When friends hang out, it means they are relaxing and having fun together. The mall (shopping center) is the perfect place to hang out and chat with your friends.

Catch some rays

Prefer the outdoors? Get outside and catch a few rays (enjoy the sunshine) at the beach. The beach or the park is the ideal place to enjoy the sun with people you know.

Enjoy a cup of joe/a cuppa

Cafes are the perfect place to talk with your friends over a cup of joe. No – you don’t need a friend called Joe! A cup of joe is just a cup of coffee. Sometimes people call a cup of coffee a cup of Java and in the UK, people often call a cup of tea or coffee a cuppa.

Go window-shopping

Window-shopping means looking through shop windows or browsing in stores without buying anything. A great way to have fun without spending money.

Shoot some hoops/go for a kickaround

The next time somebody asks you to go to the park and shoot some hoops, don’t worry, they just want to have a game of basketball with you! In the UK, where soccer is more popular than basketball, you could go for a kickaround (play soccer) with your friends.

Chow down at a fast-food joint/veggie/vegan joint

Chow down simply means to eat. A fast-food joint is a great place to have a pizza or a burger, and relax. We can use the word ‘joint’ to talk about other places to eat, too. If you don’t eat meat, you can go to a veggie (vegetarian) joint and if you don’t eat any animal products, you can go to a vegan joint.

Paint the town red!

It’s the weekend. Time to party! Go out with your friends and paint the town red! Red symbolizes fun and excitement. Painting the town red means to have a fun-filled night out. You might even pull an all-nighter! (it means you stay out and up for the whole night)

Catch a flick/play/show

If your friends ask you to the cinema to catch a flick, they are asking you to see a movie with them. You could also catch a play at the theater or catch a show downtown.

Keep it low-key

Planning a relaxing, quiet night at home with a small group of friends? Tell them you are having a low-key night. This is the opposite of going out and painting the town red.

Grab some munchies and hit the road

Get away on a car-trip with your friends. Don’t forget to grab some popcorn, candy, or other munchies (food, especially snacks). Once you have your snacks, it’s time to get out there and hit the road (start your journey)!

source: 10 idioms and expressions to talk about your free time in English, English Live

A következő interaktív tesztben próbáljátok megtippelni, vajon melyik híres sztár hobbijáról van szó.
source: entertainment, magazine, za.investing.com

Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, and more break down their immortal characters.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps getting bigger.

Avengers: Endgame may have closed out one Marvel chapter, but a new one is about to begin. Directed by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, the long-awaited Eternals will hit theaters Nov. 5, bringing some of Marvel comics’ strangest and most memorable characters to the big screen.

The Eternals are a fascinating part of comics lore, first dreamed up by Jack Kirby in the 1970s, when he returned to Marvel after briefly working for rival DC. (In fact, the Eternals share some similarities with DC’s New Gods, which Kirby created while working there.) The Eternals are essentially idealized, humanoid aliens from the planet Olympia, genetically engineered by the godlike Celestials. These particular Eternals were sent to Earth by the Celestials to fight against the evil Deviants and defend humanity, and they’ve been silently keeping watch for the last 7,000 years.

Whether you’re new to the MCU or you’ve read every Eternals comic Jack Kirby or Neil Gaiman ever wrote, here’s your in-depth breakdown of the film’s major players.

Sersi (Gemma Chan)

Much of Eternals’ story centers on Sersi, who has the ability to manipulate non-sentient matter. “She can change things, and she’s sort of helped humanity along the way, in little ways,” Chan explains. Unlike some of the Eternals, Sersi has a real love and respect for humanity, and in the present day, she’s working as a museum curator and dating a human (Dane Whitman, played by Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington). She also has a long romantic history with Richard Madden’s Ikaris.

“She’s interesting because she is this immortal being, but she’s very grounded as well,” Chan says. “She’s a little bit of a free spirit and just loves being amongst humans.”

Interestingly, this isn’t Chan’s first appearance in a Marvel movie: She previously starred in 2019’s Captain Marvel as Starforce sharpshooter Minn-Erva. “The obvious difference is that I didn’t have to do four hours every morning, getting the blue makeup on,” she says with a laugh. “I have to say that was somewhat of a relief. It was nice not finding blue paint in my crevices, weeks later.”

Ikaris (Richard Madden)

Madden’s Ikaris is one of the most powerful Eternals, with the ability to fly and shoot beams of light from his eyes. He has a special connection with Sersi, but they don’t necessarily see eye to eye on their approach toward humanity. Still, they have a complicated, on-again off-again relationship that’s stretched throughout the centuries. “There’s a deep level of romance in two people that have been around for thousands of years and yet still choose each other,” Madden says.

For the Game of Thrones alum, one of the biggest challenges of playing an immortal superhuman was figuring out how he’s evolved over the last 7,000 years. “I had to work out, how do you play someone who’s seen everything and done everything?” Madden explains. “How do you play them to not be bored of everything because you’re seen it and done it?”

Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani)

Most of the other Eternals have tried to stay under the radar through the centuries, but Nanjiani’s Kingo has done the opposite, making a living as a Bollywood star. (As an Eternal, he also has the power to manipulate energy with his hands.) Nanjiani trained extensively to get in superhero shape, and to capture Kingo’s joyful, effortless fight style, he went back and watched old Errol Flynn movies and some of the original Zorro films — “just a lot of old school Hollywood stars whose characters really enjoyed fighting,” he explains.  

But perhaps his biggest challenge was preparing for a scene where Kingo performs an elaborate Bollywood dance number.

“I’m not a dancer,” Nanjiani admits. “I have zero rhythm. I had to take months and months of classes to do this. So, it was very challenging, but I know that if we could pull this off and capture the joy and excitement of a Bollywood dance number in a Marvel movie, that would be special — because I grew up watching Bollywood movies. I knew every Bollywood movie until like the late ’90s. So, to be able to do an homage to the genre of movies that I loved and grew up watching was really special.”

Sprite (Lia McHugh)

McHugh’s Sprite may look like a preteen, but like the other Eternals, she’s actually thousands of years old. “I sort of related to her in the way that I’ve lived my whole life because I look younger than I am,” the 15-year-old McHugh says. “I really related to her in that way and in wanting to grow up a little bit, but being stuck in a way.”

McHugh, known for her roles in Totem and The Lodge, adds that she treated her time on the Eternals set as a masterclass in acting, trying to absorb as much as she could from her elder costars. She also took the opportunity to try as many stunts as she could. “Towards the beginning of filming, I was in a harness doing this crazy choreograph stunt scene, and I just remember thinking, ‘Wow, my brothers are going to think I’m so cool,'” she says with a laugh. “It was just a crazy moment because I’ve never done any stunt work like that before, and it just all hit me at once, how insane all of this is.”

Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry)

The Atlanta actor stars as Phastos, a brilliant inventor with a mind for creating weapons and technology.

“I never in a million years thought I’d be a part of the MCU,” Henry says. “I have always been a huge fan. I’ve been obsessed with the concept of superheroes and the concept of mankind needing saving. And I think that when you get these group of people together, who just have these intimate senses of super powers and saving humanity, it’s something that we all kind of need. It literally brings everyone together regardless of where you’re from. I’m still freaking out that I’m a part of it.”

Makkari (Lauren Ridloff)

To play the super-fast Eternal Makkari, Ridloff (known for The Walking Dead) threw herself into training — just not the kind of training she was expecting. “The ironic part about this is when I started training for the role, I was told to stop running,” she says, laughing. “I was like, excuse me, stop running? Really what they wanted to do was focus on building the symmetry of somebody who looks like a sprinter, and they tend to be a bit more muscular. So, I focused mostly on building muscle, especially my legs.”

Makkari is also the first deaf hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Ridloff says she’s particularly excited for audiences to see a deaf actress in a major heroic role.

“It makes so much sense to have this diversity and representation within the MCU because what the MCU is offering the world is amazing,” Ridloff says. “They’re offering a way for us to hope, to be able to get up and keep going and fight for what’s important. More and more people are starting to see themselves in that universe, and that’s powerful.”

Druig (Barry Keoghan)

The Irish Keoghan, known for his roles in Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, plays Druig, an Eternal with the ability to manipulate other people’s thoughts.

“I was the last one to get into costume,” he recalls of his first day on set. “When I arrived and put it on for the first time, it was kind of nice to walk out and see the rest of the cast’s reaction. They were like, ‘Whoa!’. It’s a weird feeling to see yourself like that. As soon as you put the boots on your posture transforms. You definitely notice how your whole demeanor and everything just changes.”

Druig is aloof and a bit of a loner, but in real life, Keoghan quickly hit it off with his costars.

“Barry can get very nervous at the beginning, right before [shooting],” Salma Hayek recalls. “I would run lines with him, and he’s like, ‘Oh no, I’m not going to be able to do this!’ I thought to myself, ‘This is not going to be good; we’re on our way to set!’ And then all of a sudden, boom: It was like possession, and he’d get it in one take, pure brilliance. There’s something savage about him. He’s incredible.”

Gilgamesh (Don Lee)

Korean actor Lee describes Gilgamesh as “extremely powerful and the strongest warrior of Eternals.” “He’s protective over his family and humans, and he has a solid, dependable character that serves his team in battles,” Lee explains. “At the same time, he’s a funny guy and has a sense of humor.”

He has a deep connection with Angelina Jolie’s Thena, and he prefers to use his fists in battle, often taking out enemies with a single punch. “That fit me perfectly because I’m a longtime boxer myself, for over 30 years since I was a kid,” Lee adds. “Gilgamesh’s action is based on boxing, so I could add real boxing movements.”

Ajak (Salma Hayek)

Hayek wasn’t sure what to expect when Marvel reached out and said they wanted to meet with her about a potential project, but when she found out that Zhao was involved, she immediately said yes. “I was shocked,” she remembers. “Imagine in your 50s you get a call from this director that you’re crazy about, who says, ‘You’re going to be a superhero.'”

Hayek immediately fell in love with the character of Ajak, the Eternals’ stoic and powerful leader, who also has the ability to heal. The character was originally written as a man in the comics, and in early conversations with Zhao, it was Hayek who suggested leaning into her femininity and approaching her as the mother figure of the group. “She’s full of contradictions,” the actress says. “She’s the bridge between the Eternals and the Celestials, and it’s never easy to hold two sides together.”

Thena (Angelina Jolie)

Jolie is certainly no stranger to blockbuster projects, but even she was surprised by the scale of Eternals. “It’s certainly the biggest thing I’ve ever done,” she says. “As somebody who’s directed, to watch the production try to manage it, it was a huge thing to take on.”

The acrobatic Thena is one of the group’s elite warriors, and she can manifest weapons out of thin air. To prepare, Jolie undertook ballet training to capture her effortless grace, as well as teaching herself how to use various weapons — most of which were added in digitally in post-production. “It is one of the weirdest things to train for because you’re throwing things, grabbing things, breaking things in half,” she explains. “You feel a little nuts. You’re just throwing your hand out as if you’re thinking, ‘Is that a sword? Is that a spear? Is it a lasso? What am I doing?’ Then you get into it and it gets really fun, but it’s a puzzle.”

source (article; video and picture): Entertainment Weekly; ETERNALS Sneak Peak & POWERS REVEALED By Marvel! New Trailer Coming!, The Cosmic Wonder, Youtube

source (video and picture): Angelina Jolie’s Kids Wear Her VINTAGE Looks to Eternals Premiere (Exclusive), Entertainment Tonight, Youtube

Angelina Jolie has joined Instagram, and broke a long-standing record in the process.

The actress and philanthropist can now be found @angelinajolie, and being one of the most famous women on the planet reaps its benefits too; the account became the quickest to reach the threshold of 1 million followers in the platform.

It took Angelina just three hours to gain 2.1 million followers, which bests the previous record set by Jennifer Aniston, who quite literally broke Instagram when she accumulated 1 million followers in 5 hours in 2019.

Using her first post on the platform to highlight her work as a Special Envoy to the UN, Angelina shared a letter from an anonymous Afghan Girl sharing her plight as the Taliban once again try to take control of the country.

Pledging to support Afghan refugees fleeing the crisis, Angelina wrote: “Like others who are committed, I will not turn away. I will continue to look for ways to help. And I hope you’ll join me.”

The current followers tally for the account stands at 5.1 million, after being active for less than 24 hours.

source: i-D.vice.com

A videó megnézése után próbáld eldönteni, hogy a következő állítások igazak (T), hamisak (F), vagy nem volt róluk szó (NM).

1. Angelina Jolie’s using the Instagram for shining in the spotlight.
2. Angie felt being forced to join as it is the right thing to do in a moment when women and young people in Afghanistan are losing the capability to communicate on social media and express themselves freely.
3. In her first official post to Instagram, the 46-year-old actress shears a letter from a teenage girl in Afghanistan.
4. Angie promises to look at the problem and seek ways to help.
5. As a special representative to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, Angie has lent her voice to numerous humanitarian efforts over the past 20 years.
6. Despite of being a strong woman, Angie uses her platform to inspire change.
7. Ahead of the release of her film Those Who Wish Me Dead, she concealed her period in her own personal life where she felt broken.
8. For Angie it is difficult to speak too much about her own personal life where she felt broken.

Ha nehéznek bizonyul a feladat, segítségül megadjuk a videó szövegátiratát.

Angelina Jolie who has officially joined Instagram and true to form, she’s using the platform for good, shining a spotlight on what’s happening in Afghanistan.

A source close to the Oscar winner tells ET (quote): “Angie felt compelled to join in a moment when women and young people in Afghanistan are losing the ability to communicate on social media and express themselves freely.  From her point of view, if she’s able to be a part of the effort to amplify their voices, then she felt it was reason enough to join and use her platform.”

“It feels powerful, it’s hard not to.” (Angelina Jolie)

Her first official post to Instagram, the 46-year-old actress shares a letter from a teenage girl in Afghanistan, alongside a caption that reads in part (quote):

“It is sickening to watch Afghans be displaced yet again out of the fear and uncertainty that has gripped their country. To spend so much time and money to have bloodshed and lives lost only to come to this, is a failure almost impossible to understand.”

She concluded her lengthy post by vowing “I will not turn away. I will continue to look for ways to help. And I hope you’ll join me.” As a special representative to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, Angie has lent her voice to several humanitarian efforts over the years, including domestic violence awareness and empowering underserved women, as well as saving the bees.

“I’m always learning trying to be better and try to be honest.”

There is no denying that Angie is a strong woman who uses her platform to inspire change. And when ET spoke with the Oscar winner back in May, ahead of the release of her film Those Who Wish Me Dead, she opened up about going through a period in her own personal life where she felt broken and how she channeled that energy into her role to make her better.

“We all have times in our lives where we feel broken. And I was in a period like that. My share of things that have made me feel, um, you know, hard to speak too much about it but just overwhelmed or broken. To have an opportunity, I feel very lucky, I wish all women could have this at times in their lives, all people. When you feel like you just want to kind of hide under the covers or you’re not sure what you’ve got left in you, I would encourage anybody to go somewhere, see what you got in you, put yourself against the elements or try something you’ve never tried and kind of try to rediscover that that strength within.”

source (video and picture): Angelina Jolie Joins Instagram With POWERFUL First Post, Entertainment Tonight, Youtube

keys/megoldások:
1. F, she’s using it for good cause, shining a spotlight on what’s happening in Afghanistan.;
2. T;
3. F, she shares a letter, not shears it.;
4. T;
5. NM, Angie has lent her voice to several humanitarian efforts over the years.
The exact number of years wasn’t mentioned.;
6. F, there is no contradiction: There is no denying that Angie is a strong woman
who uses her platform to inspire change.;
7. F, she opened up about her own personal life where she felt broken.;
8. T

1. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.
2. Honey bees live in hives (or colonies). The members of the hive are divided into three types:

     Queen: One queen runs the whole hive. Her job is to lay the eggs that will spawn the hive’s next generation of bees. The queen also produces chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other bees.

     Workers: these are all female and their roles are to forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean and circulate air by beating their wings. Workers are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside the hive.

     Drones: These are the male bees, and their purpose is to mate with the new queen. Several hundred live in each hive during the spring and summer. But come winter, when the hive goes into survival mode, the drones are kicked out!

3. What are these buzzing bugs most famous for? Delicious honey! But did you know they produce honey as food stores for the hive during winter? Luckily for us, these efficient little workers produce 2-3 time more honey than they need, so we get to enjoy the tasty treat, too!
4. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “royal jelly“. This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen.
5. Honey bees are fab flyers. They fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second!
6. Each bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.
7. The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. During this time, she’ll produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
8. The queen can live up to five years. She is busiest in the summer months, when she can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day!
9. Honey bees are also brilliant boogiers! To share information about the best food sources, they perform their ‘waggle dance’. When the worker returns to the hive, it moves in a figure-of-eight and waggles its body to indicate the direction of the food source. Cool, huh?

10. Sadly, over the past 15 years, colonies of bees have been disappearing, and the reason remains unknown. Referred to as ‘colony collapse disorder’, billions of honey bees across the world are leaving their hives, never to return. In some regions, up to 90% of bees have disappeared!

We can all do our bit to support these brilliant bugs, gang! Why not plant flowers rich in nectar, such as lavender and bluebells, which will help bees find the food they need? Also, be sure to choose local honey, too, which will support our honey bees and their beekeepers!

source (article; video and picture): National Geographic Kids, Angelina Jolie Covered In Bees: It ‘Felt Lovely’, Access; Youtube

A cikk elolvasása után próbáld megtalálni, melyik ponthoz (1-10), melyik kérdés (A-L) tartozik. Vigyázz, mert van két kérdés, amikre nincs szükség.

A.What is the special ability of honey bees?

B.Why are honey bees vital in nature?

C.What is the minor purpose of a queen bee?

D.What are these buzzing bugs most famous for?

E.What do honey bees use their special sense of smell for?

F.Why is ‘bee dance’ informative?

G.What’s life inside a beehive?

H.What is the lifespan of a queen?

I.What has happened to bees recently?

J.How is would-be-queen bee nurtured?

K.What is the lifespan of a bee worker?

L.Why are honey bees said to be fabulous?

keys/megoldások: 1. B; 2. G.; 3. D.; 4. J.; 5. L.; 6. E.; 7. K.; 8. H.; 9. F; 10. I.; extrák: C;  A.

A videó megnézése után egészítsd ki a mondatokat a videóban elhangzott információk alapján. Próbáld pontosan azt a szót használni, amit hallasz az adott mondatnál.

1.The Hollywood superstar was covered in … for an important …

2. She teamed up with National Geographic to …awareness about
   bee conservation and to champion …beekeepers.
3. The campaign is in honor of world …Day on May ….
4. This is problem that we can we can …we can certainly do our …and
   we can do much better.
5. Despite how calm she looked while the …swarmed all over her,
   at least one got a little too …for comfort.
6. ’It stayed there the entire time we were doing the …and then
   when I lifted the skirt, he went …luckily.’
7. Angelina …felt as though she was in any ….
8. ’It felt lovely to be that …to these beautiful ….’
9. Angelina has long been …for her work empowering …across the globe.
10. Playing a female …in her new movie symbolizes how
    she’s faced and …personal challenges throughout her life.

keys/megoldások:
1. bees, cause; 2. raise, female;
3. Bee, 20^th; 4. manage, part;
5. insects, close; 6. shoot, away;
7. never, danger; 8.  connected; creatures;
9.  known, women; 10. firefighter, overcome

She wrote: "My doctors estimated that I had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65% risk of getting it, on average. Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex."

The star’s surgery was successful and doctors say Angelina’s chances of developing breast cancer have now lowered to less than 5%.

“I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.”

The Hollywood star has not let the life-changing operation interfere with public engagements – she visited the Republic of Congo on March 26 on humanitarian duties and attended the G8 summit in London on April 11 with William Hague, after her initial operations but before the all the procedures had finished.

Angelina praised the support her fiancé Brad Pitt and their children, Maddox, 11, Pax, nine, Zahara, eight, Shiloh, six, and four-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, gave her during treatment.

"It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive. He was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has."

Angelina assured that having the double mastectomy hasn’t changed the way she feels about herself and her womanliness, and added that results of reconstructive surgery ‘can be beautiful’.

"On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman," she said. "I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."

In addition, the brave star hopes that she can encourage other women to be informed and consider their options.

source: dailymail.co.uk

to reveal – felfedni, feltárni
to be forced – rákénnyszerülni
agonizing – gyötrelmes, fájó
preventative – megelőző
mastectomy – melleltávolító műtét
to contract – (betegséget) elkapni
to undergo – átesni valamin
carrier – hordozó
ovarian – petefészek
to estimate – felbecsülni, felmérni, kiszámítani
defect – hiány, rendellenesség
on average – átlagban
surgery – műtét
to interfere – gátolni, megakadályozni, beavatkozni
engagement – kötelezettség, elfoglaltság, program
duty – kötelesség, szolgálat
to attend – részt venni, járni, jelen lenni
summit – csúcstalálkozó
initial – kezdeti, első
to praise – dícsérni
treatment – kezelés
reassuring – megnyugtató
scar – sebhely, heg
fortunate – szerencsés
supportive – támogató
to assure  – biztosítani, megnyugtatni
womanliness – nőiesség
empowered – feljogosult, képes, felhatalmazott
to diminish – kisebbíteni, csökkenteni
to encourage – bátorítani, buzdítani

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