Two popular fast foods are döner and currywurst. Döner is a Turkish‑German dish: warm pita with meat, vegetables, and sauce. Currywurst is a traditional German food: grilled sausage and curry ketchup sauce. Add some fries, and it’s heaven!
Chew your food!
Remember the different “you” words, du and Sie? Likewise, there are different ways to tell someone what to do, depending on whether it’s with friends and peers, or with strangers and superiors.
Tina, iss langsam!
Tina, eat slowly!
Frau B, essen Sie langsam!
Mrs. B, eat slowly!
Let’s buzz!
The letter s at the beginning of a word makes a buzzing bee sound!
Sonne, Sauerkraut , Senf (as in “zip”).
Kann, you believe this?
Keep kicking that second verb to the end, even in questions!
Warum musst du immer Kaffee trinken?
Why do you always have to drink coffee?
Willst du den Kartoffelsalat machen?
Do you want to make the potato salad?
Messer und Gabel.
Die Löffel.
Ich habe kein Messer.
Wofür ist dieses Löffel.
Sie ist einen Nachtisch.
Eure Kinder essen Kuchen.
Das Arbendessen ist nicht fertig.
Wir essen Abendessen.
Sie essen Kuchen.
Sie isst einen Nachtisch.
Das Messer ist nicht scharf genug.
Sie hat die Gabel.
Das Abendessen ist nicht fertig.
Ihr esst zu Abend.
Wir essen zu Abend.
Ich habe die Gabel.
Was ist dein Lieblingsessen?
Ich esse nichts.
Ich muss auf jeden Fall Eiskaffee trinken.
Wir machen ein Picknick und ich esse Kartoffelsalat.
“the core hours of work” mean that there are certain hours that someone has to be at their desk/in their office in order to answer the phones, and deal with customers, clients, suppliers etc.
Law English Word of the Week:
Gesetz Englisches Wort der Woche:
“to carry holiday days over to the next year / to cover over“. Your holiday entitlement for the year, for example of 30 days must be taken before the 31st of December and cannot be carried over to the new year. If you do not take these holiday days within this time, then you lose them.
Vocabulary for Contracts:Wortschatz für Verträge:
To give or provide the company with four weeks’ notice of quitting the contract.
Vocabulary for Negotiations:Wortschatz für Verhandlungen:
Whenever you are haggling over price, then never be the first person to commit to a number. Always let the other person speak first. The one who says a number is the one who loses.
Word of the day: Wort des Tages:
“Prudent”, (similar words in meaning:- look them up to find their exact meanings – Judicious, Practical, Sensible, Wise, Careful, Cautious, Discreet, Farsighted).
adjective: prudent acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
Sample Sentence:
“no prudent money manager would authorize a loan without first knowing its purpose.”
Phrase of the day: Satz des Tages:
Proverb: “To have your cake and eat it too.“
Meaning: = you can’t enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives.
Sample Sentence:
“The king wanted to have his cake and eat it — to marry Mrs Simpson and to remain on the throne”
“The Prince wanted to keep his old girlfriend and marry another younger girl to have children by – he wanted to have his cake and eat it too!“
Idiom of the day:Redewendung des Tages:
“Go back to the drawing board” means starting a task/job over again. To go back to the beginning when you had your idea/design only written down or sketched onto a drawing board – hence the idiom.
Sample Sentence:
After the Big Bang theory was conclusively refuted as complete and utter ‘bunkum‘ the scientists said, “Oh well boys, bang goes that theory, so it’s back to the old drawing board!“
“Woman with hat was a tremendous effort on the part of Matisse, a thing brilliant and powerful, but the nastiest smear of paint I had ever seen.” Quote by Leo Stein.
Slang word of the day:
Slangwort des Tages:
A cuppa / a cup of Rosie Leigh
‘A cuppa’ is the shortened version of “a cup of tea.” You might hear the expression “fancy a cuppa?” quite often which is normally always referring to tea. The British do love their tea after all!
Sample Sentences:
“Fancy a cuppa?”
“Cor, I can’t ‘alf do with a cup of Rosie Leigh!!!!”
ME HAVING A NICE CUPPA.
Cockney rhyming slang:Cockney Reimender Slang:
A Butcher’s = a butcher’s hook = look
Sample Sentences:
“Let’s have a Butcher’s then!”
“Take a Butcher’s why don’t ya!?”
“Ere give us a Butcher’s!“
Quote of the week:Zitat der Woche:
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.“
W. C. Fields.
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