5 March 2016

GLOSSARY- UNIT 5

-Portrait: a likeness of a person of the face as a painting, drawing or photograph.
-Bansky: great graffity art.
-Pinatoteca: a painting museum.
-(To) salt: to spread salt on so as to melt snow or ice.
-Barrel: a rounded container for liquids.
-Rinse: to wash lightly, as by pouring water over as a final stage in washing.
-Stamp: to strike with a forceful, strong, downwards movement or push of th foot.
-Firm: a commercial company, business.
-Parcel: an object wrapped up to form a small bundle, a package.
-Dams: a barrier to obstruct or control the flow of water, built across a stream or river.
-Warehouse: to place, deposit or store.
-Block: a large, solid piece of wood, stone, etc.
-Jellyfish: a stinging, jellylike sea creature.
-Slash: to cut with a violent sweeping stroke, as with a knife or sword.

GLOSSARY-UNIT 4

-Toll: a fee demanded by an authority for some rights or privilege, as for driving along a road.
-Cell: the most basic unit of structure of an organism.
-Look down to a person/ Look up to a person.
-Unknown: not within the range of knowledge, unfamiliar.
-Give him a lift.
-Run his eyes.
-Give up: surrender.
-Screw: nail-like metal fastener, having a thin end with a spiral groove and a head with a slot.
-Roof: the outside, upper covering of a building.
-You won't be to any use.
-Naughty: disobedient, mischivous.
-Fit to drink.
-Dial: a plate or disk on a clock or watch, containing markings upon which the time of day is indicated by hands or pointers.
-Ill: sick, unwell of poor health.
-Pain: physical suffering, grat discomfort.
-Get fired.
-To earn a lot of money.
-Run away: to flee, with no intent to return.
-Busy: actively working on something.
-Apologize: to offer an apology or excuse for some fault, insult, failure or injury.
-Quickness: speed.
:-Sneeze: to produce air on breath suddenly, forcibly, and loudly through the nose and mouth by involuntary action.
-Get into trouble.

LOOK UP.
-Lonely: having or suffering from a depressing feeling caused by being alone, lonesome.
-Isolation: to set or place apart, separate so as to be alone.
-Insane: mentalyy unsound, mad.
-Roam:  to travel without purpose, wander.
-To graze up my knees.
-The sooner, the better!
-Alone: separate, apart by oneself.
-Learn to coexist: learnlo live with other people.
-Graze: to scrape the skin from.
-Steeple: a tower having an ornamental top in the shape of a spire, built on a church, public bulding, etc.

17 January 2016

GLOSSARY-UNIT 3

-Law: the principles, and regulations set up by a government, other authority, or by custom, that apply to all the people of a group.
-Lawyer:  a person whose profession is to represent clients in a curt of law.
-Attorney: a person legally appointed or empowered to act for another.
-Murder: to kill (a person) and deliberately.
-Pickpocket: one who steals from the pockets of people, as in crowded public place.
-Mugger: a person who steal something on the street whith a knife.
-Thief or burglar: a person who break into your house.
-Hooligan: a young hoodlum.
-Hijacker: a person who seize a vehicle by threat or by force.
-Kidnap: to carry off a person by force or trickery.
-Hose: a flexible tube for carrying a liquid such as water, to desired a point.
-Passer-by: a person passing by.
-Crew: a group of people working together.
-Bullet: a small piece of metal fired from a gun.
-Flat: horizontally level.

30 November 2015

GLOSSARY-UNIT 2

-Finnish: Finland
-Return/single tickets: coming back/going away ticket.
-Casualties: one who is injured or killed in an accident.
-Thanked: to say thank you.
-Wipe out: to destroy completely.
-Fields: where you grow crops.
-Lead to: to go before or with show the way.
-Drown: to die from being put under water.
-Four-year-old boy: a boy with four years old.
-Shocked: a sudden blow or impact. (you don't speak, you don't know where you go)
-To pretend: you simulate.
-Fighting huge flames.
-Thick smoke: dense smoke.
-Unable: lacking the necessary power, ability, competence, time, etc, to accomplish some act. ("You couldn't put put the fire").
-Put out: extinguish.
-Break out: to start.
-Buildings collapse: buildings falls, get trapped.
-As=while.
-Aid: to provide support (for) or relief (to) help.
-Shelter: place where you are safe.
-Lightning: a brilliant flash in the sky.
-Drift: a driving movement, as of a current of water.

21 November 2015

GLOSSARY- LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE

VOCABULARY:
- Ripple: to form a small waves, as water when a breeze disturbs it.
- Flashlight / batteries: also called torch, small poprtable electric lam powered by dry batteries.
- Pantry: a small room near a kitchen, in wch food, dishes, etc, are kept.
-Canned food: food keep in bottles.
- Instruction/ plan: a way, idea, or method of acting, proceeding, etc., developed in advance.
- Give way: earthquake safer homes.
- Steel: a form of iron made with carbon.
- Hazard/ bad: something causing danger, peril, risk or difficulty.

EXPRESSIONS:
- Rub against each other.
- Television stop working.

8 November 2015

GLOSSARY-UNIT 1

-Knight: a man who is given a title of knighthood by a king.
-Rule the world: control the world.
-Stir: to mix or agitate with a continuous movement of a spoon, a stick, etc.
-Knot: a tying tightly together of the two end of a cord.
-Valley girl: posh, with high class.
-Suitcase: a piece of luggage, for carrying clothes while traveling.
-Luggage: suitcases, trunks, etc.
-Crutch: a staff of support to assist a person in walking, usually having a crosspiece at one end to fit under the armpit.
-Turf: a layer of matted formed by grass and plant roots.
-Sprained: to overstrain or twist the ligaments around a joint.
-Travel abroad: travel to another country.
-Schedule: a plan of procedure to achieve a goal.
-Host: give your accomodation.
-Misty: foggy.
-Bow: arch, lips, boyfriend or girlfriend, the begining part of a boat.
-Dye: a coloring material or matter.
-Die: stop being alive. It's a cube with numbered faces.
-Dai: David in Welsh.
-Be able; can.
-Not anymore/ no more.




5 October 2015

GLOSSARY-INTRODUCTION

-Inpolite: showing bad manners.
-Stumble to strike the foot against something, as in running, so as to trip or fall.
-Landmark: a feature in the landscape or an object in an area that is easily noticed or that serves as a guide, as to ships at sea or to travelers on a road. 
-Wrist: the part of the end of the arm where it joins the hand.
-Trendy: of or relating to the latest trend or style.
-Ciff: a high, steep rock face,precipice.
-To tumble: to strike the foot against something, as in running, so as to trip or fall. 
-Under construction: being built or repaired.
-To put on weight: to put fat.
-Rules are meant to be broken.