points on health, fitness,etc

-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 

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-Check: blood pressure    tension=tension, but with blood, NOT


-I am allergic to pollen  = I have an  ALLERGY TO POLLEN
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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




















































































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-hood, etc Various points-

Childhood

 motherhood

- HOOD suffix, for example, , childhhood:


Like Spanish, There is sometimes  the fact of being, sometimes the TIME of being, sometimes both, and more. Compare  Childhood , the  years that you ARE a child,=niñez, with Motherhood, = maternidad, the fact of being a mother
Let's look at words meaning a period of time in your life: with all these, you say "In my..In her.., In..etc
babyhood  (latin root + anglosaxon suffix .We can also  use infancy)
Childhood (, which males can call boyhood and females girlhood)
Adolescence (from the latin. cf an adolescent)
*youth1 ( , say, preteen or late teens to ? the word is used very elastically)
Adulthood (again, latin root +hood)( You can use manhood and womanhood  for reaching maturity, tho more often they are used with other meanings, maturity isnt used much as a period of life) manhood**, for men , and womanhood**, for women,are also sometimes used in this sense.
(+ or - early/late )middle age 
old age ( we seldom use the old-fashioned dotage)
When she  was a child.../.. is the same as In her childhood....or even, when the context is clear, just In childhood
When she was a child, she studied with the nuns= in her childhood, she studied with the nuns.
*Polysemy: The word Youth gives Spaniards problems: it also has a countable meaning2 as "young man "Male ONLY. 
Be careful, if you use "the youth" THIS is the meaning Englishspeakers will understand.
-As well as a period of a person's life, it also has the same collective general meaning 3, young people in general, all young people, male and female , WITH zero article (like faith, hope charity etc) meaning the same as La Juventud, in Spanish, and in modern English, typically taking a plural verb.
In his youth1 , the youth 2stayed in a Youth3 Hostel  
The adjective "youthful"(=juvenil) again is applied to bothsexes, and comes from meaning 1.
That actress only maintains her youthful face by plastic surgery
** more polysemy: manhood2 especially is used to translate the ideal characteristics of a man, = hombria, bravery, gravitas, authority, justice, or perhaps the somewhat more physically capable ones= redbloodednesss,virility (virilidad), and 3 via metaphorical extension, the word is used as a semi-tabu euphemism for the male genitalia . Womanhood is used much less in equivalent meanings.
-Other
You must have met "neighbourhood"(often shortened to 'hood in USA
A hoodie is a garment with a hood(=Capucha,  remeber little red riding-hood and the wolf), or a young neighbour(hood) person in a hoodie - , just normal or perhaps dangerous or vanadalistic
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Follow-up questions/remarks
To make  do an exam
to go upstairs/downstairs: eg I was going downstairs when I fell.
 a pencil-case
to hit 
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to punch
in foot ball, to head. Zidane scored. he headed the ball into the goal
I Tripped. I tripped over a big stone in the road.
Buildings etc: to be under construction/repair
a physiotherapist
the till
the check-out
to be sick 1= to be ill 2=to vomit
---->adjective:sickeningThis book is sickening! = es vomitivo 


































































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odd vocabulary: Music, human noise verbs

A. For music
a musical
a singer
a group of singers (eg in church)= a choir Note: pronunciation ch /kw.../
cf. : an orchestra / ch =  /k/
Mozart was a  classical composer
classical is not = classic
 a song-writer makes up the words, the lyrics
 several pop musicians= a band , or a group
live or recorded/"canned".(live /ai/, adjective NOT the verb to live /I/)
perform, performance, a live performance
 a hit
a catchy tune 
a revival 
to busk/a busker
Other:  
to hose, a hose The firefighter is hosing the building to put out the fire.
to ban, a ban is not = a bang,to bang. Note a ban on eg a ban on smoking, but the verb ban has no preposition: They have banned smoking in schools.
Human noises and verbs : 
try to find the sound on internet of :
a/to sneeze, a/to whisper, a/to yawn ,a/to scream , a/to whistle , a/to shout, to/a  moan


Notice also: To ring a doorbell vs
To knock on/at a door.

18th Oct odd points

1Dont say  militar say "military" NB the "a" is often silent.

This US use is coming into "Britspeak" aka modern/forward UK English. It always existed as an adjective "military uniforms" But now we also say "the military"  as in The military tend to be more socially conservative.
My father is a military.

Trad uk use : The (+ or- Armed) services/ forces = (trad US) the military

--->A serviceman/men 
CF a civil servant (funcionario)

For the Army :(tierra)a soldier, soldiers (To INCLUDE officers and generals) Eg Franco was a soldier.

For the Navy : Sailor  (equally the same word for all ranks, rating to admiral) ( same word as for civilians, Columbus was a sailor)
The air force is new , but airman/men/woman/women exist

Lord Nelson was a sailor

My grandad was a soldier/a sailor/an airman in WWI.

 2. mind + ......ing  
Not: mind +to infinitive
"I seldom mind hearing music" I Wouldn't mind another beer" "I wouldn't mind having one either!"
3. A long face= A sad face 
Not everything is a false friend!

4. an sms on a cell(=mobile)  phone -->to text , texting, texted etc.

I am unfamiliar with texting

I dont often text bkoz b4 4u  k 

5. formal clothes vs.casual clothes. but you can use informal

videos for revising with:

hope and wish 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq5g88qpwb8&feature=related

The next two are prepositions:
http://naproe.blogspot.com/2010/05/revising-prepositions.html 
http://nbproe.blogspot.com/2010/05/prepositions-few-links.html

perfect or perfect continuous?Examples from fantastic four comics

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has arrived
has been working
has been helping

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