Altre 150 frasi veramente utili in inglese
By Jenny Smith
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Desideri capire il linguaggio utilizzato giornalmente e non soltanto l’inglese dei “libri di testo”?
Ho insegnato inglese per molti anni e ho visto che molti studenti rimangono bloccati alla fase principiante/intermedia. Imparano le basi e non riescono ad andare avanti. Questo problema per me era frustrante perché avevo molti studenti eccellenti che rimanevano bloccati e che alla fine decidevano di abbandonare.
Ho pensato a lungo a cosa non andasse bene e poi ho capito che non era lo studente a non avere le capacità, ma era quello che studiavano o come lo studiavano a non essere abbastanza efficace.
Notavo che, anche se avevano delle buone basi, l’inglese che leggevano nei libri di testo era infarcito della loro madrelingua (non era in inglese). Pensavo: “Perché leggono cose sull’inglese con tutto questo tedesco, giapponese ecc. e non leggono direttamente in inglese?”. Decisi di vedere se potevo risolvere il problema.
Iniziai ad assegnare agli studenti compiti del tipo “guarda quest’opera in inglese con i sottotitoli e poi senza” o “leggi un breve articolo ogni sera per un mese”. I risultati furono incredibili. I miei studenti iniziarono a diventare più fluenti e ad acquisire fiducia. Mi convinsi che il modo migliore per acquisire fluenza era leggere o guardare qualcosa in un inglese “vero” e che questo sistema poteva veramente essere interessante per gli studenti. Iniziai a scrivere delle storie utilizzando un inglese facile da capire, misto a frasi idiomatiche e phrasal verb, cosa che i madrelingua usano di continuo.
In questo libro ho aggiunto delle spiegazioni in inglese per consentire agli studenti di non fare confusione tra l’inglese e la propria madrelingua. Ho anche inserito degli esempi di facile comprensione che consiglio di annotare nel proprio quaderno perché utili per aiutare a ricordare con più facilità.
Credo che imparare le espressioni idiomatiche, i phrasal verb e le frasi più utili sia il modo migliore per andare avanti con l’inglese perché ti permette di utilizzare il vocabolario che i parlanti inglesi usano tutti i giorni.
Jenny Smith
Jenny Smith has been working as a midwife for 27 years, during which time she has delivered somewhere in the region of 1,000 babies. Currently Head Midwife at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in Hammersmith, London, Jenny Smith is founder of the immensely successful 'Jentle Midwifery Scheme' which introduced one-to-one midwife care at the hospital and turned all profits back into the NHS. Among her considerable accolades is the St George’s Hospital Special Achievement Award, won in 1998 for pioneering work with water births. She is currently working on a number of clinical trials and a paper for the British Medical Journal. Her specialized fields include high-risk pregnancies and deliveries. Jenny Smith lectures widely in Europe and the Middle East on fetal heart monitoring and is collaborating with Philips UK on the latest Telemetry research. Her published work includes medical research and she has also written and contributed to articles for a cross-section of publications, including The Guardian and pregnancy and childcare magazines. She was the consultant to Lucy Atkins book, Blooming Birth, published by HarperCollins in 2005.
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Altre 150 frasi veramente utili in inglese - Jenny Smith
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Boy Hears Girl
Part One
I have never been what you would call a ladies man. It’s not that I don’t like women or that I don’t want to go out with them, it’s just that I’ve never been that confident. Because of this, my mother is always worrying about me and trying to fix me up with people from her work. Anyway, a few years ago I was just on my way home from a disastrous date with someone my mother had set me up with when I decided to stop at a bar to drown my sorrows. I was sitting at the bar when I heard a woman talking on the phone. I didn’t mean to eavesdrop on her conversation, but there was something about her voice that caught my attention.
Phrases:
Not what you would call: this phrase is used when you want to politely say that the person or thing is completely different to the ‘adjective’ or ‘noun’ that follows the phrase. So for example, ‘She’s not what you would call hardworking’ means that she is not at all a hard worker. She is lazy.
Example 1: He’s not what you would call handsome.
Example 2: She’s not what you would call ‘a good employee’.
Ladies man: this phrase describes a man who is very popular with women. They are good at flirting and very confident around women.
Example: My cousin is such a ladies’ man. He’s always got a new girlfriend every time I see him.
To go out with someone: this means ‘to date’ someone. To have a romantic involvement with someone. It’s more commonly used in British English while ‘to date’ is more common in American English.
Example: I went out with a famous celebrity while I was at university.
To fix someone up (with someone else): this is when someone introduces two people to each other who may (in the future) like each other romantically.
Example: My sister fixed me up with her husband’s best friend.
To set someone up (with someone else): in this context it means the same as ‘to fix someone up’.
Example: I tried to set him up with my best friend but it didn’t work out.
To drown one’s sorrows: this means to drink alcohol in order to forget about your troubles.
Example: After my divorce I spent about two months just drowning my sorrows.
To eavesdrop on someone’s conversation: this is when you secretly listen to someone’s conversation without their permission or knowledge.
Example: She was a very jealous wife, she used to eavesdrop on her husband’s telephone calls to make sure that he wasn’t having an affair.
To catch one’s attention: this means that you noticed something. That you became aware of something.
Example: While all of the actors were good in that film, it was the actress that played the girlfriend that really caught my attention.
Part Two
I tried to mind my own business but my attention kept drifting to the woman’s voice. She was basically pouring her heart out to her friend about how she had just been dumped by her boyfriend. It turned out that her boyfriend had cheated on her and when she confronted him he just broke up with her. It was strange listening to her because although she was upset, there was a real dignity