at …” es más forzado porque hablamos de un tiempo exacto.
Y qué pasa con FROM ……. También es “desde” pero el truco es que especificamos 💠 hasta cuando exactamente y debemos poner para cerrar el periodo TO o UNTILL/TILL ……… Veamos ………➡️➡️.la exposición abre desde marzo hasta octubre ……..the exposition is opened from March till October .➡️➡️. Las notas estarán colgadas en la pagina web desde hoy hasta septiembre ……. The reports will be displayed on the web page from today to September .

🚨🚨↗️.STREAKER ……. espontáneo que sale desnudo . Si no se desnuda y lo que hace es interrumpir un concierto ,obra de teatro o cualquier otro acto público entonces es un ↗️HECKLER. ( el inglés tiene un vocabulario extensísimo)

🚣🚣.🔗🔗. De la ficha 8.0 .
↗️.TO TAKE UP WITH ……. Hacerse amigo de alguien
↗️.TO PESTER…….molestar , dar la lata , tocar la moral
↗️.TO FIDDLE……….juguetear ,toquetear. ↗️.FIDDLE. recordemos que es …. violín ………….. ✅Tocar algo suavemente puede decirse ↗️TO FINGER. ✅Si es acariciar sexualmente se dice ↗️.TO FONDLE or TO PET pero si es ✅ ” meter mano”es ↗️.TO GROPE.

🚣🚣💯💯.TRICKY WORDS
↗️COMBINED ………. ……Significa ✔️en conjunto, combinado ………no confundamos con ALTOGETHER ……..que es ✔️en total,ni confundamos con ↗️.TOGETHER ………que es juntos. Veamos ………➡️➡️nuestro trabajo en conjunto salió bien …….our combined work🔗 paid off …………➡️➡️.el esfuerzo y templanza combinados son la clave del éxito ………….🔗endeavour and 🔗composure combined are the key for success . …….🔀……..➡️➡️.somos veinte en total ……..we’re twenty altogether ……..➡️➡️. Las ganancias de la colecta ascienden a seiscientos euros en total …………the 📍proceeds 📍add up to six hundred euros altogether…….➡️➡️.Los dos juntos tuvieron que remolcar el barco ………. Together // they both // both men….. had 🔗to tow the boat

 

↗️.CONSTIPATED……. no es constipado sino ✔️estreñido .↗️.COLD es constipado ………………….. las cagaleras o colitis se dice ↗️. WATERY STOOLS or LOOSE STOOLS ……. las primeras son liquidas y las “loose”son sueltas pero no llegan a ser líquidas 💩💩.

🚨🚨↗️. PROCEEDS …. Las ganancias de una colecta ( capacidad de síntesis tienen los ingleses , proceeds, y punto) . ↗️TO ADD UP TO ……ascender en total a…

🚣🚣.WORD OF THE DAY

↗️.UNFAZED. …….. Impávido , impertérrito .
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↗️.DESPONDENT……..abatido,descorazonado.
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PODCAST . BBC4 . Thought for the day .

Thought for the Day – 23/06/2014 – Rev Dr Jane Leach
DURATION: 02:57
The baptismal liturgy of the Church of England is in the news again. After consultation it seems that evil will not be disappearing after all. To many, this controversy may be a side show, but it does raise a central question for any family and any culture: what kind of promises do we want to make to our children about the world they will grow up in, and what kind of people will we strive to be in order to help create that world?
Evil is a strong word. And not at first sight, perhaps, one that seems to belong in a celebration of the life of a new baby. Rather it is precisely evil things and evil people that we want to keep away from a precious new life.

In some strands of Christian thought though, evil is conceived as having no existence in itself, but as the privation of good – the destruction and corruption of the abundant life that God has made. When we look at the evils from which we want to protect our children: the violence of gang culture or of the bullying of the internet, or the misery of drug addiction, we can see clearly that these are evils that destroy and corrupt life, but beyond these obvious manifestations there are other, perhaps more hidden forces at work, that might also be considered evil because they eat away at the abundant life we want for our children.

Recently I attended an education conference about peace, human rights and reconciliation. One of the themes that came through was the link between peace and justice, or in other language, the way in which gross inequality can fuel violent conflict. A strong recommendation made from the platform, was that western nations should encourage our children to have at least one in depth experience of life in a poor part of the world, and an American contributor spoke powerfully of the effect on his son’s career ambitions of three months spent in sub-Saharan Africa, that helped him to realise both the deprivation in which so many people live, and the fact that his own life can have a meaning and impact beyond the acquisition of the latest smart phone upgrades.

The New Testament describes the root of all evil as the love of money. Money itself and the things it can buy – even smart phones – are not considered evil, but a family life or a cultural life which becomes about nothing more than our own convenience, ambitions and entertainment, runs the risk of the twin evils of depriving others of what is good – and so contributing to the world’s instability – and of depriving our own children of a life worth investing in.

In such a cultural context, having a language of goodness and evil at our disposal is not a marginal matter but one of critical importance. So, although I am though not a member of the Church of England, I am glad to see the language of evil back in their baptismal liturgy. And I would value a more broad ranging public discussion about how we identify the evils against which we, in the west, need to turn our faces, if we are to create a safer, more sustainable and more inspiring world for our children.

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Ficha 0.5.🚘⛽️

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Álvaro de lanzas

🚣🚣🚣.Words of the week

 

↗️BY THE CARTLOADS ……. a carretadas , a montones

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