Words and phrases from my presentation - The relaunch

I’m in charge of …
To illustrate the need of …
state-of-the-art
We depend on …
letheral thinking
really tough time schedule

ready for rollout at the end of the year
these are the most important things - not “this are …”
HL wants - don’t forget the s
involved in supporting
these applications
this : these - singular : plural
that : those - singular : plural
on those sites
keeping up with - beeing as good as our competitors
project, system - stress 1st syllable
how it looks
how it should look
what it looks
beside me there was a consultant … - without s
more languages besides English and German - with the s
find all the information
It’s rewarding beeing part of this project.

Words from the movie “About Schmidt”

lasting friendships - continuing to exist or to have an effect for a long time, long living friendship
don’t dilly dally
a lot fo leftovers - Essensreste, positively speaking
R.S.V.P. - stands for a French phrase, “répondez, s’il vous plaît,” which means “please reply.” see howstuffworks.com
cheap casket - a cheap Sarg
Winnebago - a big caravan
Hummels - little figures
help yourself

What the heck? - What the heck / hell does this mean? (WTHDTM) - idiom “Was zum Teufel soll das bedeuten?”
goddamn - gottverdammt
I can’t make this goddamn think work.

Words of today

plague - die Pest
flees - on the rats causing a plague
the diary of Samuel Pepys - a history book; a journal of plague in London

Kiwi - say w not v; always Kiwi fruit
found it in the Internet, but
I was on the Internet

Didn’t we see … - not saw!
skirt - Rock
shirt - Hemd

rag - a jeans with holes, dirty
from rags to richs - vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär

ceiling windows - windows from the floor to the ceiling
assessment - evaluation

bare wires - wires with missing insulation
open manhole - Gully

comply with the law - dem Gesetz folgen
the AC - the automatic climate

Sitting Bull’s daughter

Words from the listening trainings

Checks to be run on racing companies

prospectuses - more than flyer, longer; leaflet with info, on paper, for advertisement
breed - growing and selecting horses, pigs, cows, …
demanding an outlay - investors have to spend
a company goes burst - goes bankrupt
encourage - try other to do sth; try to motivate
compensation = reimbursement
declines to comment - refuse to comment on it
stud - where horses live and breeded

It pays to advertise

lubrication oils - a special kind of oil
emblazoned - highlighted, printed everywhere
paid off - it works, generate a benefit
insists - adamant
apparently quite happy - sems to be quite happy
pursuit - search for it
persuade - influence it, but not necessarily convince sb (überreden)

Up goes the cost of cover

has soared by 600% - has increased by 600%
caravans are clamped - locked with a yellow clamp (Kralle); usually on cars too
slump - slow down, take long
baer the cost - die Kosten ertragen

Foreign office responds to budget cuts

Embassies will be shut - shut, shut, shut; = closed
sharing premises - sharing room or space, here office space
No smoking on the premises except designating rooms.
adamant - insistent, beharrlich

Words from the movie “Good Will Hunting”

soulmate - sb who challenges you
shepard - observes sheeps
that sucks - that’s bad, horrible
a janitor - a facility manager
Take the best chance you get!

Words and phrases from the reading comprehensions

Piracy and Terrorism

growing menace - growing danger
irresistible prey - a non defendable victim
a “diry bomb” could lay waste to a port - … could destroy a port
ship-to-shore alert system - ship-to-coast alert system
It is likely, however, … - it is likely, nevertheless or althogh, …
fail to comply by the July 1 deadline - fail to fullfil the deadline
most vulnerable shipping lanes - most easily to damager shipping lanes
A major disruption could cripple the global economy. - disruption = incident, cripple = unable to walk properly, handicapped, challenged
canal - build by human
channel - natural, often bottlenecks
copycats - Trittbrettfahrer
waste sb - kill, destroy sb
attic - in a house the space directly under the roof

Companies in the City of London

with the advent of the European single currency - with the coming …
virtually - almost identical
the City controls - rather manage, maintain, but not steer; controlled by law
agglomeration factor - accumulation factor
Frankfurt’s ambition to oust London - oust = push out
decision to defer its entry to European Monetary Union - defer = delay

Today’s words I want to remember

what it looks like - never how it looks like; but How does it look?
always: I work … - and not I am working … , there is no end

transport chain
spot checking the containers - means ckeck some choosen by random

forgetful
cheek - the two parts in face beside the mouth
a Philips screw - a crew with crosshead +

US units - open their mind with the question: “What’s your surname?

rivet - from steel or iron formely used to construct ships

Irregular verbs

feel - felt - felt, but
fall - fell - fallen

shoot - shot - shot
draw - drew - drawn

My words of this day

feet - always without an s at the end
Easter - never an n at the end

My daughter turns 12.
treadmill - in a gym to train to run without moving
stair case - Treppenhaus
construction side - place where new houses at build
a lot of Germans - with an s at the end
my subconscious - Untergrundbewusstsein
I don’t know Berlin very well.
short and to the point
more news?
What have you done since we last met?
eventually - at the end of a period of time or a series of events (Our flight eventually left five hours late.)
suffer to a certain degree

ache - a continuous feeling of pain in a part of the body
throb - to feel a series of regular painful movements (My feet were throbbing after the long walk home.)

overweight, oversized - airport language only

rocky chair - a chair with two curved pieces of wood under it that make it move backwards and forwards
we are outrated - überstimmt

nice - sympathisch
hierarchy companies of the nineties
reconciliation - an end to a disagreement and the start of a good relationship again

Matching prefixes

nonsupportive - supportive: giving help
nonassertive - assertive: expressing opinions and desires strongly and with confidence
noncreative
noncompetitive

impatient
impractical

uncommunicative
uncommitted
unco-operative
unreliable
unintelligent
unapproachable

irresponsible
irrational

insensitive
indescreet
inconsistent
inarticulate - articulate: express/explain your thoughts or feelings clearly in words
indecisive - decisive: very importand for the final result of a particular situation
insincere

dishonest
disloyal