The Rumour Mill

The Rumour Mill

The Rumour Mill – Gerüchteküche

NOTE: Business English etc.
can be found below the translation exercises.

Translate the Text into English: Übersetzen:

Susann, Faten, Rico, Heike, Simone, Frank and Tom.

Each time

Dangerous

Danger

Do not touch

Touch

Power supply

Power Connection

Work out

Cruising speed

Boarding conditions in the hotel

A.I. (holidays)

A.I.+ (holidays)

Boot (of a car)

Mark versteht es immer einen sehr lockeren aber auch intensiven Unterricht zu halten. Das freie Sprechen wird geübt und sowohl das Umgangsvokabular als auch das Fachvokabular permanent ergänzt. Dabei läßt er kleine Fehler zu, korrigiert aber auf sehr angenehme Art auch die groben Fehler.

Damit wird man immer animiert die Konversation weiter zu betreiben ohne „Angst“ vor Fehlern.

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Business English Word of the Week:

Geschäftsenglisch Wort der Woche:

Postpone until later – auf einen Späteren zeitpunkt verschieben

To bring forward a meeting – ein Treffen vorverlegen

Sample Sentences:

“Because of the planned strike, we will have to postpone our conference until later.“

“Because of the urgency of the issue, we will have to bring forward the meeting.“

 

Law English Word of the Week:

Gesetz Englisches Wort der Woche:

A law word/phrase = A more lenient sentence

Sample Sentence:y

“When considering the age of the defendant the Judge gave them a more lenient sentence.”

 

Vocabulary for Contracts:

Wortschatz für Verträge:

To wade through – to enter a fight, a discussion or an argument in an aggressive or not very sensitive way. Difficult to move through, takes a long time, is hard or a difficult task to do.

Sample Sentence:

“You have to wade through all the small print of a contract so that you can extract all the clauses.”

 

Vocabulary for Negotiations:

Wortschatz für Verhandlungen:

“We will be able to ….”

Sample Sentence:

“I understand that we can’t do that, but we will be able to discuss some other alternatives.”

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Word of the day: Wort des Tages:

Ambergris – whale puke: a waxy substance that originates as a secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale, found floating in tropical seas and used in perfume manufacture.

 

Phrase of the day: Satz des Tages:

It defeats the object – “defeating the object” is correct and usable in written English. You could use it to refer to an action that goes against the purpose of an endeavour.

Sample Sentence:

“I was trying to complete the project by myself without getting any help was defeating the object.”

 

Idiom of the day: Redewendung des Tages:

“A touch of the old Blarney.” – Ireland. – The meaning of BLARNEY is skilful flattery: blandishment. How to use blarney in a sentence.

Sample Sentence:

He never misses, to grow eloquent’. The term ‘blarney‘, meaning beguiling but misleading talk, gained currency during the 16th century as the MacCarthy of the day attempted to fend off the demands of Queen Elizabeth I.

 

British English / American English Vocabulary:

Britisches Englisch / Amerikanisches Englisch Wortschatz:

Green fingers – green thumbs

British English (B.E.) = Green fingers If someone has green fingers, they are very good at gardening and their plants grow well.

American English (A.E.) = green thumbs = the same meaning.

Sample Sentence:

[British] “You don’t need green fingers to fill your home with lush leaves.”

 

Special Grammar Tip of the Week:

Spezieller Grammatik-Tipp der Woche:

“More and more better“ = wrong. Correct is “Much better.”

 

Pronunciation tip: Aussprachetipp:

January

Efficiently

NOTE: These will be pronounced by me in the lesson.

Etch – edge

While – whilst

Multi-choice – multiple choice

Diarrhea

False Friends Tip of the Week:

Falsche Freunde Tipp der Woche:

The verb ‘To do‘ (Machen, Tun) – third person single = He/she/it does – a doe (a female deer ein Reh) – plural many female deer = Does

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Wit, wit, wit – Education:

Witz, Witz, Witz – Ausbildung:

“H.G. Wells’ History of the World is very good until the end of the Neolithic.”

Quote by A.J.P. Taylor.

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Slang word of the day:

Slangwort des Tages:

To have “The Runs” – “The Shits!” means to have ‘Diarrhoe’ – ‘Durchfall’.

Sample Sentence:

“Poor old Putin he had the shits when he heard Margret Thatcher was coming back from the dead to tell him how he should run Russia!”

Colloquial / Colloquialisms:

Umgangssprache / Umgangssprache:

Gibberish – das Kauderwelsch / der Quatsch means unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.

Sample Sentence:

 “Politicians talk a lot of gibberish.”

 

Cockney Rhyming Slang:

Cockney Reimender Slang:

Creamed = cream crackered = knackered (i.e. exhausted or beaten)

Sample Sentence:

“Cor I was cream crackered after running a marathon!”

 

Quote of the week: Zitat der Woche:

 

 

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