Disclaimer: unofficial & reflects no official position.
Intended 1.to save what's wiped off the white-board !
2.And maybe help you.
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NB the usual meaning of SWOT is empollon, to swat up asuject, empollarla.
In this fil trailer it is translated as "pringao" because of other students' envy.
a grant-aided school competitive civil-service examinations tenure freedom environment compulsory uniform a dress code subject a pupil = a student = a schoolchild(schoolboy/girl/child) desk
false friend : notes = a) UK a public school is not state education
a life-long friend , a lifelong hobby, etc make up = confeccionar, inventar (incluso mentiras) maquillar(se) y por el estilo cervantes made Sancho panza up.Sancho panza is a fictional character. Make up with = reconcialiarse con. Mark hasn't made up with his wife, they are divorced
I grew up with my cousins, we all lived in a big house in the country. My mother died when I was 5 , so my stepmother brought me up/ raised me/ reared me Syntax can change things: Talking is better than fighting = It's better to talk than to fight -cf 'd/had better: We'd better talk(sin to) to get on +o- with somone forgetful?
Let's start : Schools EDUCATE people (Till they are first literate and numerate, then trained,learned, and knowledgeable .............. for details see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6YeH1nlvs )
So: An educated person has a good Academic record-and it shows!
They aren't uneducated.
Contrast:
Parents BRING UP their children aka kids.
(Esp. In the USA, we also say to RAISE kids and to REAR kids) Parents(noun) are always parenting!(intransitive verb)! = bringing up kids= giving kids an upbringing =raisng kids =rearing kids.
(Cf"to father" a child =engendrar, to mother a child = miar , probably overprtectively when they are grownup)
SO Their children can be Well-brought-up people.... (wellraised, wellreared,wellbred) They Behave well.
If they are wellbroughtup aka wellreared aka wellraised ake well-bred They have Good Manners. They mind their manners.They are polite.
For example
It isnt't good manners, it's Bad Manners to pick your nose, yawn or scratch your head: You will be considered ill-bred! -or badly broughtup! -or rude ! - or impolite! BBC :Beijingers told to mind their manners
"Beijing citizens have been told not to ? when talking to foreigners during the Olympics. They have also been given a list of things not to ask overseas visitors...+ Subjects to avoid.../."
MORE on the family
To look like is for appearance, mostly
A lookalike is a synonym for a double, especialy talking about celebs.
to take afteris inheriting some characteristic(s)
A "Chip off the old block " is someone identical,almost ,to their parent/forebear in appearance or behaviour or achievements , or all three.
Like father, like son, or like mother like daughter, sayings to indicate such
The telegraph captioned the above as Brookln Beckham"TAKING AFTER"
his father(Beckham)in Football skills
Learning Suggestion : if this vocabulary is OTT for you, try personalizing it all :apply it to yourself, friends, relatives....
eg John's a chip off the old block, he and his father both...
Finally some disconnected odds and ends from PROES and desdobles.
A Few points:
Advice:
BEWARE: Food vocabulary is one of those endless specialized black holes that you can spend a lifetime learning! (And thank God we don't have the 3rdworld problem of starving, or only a little better,being undernourished, or ill-fed , and illnourished at best. Westerners are overfed)
And there are many, many, other things you need to learn, or to perfect!
So, my advice is KNOW WHEN TO STOP! AND Learn to talk ABOUT food.
Probably more important than just
Vocabulary!
A few tips:
use category words, Eg for cooking methods: Boiled,(+0r- hard- or soft-) Baked, Roast, SpitRoast, Fried, DeepFried, StirFried, Stewed, Broiled, Grilled, Barbecued, Toasted, Steamed, Stuffed,Poached.... DON'T expect to be able to give an EXACT equivalent, very often an exact equivalent DOES NOT EXIST! It's usually better to DESCRIBE a dish than to try to translate the SPANISH NAME. (example from English: Do you know what "Toad in the hole"(click 4 link) is ? Let's translate the NAME of the dish: "SAPO EN EL HOYO"* Does this communicate ANYTHING? Would YOU ask for that to eat! No? Well, the same thing happens if you talk about a "Cubanish ricish dish" or " Daymeal of the sleeve" (Genuine menu examples) for "Arroz a la cubana " or "menestra manchega": English-Speakers will be lost!
salt &pepper areSEASONINGS
Anyway, just as in Spanish, just as in Spain, the same DISH may be called differently even from one family to another , let alone one region to another, or over the Atlantic!
Some Spanish dishes are known by the Spanish name, eg Paella (Historical note: olla podrida= cocido madrileno, but it isn't used in English anymore except as a literary figure. If you say it to the average English person they'll think you're talking about something else)
Don't confuse, plate, dish, fabada is the national dish of asturias, and course, a six-course meal is typical at weddings
Alright, if you MUST know, "Turron" is "almond and honey -based sweetmeats typical at Christmas and somewhat akin to nougat".Now you know.It's beginning to be sold in England as Turron.
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TALKING about a (healthy/unhealthy etc) DIET remember, to go/be on a diet = to diet Category words: Proteins, carbohydrates, Fats and oils, fibre, meat, fish, seafood, shellfish(included in seafood) , Fruit, nuts, eggs , dairy produce/products , veg.(=vegetables), pulses (included in veg.), pastas, bread, cakes &pastries, sweets (candies in USA) & biscuits (cookies in usa) adj.s: whole , junk, fast, traditional, tinned, frozen, dried, preserved, fresh, oily, fatty, fattening,(fatty =contains fat, fattening=make you fat pastas are fattening, bacon is very fatty), Rich (=fuerte), hot (usually=spicey=picante), nourishing, wholesome , burned/burnt, overdone, underdone, raw (crude is unusual for food, but it's in "oliver" for the rhyme) Pronunciation Dairy rhymes with scary, fairy, , don't confuse with Diary which rhymes with fire +y, How often ..do you have ...?, how much...? once a week etc
( Pronunciation : omit syllables: chocolate vegetable, camera,omelette different)
frutos secos= fruit and nuts: Fruit and nut chocolate
Pr :soup versus soapSoup rhymes with too, clue. true, soAp with hope, no, coat. THIS mistake causes much confusion."supper" rhymes with upper, mother, brother, lover, etc. recipe: final "e" sounds /i:/. Doctors PRESCRIBE medicines. they give you a Prescription.
False Friends.
Preserved foods, sometimes callled preserves are often preserved with PRESERVATIVES.(English cooks living in Spain nearly always cause amusement asking for these in shops)
You CONSERVE nature.There are special parks called "conservation Areas". Greens are usually conservationists. Conservationism.
Pickles are PICKLED food, preserved with vinegar.
Pulses: beans, lebtils, chickpeas etc (included in veg.) How often ..do you have ...?, how much...? once a week etc healthy/ unhealthy fattening/fatty pastas are fattening, bacon is very fatty
-If you are eating unhealthily, are undernourished(=badly or insufficiently fed,) etc , your HAIR can: look lifeless, lose its sheen, look dull.......women often complain about having "a bad-hair day!"
-ache /eIk/ only compounds possible are headache, backache,earache, toothache, and ALL the informal synonyms of stomachache: belly ache, tummyache, gutsache
- -Check: blood pressure tension=tension, but with blood, NOT
-I am allergic to pollen = I have an ALLERGY TO POLLEN - To get up zombie (= halfasleep) Zombie is too informal for exams
-Avoid brusque and sudden movements in pregnancy, etc In pregnancy she had an unexpected craving for oysters in strawberry sauce
-To deal with a situation, =be able to manage it, respond adequately to it (approx=poder con)
he's INSANE,a
case of INSANITY
-remember: insane is a false friend,, =mad SANITY=mental health, sane =mentally healthy,=cuerdo
Warm-up
Here's a hit from the 50s. Disney put the music in the "PeterPan"film, but not the words:http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6958155265045111306&postID=6743532920590573126
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