martes, 28 de abril de 2009

Keep this in minddddddd

Don't study so hard...
Girls and boyz just wanna have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL



viernes, 7 de noviembre de 2008

English daily....




Some common mistakes...



Chinese Style
It's seven twenty o'clock.
American Style
It's seven twenty.
Chinese Style
Your coat is broken.
American Style
Your coat is torn.
Chinese Style
Susan didn't make a fault anyway.
American Style
Susan didn't make a mistake anyway.
Chinese Style
Would you mind posting this letter for me ? Yes, certainly.
American Style
Would you mind mailing this letter for me ? Of course not. OR ( Not at all )
Chinese Style
He becomes better.
American Style
He got better.
Chinese Style
We'll have a hearing test tomorrow.
American Style
We'll have a listening test tomorow.
Chinese Style
I recommend you to take a long vacation.
American Style
I recommend that you take a long vacation.
Chinese Style
The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It's about eleven now, Hurry up!
American Style
The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It's nearly ( almost ) eleven now, Hurry up!
Chinese Style
It was still bright outside.
American Style
It was still light outside.






Complete list of slang



airhead: stupid person. "Believe it or not, Dave can sometimes act like an airhead!" amigo: friend (from Spanish). "I met many amigos at Dave's ESL Cafe." ammunition: toilet paper. "Help! We're completely out of ammunition!" antifreeze: alcohol. "I'm going to need a lot of antifreeze tonight!" armpit: !" baby boomer: a person born from the end of the Second World War until the early 1960s. "Dave Sperling was born in 1961, so he's considered a baby boomer." ball (1): a fun time. "I really had a ball in Dave's ESL class." ball [offensive] (2): a testicle.


"After getting kicked in the balls, his voice seemed much higher." bang (1): a very powerful thing. "Disneyland is really a bang!" bang (2): a powerful effect. "Japanese sake really has a bang!" barf (1): vomit. "My dog barfed all over the carpet." barf (2): vomit. "Don't step on the barf!" barf-out: a displeasing person or affair. "That restaurant was a real barf-out." bazillion: an infinite number of something. "Has Dennis really taught a bazillion students?" B-ball: basketball. "Do you wanna play b-ball with me?" beans: money. "I've worked for this company for ten years, but I still don't have beans." beat: tired. "I'm really beat because I was awake all night." beemer: a BMW. "He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money." biggie: something important. "I was hoping to get my homework completed, but it's no biggie. " biker: a motorcycle rider.


"Dave used to be a biker until he got into a serious motorcycle accident." bitch [offensive] (1): a very unpleasant woman. "My boss can be such a bitch sometimes." bitch [offensive] (2): complain. "Stop bitching and finish your homework!" bitchy [offensive]: moody. "I like my friend Steve, even though he can be really bitchy." bod: body. "Stalone has a great bod!" bonkers; go bonkers: crazy. "If Dave works too hard, he sometimes goes slightly bonkers!" booboo: a mistake. "I made a booboo on the last question of the exam." boob tube: television.





"Benjamin is always in front of the boob tube." booze: alcohol. "The ESL party was fun, even though there wasn't any booze." boss: excellent; great. "Dave's ESL Cafe is totally boss!" bread: money. "Can I borrow some bread?" brew (1): coffee. "Every morning Dave needs a fresh cup of brew." brew (2): beer. "Do you want another brew, dude?" brewski: beer. "I love drinking brewskies!" B.S.: bullshit; lies. "I'm tired of listening to your B.S." bull: bullshit; lie.



"Why are you wearing such cheesy clothes?" chicken: coward. "Don't be such a chicken!" cool: excellent; superb. "Dave's ESL Cafe is totally cool!" cooler, the: jail. "If you drink and drive, you'll end up spending time in the cooler." couch potato: a person who watches too much television. "Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?" crap [offensive] (1): something worthless. "My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap." crap [offensive] (2): excrement.




"Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!" crap [offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies. "I've had enough of your crap." deck: to hit someone. "His wife almost decked him when he returned home with lipstick on his shirt." dicey: unpredictable; risky. "Gambling is a dicey occupation." dinero: money (from Spanish). "I wish I had more dinero!" dirt: extremely bad person. "My ex-boyfriend was dirt." dirty: offensive; pornographic. "Stop looking at the pictures in that dirty magazine!" dorky: strange; peculiar. "If you keep acting so dorky, you'll never get a girlfriend!" dude: a male. "That's really cool, dude!" dynamite: powerful; excellent. "Dave gave a dynamite presentation." dinosaur: something old fashioned or out of date. "I'd love to surf the Net, but unfortunately my computer is a dinosaur." el cheapo: something cheap. "Since I don't make much money, I always purchase the el cheapo brand." evil: great; excellent.




"Your car is really evil!" eyeball: to stare long and hard at someone or something. "Dave eyeballed his daughter's new boyfriend." eyepopper: something or someone visibly astounding. "Wow, that girl is truly an eyepopper!" fab: fabulous. "Dave's ESL Cafe is really fab!" face-off: confrontation. "I think it's time we had a face-off." fart [offensive]: to expel intestinal gas. "It's embarrassing to fart on the first date." fender-bender: small accident. "This morning I had a fender-bender on the Ventura Freeway." flaky: unpredictable. "I waited four hours for my flaky friend to show up." flashback: sudden memory. "In Little Tokyo I had a flashback to my days living in Japan." flick: movie. "Let's go out tonight and watch a flick." fox: attractive, alluring person. "Is it true that Dave is a fox?" freebie: something that does not cost money. "My trip to New York was a freebie." French kiss [possibly offensive]: kissing with the tongue. "Dave's dog is always trying to French kiss him!" geek: someone who works too hard, is more intelligent than usual, and is slightly unattractive. "Bill Gates is kind of a geek." get it: to understand something. "Sorry, but I just don't get it." get naked [possibly offensive]: to completely relax and have a good time. "Let's get naked tonight!"




glitch: flaw. "There must be a glitch in this softwware." go bananas: go slightly mad. "This project is causing me to go bananas!" gomer: a dumb person. "Stop acting like a gomer!" goof (1): a silly and foolish person. "What a goof you are!" goof (2): make a mistake. I really goofed on the test today." goof off (1): waste time. "Stop goofing off and help me clean the house!" goof-off (2): someone who wastes time and isn't serious. "A goof-off never does well in school" goof up: make a mistake. "Oh no! I really goofed up!" goofy: silly. "Kids always make me feel goofy!" grabbers: hands. "Let's get to the guts of Dave Sperling!" hairy: difficult; dangerous. "The steep and windy road was really hairy." hang a left: make a left turn. "Hang a left at the next corner." hang a right: make a right turn.


Jessiquilla...




See You later alligator...

xoxo