To get the most from them, you should try to use them in sentences, or discuss them with friends. Writing something on Twitter or Weibo is a great way to practice!
- Tip: Translate (both ways). Get a bilingual book (your language and English); translate part to or from English; check your translation.
- Proverb: Good fences make good neighbors: We will get along better with people if we don't get too close to them.
- Academic Vocabulary: explicit: Clearly expressed, with nothing unsaid. "I gave you explicit instructions to arrive at 6 p.m.; why are you late?"
- Literature: the Twelve Apostles: Jesus' twelve followers who carried on his teachings after his death. Peter, James, John, and others.
- Art: The Nutcracker: a ballet (dance performance) by Tchaikovsky. Tells a Christmas story, so it is often performed at Christmastime.
- Slang: stuff: things. Used by lazy speakers, or when we can't think of a word. "There's lots of stuff I want to do in my life…"
- Geography: Sinai: A desert peninsula in northeast Egypt, between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt across it.
NOTES:
- Academic Vocabulary is the Academic Word List from Oxford University Press. This is "a list of words that you are likely to meet if you study at an English-speaking university."
- The Proverb, and the Literature, Art, and Geography words are from lists in the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. I wrote the definitions and examples myself.
- The Tip and Slang words are from my own lists, and I wrote the definitions and examples myself.
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