Session 32

 AA * Alcoholic Anonymous * Pledge

pledge = juramant/ promisiune 

serenity= seninatate/ calm / echilibru 

wisdom= intelepciune 

considered = considerat 

deity = zeu

ordeal = calvar / experienta negativa 

to tame = a imblanzi 

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 

The courage to change the things I can,

 And the wisdom to know the difference.

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/wf069-sentences.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/wf068-sentences.htm

to settle (ed) = a se aseza la casa lui 

settler = colonist / locuitor 

distant/ remote  = indepartat 

performance = spectacol 

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/wf067.htm

to fill (ed) = a completa spatiile libere 

to file (ed) = a indosaria/ a depune 

complaint = plangere / reclamatie 

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/wf063-sentences.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/wf049-make-money-on-tv.htm

Session 31

 https://eltbuzz.com/video/?video=the-paradox-of-our-time

Paradoxes : 

- Technology helps you be closer to far away people, but in the same time it keeps us apart.

- We have good experts but we can't solve all problems.

- We have taller buildings but shorter tempers.

- We buy expensive things that we don`t need and like to impress people we don`t like.

-We have comfortable boats but they don't have a compass so they don't know where they are going.

-We clean the air, but we pollute our souls.

-We eat fast-food, but we  have slow digestion .

- We have wider freeways, but narrow viewpoints.

- We have more degrees but less ( common ) sense.

- We have more knowledge but less judgment.

- We drive too fast but we think slowly.

- We watch TV too much but we read too rarely/seldom.

- We hate too often but we love too seldom.

- Society wants you to think out of the box but the educational system makes you fit the box.

- We conquered outer space but not the inner space.

- We add years to life not life to years. :)

- We spend more but we have less.

- We have bigger houses but smaller families.

- We have more medicine but less wellness.

- We have multiplied our possessions, but we have reduced our values.

- We have learned how to make a living, not a life. 

- We have split the atom, but not our prejudice. 

- We plan more, but we accomplish less.

- We write more, but we learn less.

- There are steep profits, but shallow relationships.

- There are times of world peace, but domestic warfare.

- There are more types of food, but less nutrition.

Session 30

 

What can we do with a cardboard box ? 

https://eltbuzz.com/video/?video=a-cardboard-box

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sledge = sanie 

 cello = violoncel

news booth = cabina de transmisie

slaughter house = abator 

Eduard : 

- You can be happy with little. 

- Creativity is a source of fun. 

\Teacher : 

-Children have a vivid imagination . 

-When you want to have fun you have endless possibilities . 

Alexandra 

- Children have brighter imagination than adults . 

Question Tags - intrebari disjunctive ( nu-i asa ? ) 

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/questions/tags-negative

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/questions/tags-affirmative-negative-1

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/questions/tag-questions-write-3

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/single/tags.htm