Advanced English: kartičky | advanced-english

animal phrasal verbs

to dog someone … to judge or criticize someone for something, to persistently bother someone
to duck … to get down in order to dodge something (you can also dodge a question or something)
to squirrel away … to save something for future use
to be dogged [ˈdɒgɪd] … to be marked by stubborn determination
to hound someone … to persistently harass someone
to ape someone / someone's behaviour … to imitate someone in a clumsy/mocking way
to slug someone, slug it out … to strike someone heavily
to chicken out
to wolf down
to rat on someone / to rat someone out
to be cowed
to bug someone … to annoy someone

Aesop's Fables

Πυθαγόρας → a bonus point on a test
to establish … to prove, to show something is true
to hold … to state
to style … to portray, to try to look like
thence = thenceforth
- henceforth … from now on
- thenceforth … from that point on (from then on)
to centre … to focus on
to be derived from … to come from
questions
- what's the moral
- do you agree with the moral
- does the story make sense
- was the animal choice logical
- how would the animals react to them being involved there
- retell the story

heagle

to heagle (v., intransitive) = to panic around, to panic and run around like a blue-arsed fly, to be in a state of confusion and run around because of that
- You're heagling around!
- Susan was very confused and started to heagle.
- There's no need to heagle!
- Heagle! at the Disco

more verbs

dread: dislike (ing), dread to think… / dread to imagine… (to do)
see + obj.: part of the process (ing), the whole process (do)
forget = don't remember; memory (ing), not remember (to do)
hate: dislike (ing), statement (to do; I hate to tell you…)

heagle's natural habitat

When I stepped foot in the streets of Los Angeles for the first time, I was petrified by the scene. I saw junkies riding heagles all around the place. The poor animals had to leave their original habitat due to the lack of food and this place became their new home. Now, they are used by the omnipresent drug adicts as a mean of transport and they feed on fentanyl. It is rather dangerous to approach them as their beak is a powerful weapon.

word transformation

spectacle
- spectacles
- spectacular
- spectator
action
- reaction, interaction
- to act
- to overact
- inaction
- active
- activity
appear
- disappear
- reappear
- appearance
- apparent
king
- kingpin
- kingfisher (ledňáček)
- kingdom
- kingslayer
- kingly
similar
- dissimilar
- dissimilarity
- similarity
play
- playful
- gameplay
- replay
- player
- playground
- playback
- to outplay
supreme
- supremacy
- supremely
like
- likelihood, likeliness
- likely
- alike
- likeminded
- dislike
- unlike
- take a liking

grammar

as … as
as much as
as many as
as … as possible
as … as ever
well-under
well-over
virtually all
a tiny minority
a large majority

heagle marketing

as big as a horse
as american as an eagle
as quick as a cheetah
as friendly as Pikatchu
as cute as a puppy
as protective as a pitbull

bear under

underbear – a wrong word (or very archaic)

yay × nay

naysayer

ržát – neigh

gentle neight – whinny, nicker

fable about heagle

Once upon a time, there were a horse and an eagle which agains all odds really loved each other. A child came from their love, hence heagle was born. However, it was not popular among eagles nor horses as it didn't ressemble any of them. Thus it didn't really belong anywhere and it was devastated. One day, there was a big fire. The eagles flew away into safety. The horses managed to survive the fire but all the grass burnt down. Thenceforth the horses started to die one by one. But not the heagle, it feasted on their flesh.

is global warming caused by people?

yay
nay
- volcanoes cause more greenhouse gas emissions than cars
- it's a cycle, it's natural
- we don't have enough strength to change the climate
- the Earth is so old that…
- it's a God's plan

reported speech

it is safer to use past tense
we can use present if we are sure those things still apply

tentative

I've been wandering…
I was thinking…

fronting

My reaction was bad, even worse was my colleagues reaction.
Climbing in through the window is very hard, much easier is using the door.
- Having no privacy was bad, even worse was having to pay high taxes.
(As) quick as they were, they still couldn't outrun the robot dog.
- As communist as the society was, it still wasn't communist enough for Ida Auken.
I don't know where I can go. → Where I can go, I don't know.
- How an infinite energy glitch became a thing, I don't know.
The trouble is, the AI guard will not let us leave this room.
- The question is, how high the taxes need to be to pay for all the "free" stuff.

infer – vyvodit (z dat)

we can infer from the data that…
the data imply that…

take one of these statements and apply it to matfyz and explain why it is true

or make up our own

It's often better to be in chains than to be free.

It has been estimated that around 90% of Matfyz students are happier than the average person. And yet they have only five minutes of free time a day on average.
The data suggest the students don't have time to think about being unhappy.
That's because their timetables are deliberately constructed in a way that prevents them from having any free time.

Kofola society

hierarchy: anarchy
function:
- money = Kofola
- fuel = Kofola
- beverage = Kofola
- all you need is Kofola
- and we read a lot
we put a little bit of poison in the Kofola in order to prevent people from drinking too much Kofola
we organize some Justin Bieber concerts to gain the trust of other people living near us