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Vocabulary: St Paul's - Heroes and Executions. Wednesday 31st July 2013

5/8/2013

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Dear all
Thank you to all of you for participating in the English Conversation Walk around the St Paul's area. We were so lucky with the weather and the most rain we got, was a few spots!

Below, is some of the vocabulary that we went over together in the pub at the end.

I look forward to seeing you all again soon.
Best Wishes
Gail


Vocabulary: Heroes and executions – Wednesday 31st August 2013

To drown (verb): To die in water because it’s not possible to breathe. E.g. the boy fell in the river and drowned.  

To sink (verb) (pt sank  pp sunk): a) to go down or make something go down under the surface of water (or other liquids). E.g. the little girl put her paper boat on the pond and watched it sink.

b) to be sunk (expression): When something bad has happened to you and you feel hopeless. E.g. He lost all his money and now he feels sunk.

steep (adjective): a) (used about a hill, mountain etc). When a hill rises or falls quickly, at a sharp angle. E.g. Snow Hill  is the highest hill in the City of London but it’s not very steep!

b) to be steeped in something (adj): having a lot of something, full of something. E.g. London is steeped in history.

steeple (noun): The tower on the roof of a church.

A barrel (noun): a) A large, round, wooden (or plastic or metal) container used for liquids. It has a flat top and bottom and is wider in the middle. E.g. In the 18th century, a gang called the Mohock Gang kidnapped elderly women and placed them in a barrel. Then they rolled the barrel downhill!!

b) a barrel of laughs (idiom): If someone is a barrel of laughs, they are always making jokes and you find them very funny.

c) roll out the barrel (informal): Originally a popular song from World War Two. Today, it’s used when a group of people plan to drink a lot of alcohol and they say: ‘Come one, roll out the barrel!’

a pub crawl (noun): When a group of people go from one pub to another and have a drink in each one.  

hodgepodge (noun): The same as mishmash.  

a barrow (noun): A small thing on two wheels on which fruit, vegetables etc are moved or sold in the street, especially in a market.

 a deck (noun): a) a floor on a ship or bus.

b) on deck: on the part of the ship which you can walk on outside.

c) a deck of cards: a pack of cards.

d) a double-decker bus: a bus with a downstairs and upstairs.

e) a deckchair (noun): A chair that you use outside, especially on the beach. E.g. we saw some deckchairs in one of the squares that we walked through. Business people were sitting in them eating their lunch.   

a high chair (noun): A special chair with long legs and a little seat and table. It’s for a small child to sit in when eating.

stationery (noun): writing and other office materials e.g. envelopes, paper, pens, paper etc.

stationary (adjective): When something is not moving, it is ‘stationary’. E.g. the car was stationary when the accident happened.


A slum (noun): An area of a city where living conditions are extremely bad, and where the buildings are dirty and haven’t been repaired for a long time.

To shadow (verb): To follow and watch somebody’s action. E.g. the police shadowed the suspect for three days.

Cutlery (noun): The knives, forks and spoons that you use for eating food.

Grade I listed and Grade II listed: A listed building in the UK is a building that has been placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural interest. They are protected by law. Some open land in the UK is also listed and, therefore, protected.





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Vocabulary: Walthamstow Saturday 20th July 2013

26/7/2013

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Hello everyone
I thoroughly enjoyed walking with you last Saturday and sharing the history about Walthamstow. All of you did excellent research so a very big thank you.

Below you'll find some of the vocabulary that we went over at the end.
I look forward to seeing you all again.
Best Wishes
Gail


Vocabulary Walthamstow – Saturday 20th July 2013

A stick of rock (noun): a long, hard stick-shaped sweet. Traditionally, they are pink and the name of the seaside resort runs through the middle. They are hard to eat and can break teeth!!

Candy floss (noun): a mass of pink (or white) fluffy sugar that is spun around a stick. We usually find candy floss at fun-fairs and the seaside. They are very sweet!

A sweet tooth (noun): When someone really likes sweet food, we say they have a ‘sweet tooth’ or that they are ‘sweet-toothed’ (adj). E.g. I’ve got a sweet tooth because I eat chocolate and biscuits and cakes and puddings every day!

Obese (adjective): When someone is very fat and overweight, we say that they are obese. The UK has the highest level of obesity (mass noun) in Europe. E.g. She’s obese because she eats chocolate and biscuits and cakes and puddings every day!

A nap (noun): a short sleep that is taken during the day. E.g. My mum takes a nap every afternoon.

A kip (noun) (informal English): to sleep. E.g. I’m going to have a kip when everyone’s left.

To sunbathe (verb): to lie in the sun in order to get a tan.

A mate (noun) (informal English): a friend. E.g. She’s an old mate of mine. E.g. They’ve been mates since they were children.

A classmate / flatmate / teammate / playmate: We often add ‘mate’ when we talk about activities that are shared by a group of people. It means doing something specific together, not necessarily as friends.

Mate (British slang): Often used to address (speak to) someone who is not necessarily a friend or known to you. E.g. Give me a hand mate. E.g. Thanks mate.

An inmate (noun): a person who lives (usually by force) in an institution such as a prison or hospital. E.g. My grandparents were very poor and became inmates of Walthamstow Workhouse.

A resident (noun): people who live in an old people’s home are called ‘residents’ (not inmates).

Cycling (mass noun): The sport or activity of riding a bike. E.g. My brother goes cycling in the mountains every summer.

To cycle (verb): to ride a bicycle. E.g. She cycles to work every day.

Words for bikes:

A cycle

A bike

A bicycle

Boris bikes (the bikes for hire in London, named after the London Mayor)

To smuggle (verb): to take things in or out of a country secretly and illegally. E.g. Tea was smuggled into England when parliament raised the taxes and tea was too expensive.

A smuggler (noun): A person who takes things in or out of a country secretly and illegally.

To traffic (verb): The same as ‘to smuggle’. ‘To traffic’ is a more common word today. We use it for when drugs, children, people etc are brought illegally into the country. E.g. They traffic in drugs and last year, brought thousands of tons of heroin into the UK.

A trafficker (noun): A person who brings drugs etc into the country. E.g. a drug trafficker / a human trafficker / a child trafficker etc.

A pit (noun): a) a large hole that is made in the ground. E.g. They dug pits to bury all the dead bodies during the Plague of 1665.

b) a coal mine. We often call coal mines ‘pits’.

c) to be the pits (slang): to be very bad e.g. the food in that restaurant last night was the pits!

Rude (adjective): not polite. E.g. He was very rude to his boss yesterday. E.g. It’s very rude to interrupt when people are talking.

To abuse (something or somebody) (verb): to use something/body in a bad and dishonest way. E.g. the politicians abused their position so that they could become rich.

Abuse (noun): as above. E.g. an abuse of power. E.g. The teachers talked to the young people about the dangers of drug abuse.

Cruel (adjective): cause physical or mental suffering to someone or something. E.g. The bosses of the workhouse were cruel to the inmates. They beat them every day.

Cruelty (noun): E.g. cruelty to children or animals is against the law.



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