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