Friday 29 April 2011
LIkes and Dislikes examples
1. Expressing Likes
I love chocolate. I love playing football. I love .
I like animals. I like dancing. I like .
*I fancy you. I fancy reading. I fancy .
I enjoy foreign films. I enjoy running. I enjoy .
I'm crazy about Beck. I'm crazy about skiing. I'm crazy about .
I'm mad about Brad Pitt. I'm mad about singing. I'm mad about .
*I'm keen on John. I'm keen on swimming. I'm keen on .
*I'm fond of her. I'm fond of cycling. I'm fond of .
is my favorite movie / actor / singer / book, etc.
looks / sounds / smells / tastes / feels good.
2. Expressing Dislikes
I hate spiders. I hate writing essays. I hate .
I don't like spinach. I don't like being cold. I don't like .
*I don't fancy her. I don't fancy playing cards. I don't fancy .
I can’t stand smoke. I can't stand being late. I can't stand .
I can't bear lazy people. I can't bear eating onions. I can't bear .
I can't put up with Mike. I can't put up with lying. I can't put up with .
I’m fed up with Jill. I'm fed up with wasting money. I'm fed up with .
I’m sick of homework. I'm sick of going to the movies. I'm sick of .
I’m tired of vegetables. I'm tired of being sick. I'm tired of .
really bugs me.
makes me mad / angry.
drives me crazy.
annoys me.
3. Expressing Indifference
Do you mind if I open the window? I don't mind.
Does it bother you if I smoke? It doesn't bother me.
Do you want to go here or there? It doesn't matter to me.
Which movie should we watch? It makes no difference to me.
Which book do you like more? It's all the same to me.
What do you want for dinner? I don't care.
Do you want this one or that one? I couldn't care less.
* British English
Adjectives order
Adjective Order
A new red Swiss army knife
When we use more than one adjective in a phrase, they usually follow this order:
| | age | color | origin | material | purpose | |
| a | new | red | Swiss | plastic | army | knife |
We can have other types of adjectives which we put before the age. These are general adjectives about the size, the shape and our opinion of the noun. Often we can change the order of these adjectives but we usually put the most important first.
Here we are concerned with taste:
| | opinion | size | |
| a | tasty | big | sandwich |
But if we think the most important thing about the sandwich is its size, we can say:
| | size | opinion | |
| a | big | tasty | sandwich |
When you write, it is best not to use too many adjectives. Certainly, never more than two or, at most, three in a phrase:
the sharp, Swiss army knife
a big, thick sandwich
Thursday 28 April 2011
"Love"
LOVE IS ENOUGH
is enough: though the world be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming there under,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder,
And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over
Love assed over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter:
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
William Morris (1834-96)
News
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Wednesday 27 April 2011
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