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WORD
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DEFINITION
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Bid
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to offer (a certain sum) as the price
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Broadcast
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to sent out information on the radio or TV
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Claim
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Say somenthing is good or useful
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Promote
|
tell people about a service or product to
make it popular
|
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Appear
|
perform or speak where you are seen
by a lot of people
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Appeal
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to be attractive or interesting for people
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Spoonful
|
as much as a spoon can hold
|
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Gap year
|
Period of time when you don’t work in your job and you do other
activities
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Local kennel
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Place where dogs live
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Killjoy
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Person who likes to spoil people’s enjoyment
|
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Broadcast
|
To speak or present on a
radio or televisión program
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Unit 2 - Vocabulary
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Idioms (1st part)
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IDIOMS
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MEANING
OR CONTEXT
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It’s a no-brainer
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It’s an easy decisión
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Hit the books
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study very hard
|
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When pigs fly
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It will never happen
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Once in a blue moon
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Very rarely
|
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Pull yourself together
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Calm down and behave normally
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Freak out
|
Become very angry
|
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Skip clases
|
play truant and stay away from school
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Out of the blue
|
appear out of nowhere without warning
|
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A couch potato
|
A very lazy person
|
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Black and blue
|
Badly bruishe
|
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A bookworm
|
Someone who reads a lot
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Friday, December 08, 2017
Thursday, December 07, 2017
Friday, November 17, 2017
Fundraising auctions
I've found some links with news about fundraising auctions. There are different type of auctions: markets, races, desasters, illness... The links are the following:
FUNDRAISING AUCTIONS WITH
ASPERGER PEOPLE:
FOOD FOR PEOPLE:
CANCER:
PROMOTING SOLIDARITY:
RUNNING FOR HAITÍ:
SOLIDARITY MARKET:
HELPING PEOPLE IN EARTHQUAKES:
https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/09/20/mexico/1505925840_115619.html
My favourite auctions are: giving money for poor people, run in a solidarity races, help old people...
Collocations
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TAKE
|
DO
|
MAKE
|
GET
|
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§ Advantage
§ A break
§ A decision
§ A risk
§ Your time
§ Off
§ Part
§ It easy
|
§
Exersise
§
A job
§
Volunteer job
§
Weel
§
Your hair
|
§ Deal
§ A
mistake
|
§ Rid
of
§ Ill
§ Flue
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Units 0,1 - Starter unit and Making a difference - Vocabulary
WORD
|
DEFINITON
|
Lieutenant
|
a rank in the armed forces above a sergeant and below a captain.
|
Bare foot
|
without
covering or clothing;
|
Sitcom
|
a situation comedy.
|
Relative
|
a member
of one's family
|
Childish
|
immature
|
Eager
|
really wanting to do something
|
Bitter
|
angry or unhappy after and interest
|
Supportive
|
giving help or encouragement
|
Bland
|
not highly flavored or spicy
|
Taciturn
|
usually
keeping silent; not saying much:
|
Glommy
|
pessimistic
|
Disrespectful
|
characterized
by, having, or showing disrespect
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Coward
|
a person who shows a shameful lack of courage
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Liar
|
a person
who tells lies
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Biased
|
having or showing bias
|
Faithful
|
loyal in
affection
|
Gossip
|
a person who enjoys with gossip.
|
Idle
|
not
working or active
|
Sluggish
|
not working or functioning with full speed, energy, or ability
|
Foolish
|
a person
who is stupid
|
Bossy
|
domineering or overly authoritative
|
EXPRESSIONS
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To have a laugh
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I can´t help it
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Whenever I have a problem
|
Don´t be a bystander
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