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

The evening movie “Once”

If you like the singer-songwriter style of music you sureley will like Once too. Glen Hansard’s often soft and somtimes powerful voice makes his songs different in a good meaning. Check out RT’s reviews.

It starts like a romance but has a more realistic end, which some maybe think it’s open. The film started in Germany in Jan 2008.

Interesting music of today

In relation with the movie Crash I heard first time of Bird York. The title song of this movie is “In the Deep” from her album “The Velvet Hour”.

I tried the album “Wicked Little High” and I liked it. Especially the song “Freedom”. the album has a kind of relaxing sound.

All links goes to last.fm my favourite music recommendation system. You can listen to music similar to an entered artist.
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Self study tasks April

Check the three web sites: Obama, Clinton, McCain

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

Word pairs from the floor

self employed
risk-taking
bank managers
according to
communication skills
people-oriented
people-centred - both very similar
make decisions - never do decisions
high fliers - a person who rise fast to the top of a company
push ahead
secret of success
perfect example
bluepring for success
tight budgeting - low, limited, reduced budget
started up
management qualities
forward planning
ceiling - the opposite of floor
glass ceiling - in business; unseen barrier, a barrier not seen by woman and you cannot pass

Today’s movie “Crash”

A maybe difficult to understand music with a lot of toching moments. I found it very realistic. I think this a strenght of this movie even there is a lot of revenge in it. It does not try to tell the story in black and white; means that one character is good and another bad. The world is not so easy, I think.

I appreciate that this movie is intend to lead into a discussion about this subject, which I assumed was the main reason why the story goes like a rollercoaster. Some want to see it again because it can be confusing because of this complexity of this movie. This might be the reason why the tomatometer is cautious.
car jackers - steel cars
touching moments
redneck - white member of the Southern rural laboring class
You embarass me. - You make me looking foolish.
brake - used to stop a car