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Diner – Diner – Dinner

16/07/2017
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Diner:  1) a small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car in a train

2) a person who has dinner

Two diners are having dinner.  They are dining out in the hotel dining room.

Note: “flash-in-the-pan” means “fogo de palha”

 



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Contemporary Vocabulary

This vocabulary will mostly be about present-day vocabulary.  That means words that are being used – or overly used – in the news, advertising or in popular music.

Some words are easy to understand in context.  For example, Donald Trump uses the word tremendous frequently.  It can mean very large, like an elephant, but he never talks about elephants and their plights.  He uses it to mean very important, and he uses it a lot.  He likes to use it not only as an adjective, but also as an adverb and sometimes even as a noun.  For example, he claims he has tremendous celebrity status, and that was before he became president.  Trump also uses the adverb tremendously, especially during his presidential campaign. “I’ll be reducing taxes tremendously from 35 percent to 15 percent”.    There is also a noun that is rooted in tremendous, tremendousness, and it can be used to describe the degree that Trump admires Russia and Vladimir Putin, he believes in the tremendousness of both.   For the sake of Planet Earth, we hope that Trump will not prove to be an untremendous (adjective) leader.

TREMENDOUS    TREMENDOUSLY    TREMENDOUSNESS    UNTREMENDOUS

And that is a sample of what we all need to know in order to understand the news and our world leaders and what this part of the blog will contain.

https://bybetsy.com.br//wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Contemporary-Vocabulary-Introduction.mp3
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Cliffhangers

Illustration of WWII song (There’ll be Bluebirds) Over the White Cliffs of Dover

The word cliffhanger comes from cliffs.  Duh.  Cliffs are vertical, or nearly vertical, rocks that have been formed by erosion and weathering.  There are lots of famous cliffs, but the first ones that come to my mind are the White Cliffs of  Dover, probably because there was a popular World War II song about them that was part of my childhood, and also because they are on the historical English coastline.

When one thinks of cliffhangers, England and its gothic novels always come to mind.  Cliffhangers are the kind of story, book or movie that uses suspense either at the end of an episode or a scene.  A good example was the way the final episode of Game of Thrones, season 5, was done.  Jon Snow was dead.  Or was he?   Those of us who sweated it out until season 6 was aired were never really sure.  The writers used old-fashioned melodrama, suspense and uncertainty, and the audience was left as if hanging from a cliff in a state of tension and apprehension.  And that’s a true cliffhanger.

This part of the blog will not be able to offer any nail-biting cliffhangers, but it will have classes in series, and I hope they will be interesting enough that you will want to come back and read what happens next, even if you don’t lose sleep anticipating the next chapter.  Enjoy.

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