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: Volunteer. If there is a place where foreigners go in your city, practice English as a volunteer guide or greeter. Meet new friends!
- Proverb: Make haste slowly: Be careful even when you're in a hurry. If you act too quickly, you may have to do it again, taking even longer.
- Academic Vocabulary: extract: take out of (v); something taken out (n). "The dentist extracted my tooth." "I use mint extract when I make cookies."
- Literature: Jonah and the whale: Bible story of a man who went against God's wishes and was swallowed by a fish. In the end he came back to God.
- Art: album: a collection of songs published together. Once a real album with several discs, it was been replaced by CDs and MP3s.
- Slang: to be set for life: to have everything one needs until one dies. "If I get a good job, I'll be set for life."
- Geography: Belgium: country of Western Europe, speaking Dutch, French, German. With Netherlands and Luxembourg forms Benelux economic union.
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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