Lună: octombrie 2021

Even though it’s relatively new to Romanians, Halloween is a great holiday for both kids and grown-up. This is the time to explore your creativity and imagination and come up with the best spooky decorations for your homes, as well as some really amazing costume ideas.

Today’s blog entry will help you boost your vocabulary and get ready for a fun Halloween experience.

Spooky creatures:

• Ghost- the spirit of a dead person that someone sees or hears
• Werewolf – an imaginary creature that is human during the day but becomes a wolf at night when there is a full moon
• Poltergeist- a spirit that throws objects around and makes loud noises
• vampire – a character in stories who appears at night to bite people’s necks and suck their blood
• bogeyman- an imaginary evil creature used in stories for frightening children
• mummy – a dead body that has been treated with special oils and wrapped in long narrow pieces of cloth to prevent it from decaying, especially in ancient Egypt
• zombie- a dead person in some religions and stories who looks and behaves as though they are alive as a result of magic

Spooky places:

• haunted castle/mansion/ house= a building lived in or visited by the spirit of a dead person
• graveyard- an area of land where dead people are buried, usually around a church
• eerie forest –a haunted, scary forest
• crypt- an underground room where the bodies of dead people are buried, usually under a church

Witchy Words and Phrases:

• broomstick – a type of broom made with sticks and twigs. Witches are often shown riding through the air on broomsticks in children’s stories.
• cauldron – a large round metal container used for cooking over a fire
• hex- an evil spell
• necromancy- the practice of communicating with dead people in order to learn about the future
• magic potion – a drink that is believed to be magic, poisonous, or useful as a medicine
• warlock- a man who has magic powers, especially a man who uses these powers to do evil things
• curse- the words used for causing bad luck

Feelings in Spooky Situations:

• creeped out- nervous or frightened not know what to
• frozen with fear- so shocked or frightened that you can’t move
• horror-stricken – so shocked or frightened that you do not know what to do
• petrified
• unnerved – nervous or frightened

Party Vocabulary for Halloween:

•     candy
•     costume party
•     disguise
•     face paint
•     ghost story
•     jack-o’-lantern – an empty pumpkin with a face cut into it and a light inside that can be seen through the holes.
•     masks
•     trick or treat- a custom in which children visit your home at Halloween and say ‘Trick or treat?’ as a way of asking for sweets

Feeling ready for Halloween?

Germania este o țară cu adevărat fascinantă. Cu o istorie bogată, locuri frumoase și multe oportunități academice sau profesionale, Germania este o destinație foarte ofertantă. Limba germană e considerată o limba dificil de învățat, dar, dacă planuiești să călătorești sau să te muți în Germania, vei avea surpriza să descoperi că o mare parte din germani vorbesc engleză (chiar forte bine) și că sunt dornici să te ajute să exersezi limba lor maternă.

În rândurile ce umează, vom explora câteva lucruri pe care să le faci dacă planuiești sa viziteti Germania

1. Vizitează Neuschwanstein Castle (Schloss Neuschwanstein).

Castelul făcut celebru de Frumoasa adormită a lui Walt Disney, acesta este cea mai fotografiată clădire din Germania. Construit de Ludwig II of Bavaria, Neuschwanstein Castle este o bijuterie arhitectonică, a cărei arhitectură ar fi fost inspirata de muzica lui Richard Wagner.

2. Mergi la Zidul Berlinului.

Construit in 1961, pentru a separa Germania de Est de Germania de Vest, acest zid a fost un simbol al fricii și presiunii, până în noiembrie 1989. Dacă îl vizitezi astăzi, vei vedea doar ruine și graffiti, dar vei trăi cu siguranță o experiență emoțională profunda.

3. Fă plajă la Schleswig-Holstein: Sylt.

Acest loc pitoresc de pe coasta de nord a Germaniei este denumit St. Tropez-ul Nordului. Vei găsi aici valuri ideale pentru surfing, magazine de lux și restaurante cochete.

4. Fă o plimbare relaxantă la Potsdam: Sanssouci Park.

 

Un loc de relaxare cu un aer regal, parcul Sanssouci e ideal pentru plimbări lungi, în timpul cărora poți admira grădinile luxuriante și palatele sofisticate construite de Frederick the Great.

5. Petrece o zi plină de inspirație la muzeele din Weimar

În acest oraș vechi de 1000 de ani s-au plimbat Nietzsche, Liszt, Bach, Goethe, Schiller și mulți alții. Weimar este una dintre destinațiile “intelectuale” favourite ale turiștilor.

6. Planifică o zi plină de distracție la Rust: Europa-Park.

Acest parc tematic îți va sigura o zi fantastică cu familia. Poți face curse de Formula 1, poți vizita o stație spațială MIR în miniatură sau poți lua prânzul în Cartierul Francez. Indiferent de vârstă sau gen, vei avea parte de o experiență de neuitat.

7. Mergi până la BMW Museum

Germania este renumită pentru producția de mașini de lux. Dacă însă intri in muzeul futuristic BMW, vei avea sentimental că ești părtaș la crearea unor opera de artă. Iubitor sau nu de mașini, această experiență te va face să respecți această industrie.

 

8. Mergi la Oktoberfest

Dacă iubești berea și vrei să fii parte dintr-o experiență germană autentică, vizitează Germania în octombrie. Oktoberfest este cel mai important Volksfest ( bere + folclor) din lume. De-a lungul a 17 zile de festival, se beau 7.7 milioane de litri de bere, se consumă mâncăruri tradiționale și se participă la tot felul de activități distractive.

Sper că acest scurt articol ți-a deschis apetitul pentru o călătorie în Germania. Pentru o experiență cât mai autentică, încearcă să înveți limba acestei țări fascinante. Te asteptăm la Lektor pentru primul tău curs de limba germană!

 

If you are passionate about the English language and mostly about idioms, we have some amazing news: some of the expressions you’ve been using regularly have actually been invented by …Shakespeare. having fathered over 1700 words or expressions, the English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist, is known to have contributed massively to the development of the English language,

Today’s blog entry is dedicated to those expressions and idioms that Shakespeare’s characters introduced to the English language. Let’s explore some of them together. Who knows, by the end of this article, you’ll maybe realize you’ve been quoting Hamlet all along.

• „All that glisters is not gold.” (Merchant of Venice)
  We usually use this phrase after we discover that something that looks good turns out not to be that great, and substitute „glitters” for „glisters.”
• “As good luck would have it” (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
  This means something happened to you that was pure chance or luck.
• „Break the ice” (The Taming of the Shrew)
  Often when you meet someone for the first time, you „break the ice” by asking them polite questions about themselves.
• „Clothes make the man.” (Hamlet)
  Although not always true, this phrase implies that how a person dresses tells you something about who they are as a person.
• “Cold comfort” (King John)
  It’s a form of consolidation, but it is a bad consolidation since the whole situation is bad like dropping the inflation rate for millions of unemployed would be a “cold comfort.”
• “Come what come may” („come what may”) (Macbeth)
  Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. You are accepting that fact.
• “Devil incarnate” (Titus Andronicus)
  This describes someone that is evil and scheming like a reincarnation of the devil.
• “Eaten me out of house and home” (2 Henry IV)
  You might hear parents say this about teenagers a lot. They’ve eaten so much that all the food is gone.
• „Fair play” (The Tempest)
  Follow the rules, especially in competitions or sports
• „A laughing stock” (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
  To be a laughing stock is to be considered a joke by many people.

• „In a pickle” (The Tempest)
  To be „in a pickle” is to be in trouble or in a situation that you cannot easily get out of.
• „It’s Greek to me” (Julius Caesar)
  When you say, „it’s Greek to me,” you are admitting that you do not know or understand something.
• “Pound of flesh” (The Merchant of Venice)
  When this phrase is used it is talking about a cruel or unusual punishment.
• “Such stuff as dreams are made on” (The Tempest)
  Describes when something is so good that it is just like a dream.
• „The lady doth protest too much” (Hamlet)
  If someone denies something more than once, you can say „the lady doth protest too much,” meaning you think that they feel the opposite of what they are saying.
• „Too much of a good thing” (As You Like It)
  It is said that „too much of a good thing” (i.e. money, love, food) is not necessarily good for you.
• „Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve” (Othello)
  To be a hopeless romantic (or be open and honest about how you feel) is to wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve.
• “Wild-goose chase” (Romeo and Juliet)
  When someone leads you on a wild chase to find them, it is commonly known as a wild-goose chase.
• “What’s done is done” (Macbeth)
  It is done, and there is no going back. You must simply deal with the consequences.

These old, but very commonly used expressions will definitely help give your vocabulary a boost! If you want to further your study and discover other useful things about the English language, book a course with Lektor!