dead-end situation – kilátástalan helyzet
in the driving seat – vezető pozícióban
Step on it! – Taposs bele!
to be given the green light – zöld utat kapni
to be on the road – úton lenni
to drive at sth – célozni valamire
to drive sb mad/crazy – valakit az őrületbe kergetni
to hit the road – útra kelni
to put the brake on – visszafogni valamit
to take a back seat – háttérbe vonulni
to turn the corner – túllépni a nehézségeken

no spring chicken – nem mai csirke
to spring out at someone – előugrani, ráijeszteni valakire
to spring something on someone – váratlanul közölni valamit valakivel
to spring into action – akcióba lendülni
to spring to someone’s defense – valaki védelmére kelni
to have a spring in someone’s step – kitörően örülni valaminek, lendületesen/lelkesen járni
to spring to life – életre kelni, feléledni
to spring to someone’s feet – talpra/felpattani
to spring to mind – eszébe jutni
to spring up – felmerülni, szóba kerülni

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Choose the right expression with ‘spring’ to fill in the gaps.

a) no spring chicken
b) spring out at
c) spring it on
d) spring into action
e) springs to my defense
f) spring in his step
g) spring to life
h) spring to his feet
i) spring to mind
j) spring up

1) My brother always …........ when I need protection.
2) Let’s …....... and get this done quickly.
3) I almost had a heart attack when my niece …....... me from behind the door.
4) She is …....... but she still has at least three lovers.
5) You always …....... when I need somebody to talk to.
6) His parties never …....... until after midnight but they always last until dawn.
7) My grandfather …....... as if he was a young athlete.
8) I don’t want to …....... you but I invited some friends over for dinner tonight.
9) These boring topics …....... whenever your father joins the conversation.
10) He has had a …....... ever since his daughter was born last month.

answers: 1) e, 2) d, 3) b, 4) a, 5) i, 6) g, 7) h, 8) c, 9) j, 10) f

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It’s likely that…

meaning: Azt fejezi ki, hogy valami nagy valószínűséggel be fog következni.
example: It’s likely that the project will be delayed.
magyarul: Valószínű, hogy késni fog a projekt.

There’s a good chance that…

meaning: Barátságos, közvetlen módja annak, hogy valamit elég valószínűnek tartsunk.
example: There’s a good chance that she’ll pass the exam.
magyarul: Jó esély van rá, hogy átmegy a vizsgán.

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20 alkalmas TEMATIKUS SZÓKINCSFEJLESZTŐ videókurzus Szalai Nórival

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Általános üzleti/munkahelyi angol videókurzus

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I wouldn’t be surprised if…

meaning: Óvatos, puha jóslat – nem vagyunk biztosak benne, de reálisnak tartjuk.
example: I wouldn’t be surprised if they announced a price increase.
magyarul: Nem lepődnék meg, ha bejelentenének egy áremelést.

It seems possible that…

meaning: Semleges, visszafogott spekuláció – nem túl erős, nem túl gyenge.
example: It seems possible that the weather will improve by the weekend.
magyarul: Lehetségesnek tűnik, hogy javul az idő hétvégére.

My guess is that…

meaning: Személyes tipp vagy találgatás kifejezése.
example: My guess is that he’ll choose the cheaper option.
magyarul: Szerintem a olcsóbb lehetőséget fogja választani.

1. Absolutely wonderful. – Egyszerűen csodálatosan.
2. Can’t complain. – Nem panaszkodhatok.
3. I’ve never been better. – Soha nem voltam jobban.
4. Not bad. – Nem vészesen.
5. So far, so good. – Egyelőre jól./Eddig jól vagyok.

Now, it’s your turn. Fill the gaps in this short situation.

How are you, Fred?

Not 1.___. Actually, I can’t 2.___ .

3.___ far, ___ good?

Yeah, I’ve never 4.___ better. In other words, absolutely 5. ___ !

Megoldások/keys:

1.bad; 2.complain; 3.So – so; 4.been; 5. wonderful

Jeff:  That was quite enjoyable!

Ella:  Yeah! Great decision. I like this place a lot.

Waitress:  Here’s your bill.

Ella:  I’m so full!

Jeff:  That was great. It was worth every penny.

Ella:  I’m glad we got dessert.

Jeff:  Everything else is going good?

Ella:  Yeah! Just…just getting tired of the way things get changed up at work a little bit, but…what are you going to do.

Jeff:  Yeah. So, what’s the damage? That’s not bad. I was thinking we’d go Dutch on this?

Ella:  What… what’s that?

Jeff:  Split it down the middle?

Ella:  Perhaps…

Jeff:  You’re fine with that?

Ella:  Yeah… super chill.

Jeff:  What’s chill for you is chill for me.

Ella:  Yeah… totally.

Waitress:  Just split it down the middle?

Jeff:  Oh yeah. We’re going Dutch tonight.

Waitress:  Great!

Ella:  Yay, Dutch…

Jeff:  Perfect!

Ella:  Hello? Hey, oh my gosh. So, I’m still on my date here, and we had to go Dutch. You know, like, split down the middle? Yeah! What the heck? He’s a lawyer! Is he cheap, or something? I don’t understand. Like, with Mason, I never had to pay for anything. He, like, paid for my student loans, like, there was no question. Like, what’s the deal here? What’s going on? Oh God, he’s coming back. Gotta go.

Jeff:  Alright! What’s up? What do you say?

Ella:  Oh, all good! Yeah!

Jeff:  On to the rest of the night!

Ella:  Yeah!

Jeff:  Let’s do it!

Traditionally, when American couples go out on a date, the man pays for everything. But that’s not always how it goes. Sometimes the woman will treat, and sometimes, they’ll split the cost, or go Dutch. When it comes time to pay for a meal or some drinks, it can be a little confusing if one person plans to go Dutch and the other doesn’t. It’s common for friends to go Dutch, and some couples like to do it, too. But if they haven’t been out before, there’s no way of knowing. See what happens when Jeff and Ella get the check after dinner.

Hagyományosan, amikor Amerikában az emberek randiznak, mindent a férfi fizet. De nem mindig történik ez így. Időnként a nő hívja meg a férfit, és van úgy, hogy elosztják a költségeket vagy felezik a számlát. Amikor fizetésre kerül a sor, zavaró lehet, ha egyikük úgy gondolja, hogy felesben fizetnek majd, a másik pedig nem. Barátok között megszokott, hogy felezik a számlát, és vannak párok, akik szintén szeretik így csinálni. De ha ez az első randijuk, akkor előre nem lehet ezt tudni. Nézd meg, hogy mi történik, amikor Jeff és Ella megkapják a vacsora számláját!

source: Englishbaby

The word dinner does not necessarily imply the time of day. Depending on where you are, it may mean the midday meal or the evening meal, but it always refers to the main meal of the day. The word dinner comes from the Vulgar Latin word disjējūnāre meaning “to break one’s fast.”

Supper, on the other hand, is associated with the evening. It comes from the Old French word souper meaning “evening meal.” It has traditionally been used in the context of the last meal taken by Jesus before his crucifixion, known as the Last Supper.

So if someone asks you over for dinner, how do you know what time they expect you? That may depend on where you are. In 1828, Noah Webster wrote that “The dinner of fashionable people would be the supper of rustics,” reflecting the prominence of dinner as the term for a midday meal in some rural parts of the country. Regardless of time of day, if you are going over for dinner, you can expect a feast.

More recent data from Google suggest that use of the word supper has been declining since the beginning of the 1900s, while the use of lunch has been increasing. Dinner holds the top spot on the lexical food chain as the most widely used term of the three. Which term do you use most often?

source: dictionary.com

Dinner or supper? Here are a few nice expressions for you with both.

1. Dinner is served. – It is time to eat dinner. Please come to the table. – Gyertek enni! A vacsora tálalva.

2. to take someone out to dinner – to take someone as one’s guest to a meal at a restaurant – elvinni valakit vacsorázni

3. be done like a dog’s dinner – to be completely defeated – csúnyán legyőzték, megverték

4. a dog’s breakfast/dinner – something that has been done very badly – kontármunka

5. done up/dressed up like a dog’s dinner – wearing clothes which make you look silly when you have tried to dress for a formal occasion – alkalomhoz nem illően öltözni egy eseményre

6. have done/seen/had more something than somebody has had hot dinners – to have done, seen, had something many times, so that you have had more experience of it than the person you are talking to – nagyon tapasztaltnak lenni egy bizonyos területen valakihez képest

7. dinner basket or breadbasket – the belly; the stomach – has

8. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. – It is good to start the day feeling hopeful, but if none of the things you hope for come to pass by the end of the day, you will feel disappointed. (Can be used to warn someone against hoping for something that is unlikely to happen.) – Nyugtával dicsérd a napot! Ne igyál előre a medve bőrére!

9. shoot one’s supper or breakfast – to empty one’s stomach; to vomit – hányni

10. sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper – If you wake up feeling very happy, your mood will change before the end of the day  – Nyugtával dicsérd a napot, attól, hogy jól indul, még nem biztos, hogy jól is fejeződik be

11. sing for your supper – to do something for someone else in order to receive something in return – megdolgozni valamiért cserében

1. Rome was not built In one/a day – all great works take time to finish –  Róma sem egy nap alatt épült fel. (jó munkához idő kell)

Why Rome? What better city than Rome? Built by hand, stone by stone, conquest by conquest, it was a great empire as well as a great city. Rome’s history spans more than two and a half thousand years, since its legendary founding in 753 BC.

 2. Fiddle while Rome burns. – not paying attention while something very serious is happening – csapások, komoly dolgok idején valami komolytalannal foglalkozni

A possible explanation of this phrase is the story that Nero played the fiddle (violin) while Rome burned, during the great fire in AD 64.

3. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.   – it is best to do as the people do who are from that place; when visiting a foreign place it is best to do things the way those people do – ha valahol vagyunk, célszerű alkalmazkodni a helyi körülményekhez

The origin of the proverb is from the letters of St Augustine: ’When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but here [Milan] I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.’

4. All roads lead to Rome.-  there are many different ways of reaching the same goal or conclusion – Minden út Rómába vezet. (nem csak egyetlen módja van a célhoz érésnek vagy egy probléma megoldásának)

This proverb is based on the ancient Roman road system where roads radiated from the capital of Rome. The road system resembled spokes of a wheel.

5. Do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope. – do not attempt to criticize or oppose a powerful person in his or her own territory, such as the Pope’s in Rome, who is synonymous with the Catholic Church – ne kritizálj hatalmon lévő személyt a saját területén

It is a Scottish idiom.

6. ‘to go to Rome with a mortar on one’s head’, or ‘hop to Rome’ – to do a hopelessly difficult and/or pointless task – teljesen értelmetlen dolgot cselekedni, „elmenni Kukutyinba zabot hegyezni”

7. Sent to Coventry – to refuse to associate with or speak to someone – kiközösíteni valakit, nem szólni hozzá

The idiom stems from the extreme unpopularity of soldiers stationed in Coventry, who were cut off socially by the citizens.

8. Carry coals to Newcastle – supplying something to a place where it is already plentiful, or thus, figuratively, to do something wholly superfluous – a tengerbe vizet hordani, szükségtelen dolgot cselekedni

Newcastle (a city in the north of England) has a history of being particularly productive in exporting coal.

9. Cross the Rubicon – by crossing the Rubicon, people cross a point of no return – átkelni a Rubiconon, fontos, megmásíthatatlan, végleges döntést hozni

The Rubicon once marked the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul. The future Roman Emperor Julius Caesar led his army across it, breaking a law which forbade a general to lead an army out of his province.

10. Road to Damascus – used in reference to an important moment of insight, typically one that leads to a dramatic transformation of attitude or belief – pálfordulás, hirtelen, egy csapásra bekövetkező fordulat

The Book of Acts, in the New Testament, gives the account of Paul (then named Saul) having a dramatic conversion to Christianity while on the road leading to Damascus, Syria.

11. From here to Timbuktu – a reference to a remote or extremely distant place – a világ másik végére is

Timbuktu (also spelled Timbuctoo), though doesn’t sound one, was actually a real place – specifically a town in northern Mali.

Countries and capitals. Can you match them?

Key

1. g.

2. d.

3. a.

4. j.

5. h.

6. b.

7. e.

8. c.

9. f.

10. i.

to burp – böfögni
to allow air from the stomach to come out through the mouth in a noisy way

to chomp – csámcsogni
to chew food noisily

to slurp – szürcsölni
to drink a liquid noisily as a result of sucking air into the mouth at the same time as the liquid

to sniffle – szipogni
to breathe in quickly and repeatedly through the nose, usually because you are crying or because you have a cold

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Fill the gap with the right verb from the list.

slurp – sniffle – burp – bite – chomp

1. Don’t ____! – Ne csámcsogj!
2. Don’t ____! – Ne szipogj!
3. Don’t _____ your nails! – Ne rágd a körmeidet!
4. Don’t _____! – Ne büfögj!
5. Don’t _____! – Ne szürcsölj!

megoldások/keys:

1.chomp; 2. sniffle; 3.bite; 4.burp; 5. slurp

Now, it’s your turn to use them in these sentences!

1. Is tap water ____ here?
2. Tom likes to decorate his salads with ____ flowers.
3. Our new lecturer spoke so quietly that she was scarcely ____ at the back of the hall.
4. The comet will be ____ to the naked eye.
5. ____ technology such as “smart clothes” can be used to monitor heart rate.

Megoldások/keys:

1. drinkable; 2. edible; 3. audible; 4. visible; 5. Wearable

History is the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. We can learn what happened in the past reading records of the past (like books, newspapers, letters) or by looking at old object and artefacts (like pottery, tools, human and animal remains).

A historian is somebody who studies history, while an archaeologist is a person who studies the past by looking for the remains and artefacts left by people who lived long time ago.

If you want to know more about the past, you can go to libraries, archives and museums that collect and keep things from the past.

Periods in history

Ancient Egypt:The Egyptian Empire, was a society that began about 3150 BC, and lasted until 20 BC when it was invaded by the Roman Empire.

Ancient Greece:Ancient Greece is called “the birthplace of Western civilisation”. About 2500 years ago, the Greeks created a way of life that other people admired and copied. Athenian democracy is the first known democracy in the world. Also, the Ancient Greeks started the Olympic Games and left new ideas in science, art and philosophy.

The Roman Empire:The Roman Empire was the largest empire of the ancient world. It dates from 27 BC, when Octavian became the Emperor, Augustus. The empire was the third stage of Ancient Rome. Rome was first ruled by Roman kings, then by the Roman Republic.

The Middle Ages:The Middle Ages are a time period in European history, which started around the year 476 CE with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and continued until around the time Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492.

The Renaissance:The Renaissance is a period in the European history, beginning in about 1400. The Renaissance was seen as a rebirth of studying ancient times and gave humanity many famous artists, writers and philosophers.

The French Revolution:The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799, and ended when Napoleon Bonaparte became military dictator for fifteen years.

The early nineteenth century:The Realism and Romanticism of the early 19th century gave way to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the latter half of the century, with Paris being the dominant art capital of the world.