Nagyi első hullámvasutazása … és egy kis vidámparkos szókincs:)

Szalai Nóri — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:24:54 +0000

Grandma’s First Roller Coaster Ride At 78 Years Old Is Pure Magic

The first time on a roller coaster can be a thrill at any age – but it must be especially awesome if you’ve waited nearly eight decades for the experience.

This is Ria Van den Brand, a grandmother from the Netherlands who took her first coaster ride at the ripe young age of 78.

She had also never flown in an airplane before. As part of the "Firsts" marketing campaign from telecom giant Vodafone, she and 71-year-old An Bernaards both took to the air for the first time.

The coaster ride was to help prepare Van den Brand for her maiden flight. Bernaards, who was more nervous about flying, was put into a virtual reality flight simulator.

source: The Huffington Post

roller coaster – hullámvasút
thrill – izgalom
especially – különösen
awesome – döbbenetes, hihetetlen, fantasztikus
decade – évtized
experience – élmény
ripe – érett
telecom giant – telekommunikációs óriáscég
to prepare – felkészülni
maiden flight – első repülés
nervous – ideges
flight simulator – repülés szimulátor

Have you ever been to an amusement park? Where? Which ride did you enjoy the most?

Other words for amusement parks:

AMUSEMENT PARK – vidámpark
a large park with many special machines that you can ride on, such as roller coasters and merry-go-rounds

THEME PARK – olyan vidámpark, ami egy téma köré épült, pl. Disneyland
an amusement park with theme: an amusement park in which all of the entertainment and facilities are designed around a specific subject or idea, e.g. Disney World

FUNFAIR – búcsú, zsibvásár, majális
a noisy outdoor event where you can ride on machines, play games to win prizes etc

(AMUSEMENT) ARCADE – játékterem
(GB) a place where you play games on machines by putting coins into them/(US) video arcade

ATTRACTIONS AND RIDES AT AMUSEMENT PARKS

dodgem car/bumper car – dodzsem autó

chairoplane – láncos körhinta

merry-go-round – körhinta (inkább gyerekeknek)

waltzer – körhinta, ahol a kocsik saját maguk körül is forognak

carousel – körhinta

Ferris wheel/big wheel – óriáskerék

ghost train – szellemvasút

log flume – vízi hullámvasút

rollercosater – hullámvasút

shooting gallery – céllövölde

swing boat – hajóhinta

haunted castle/haunted mansion – elvarázsolt/szellem kastély

History of Roller Coasters

Szalai Nóri — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:29:17 +0000

“Do you know that the roller coaster as we know it now, is truly an evolutionary thing. It was originally an ice slide and even though we don’t think of it as doing the luge, at one time in Eastern Europe, that’s what they did. Is they had the slides that went up and down the hills and they were packed with ice and that’s how they had all the daring and exciting ride that you get with the roller coaster. It’s the exhilaration and the feel of the speed that people like and then once it went to France and some other places that were in Southern Europe and didn’t have so much ice and snow, someone had to come up with a way of making a rail for this inclined plane with a car and then it became the roller coaster and now with the history of Coney Island and the United States and many other places, the thing that amusement parks is know for is it’s roller coaster. Often times roller coasters were made of the wood base. Many times there made with steel. Now they get into the loop the loop kind of things and they go for going backwards as well as forwards. There is a very, very big following for roller coasters. Often times, people are a parts of clubs that keep track of which roller coasters they have ridden on and which ones are the most famous and how many roller coasters a certain amusement park has is often a big draw for the tourists.”

amusement park – Ingyenes Angol online nyelvtanulás minden nap

Nagyi első hullámvasutazása … és egy kis vidámparkos szókincs:)

History of Roller Coasters