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: Plan a trip. Even if you can't go, study other places in English, read train schedules, choose hotels. Learn English as you dream!
- Proverb: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence: What the other person has always looks better than what I have.
- Academic Vocabulary: priority: amount of importance something has. "Studying is a low priority for many students; they would rather have fun."
- Literature: Pandora's box: Zeus gave a box to Pandora (the first woman) and told her not to open it. She did; all the world's troubles flew out.
- Art: Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci's painting of a woman, famous for her strange smile. Located in the Louvre in Paris.
- Slang: to tick someone off: to make someone angry. "When I'm late to work, it ticks my boss off."
- Geography: Rustbelt: areas in northeastern US cities where factories used to be a main part of the economy, but are now closing.
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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