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Teaching  to   Learn  (5) the silver lining get married  - oženit se / vdát se. Toto spojení lze použít i s předmětem, potom za ním musí následovat předložka TO, nikoli  with !! (I met a gorgeous girl and  got married to her  almost immediately). Případně můžete použít pouze sloveso MARRY (I met this girl and I  married her ...) commitnent  - závazek (be commited to sth. - být něčemu oddaný) be truthful with sb.  - vždycky si říkat navzájem pravdu it came home to her  - konečně si to plně uvědomila, došlo jí to three-year-old  - tříletý (pokud takto chcete tvořit číselné údaje spojené s věkem, pak u podstatného jména YEAR nesmí být na konci -s a všechna tři slova musí být spojena spojovníky ("krátkými pomlčkami") make sth. up  - vymýšlet si my wife heard me trying  - slyšela, že se snažím (znovu připomínám dvě možné varianty - infnitiv  bez  -to  nebo  -ing  tvar (heard me try O...

Teaching  to   Learn  (5) the silver lining I  got married  while I was a teacher. Getting married is a sacrament, it's a  commitment  to  be truthful with  another person and this was the first time I thought, "OK, I'm going to trust this person, I'm going to tell her." I practised in front of the mirror: "Cathy, I can't read. Cathy, I can't read." And one evening we were sitting on the couch and I said, "Cathy, I can't read." But she didn't really understand what I was saying. She thought I was saying that I didn't read much. You know, love is blind and deaf. So we got married and we had a child and years later it really  came home to her . I was reading to our  three-year-old  daughter. We read to her  routinely , but I wasn't really reading, I was  making  the stories  up  - stories that I knew, like Goldilocks and The Three Bears, I just added drama to them. But this was a new book, Rumpelstil...

Teaching  to  Learn  (4) to teach or not to teach sure enough  - a taky že jo / fakt že jo multiple choice  - výběr z možností dormitory  - studentská kolej shortage  - nedostatek, úbytek I was offered a job  - nabídli mi práci. Podobně se používá trpný rod např. se slovesem TELL (Have you been told? - Řekli ti to už?) či GIVE (She was given a present - Dostala dárek / Dali jí dárek) without getting caught  - aniž by mě někdo chytil. Je zde trpný rod, protože on se určitě sám chytit nechtěl, k tomu sloveso GET musí být v -ing tvaru kvůli předložce without being a teacher seemed a good place to hide  - 1)  being  nezvykle v -ing tvaru slouží jako podmět; 2) zvykněte si používat SEEM přímo s podmětem ( he seems to  be a nice guy;  the boss seems to  be glad); 3) výrazy  place ,  time ,  thing  a  way  se pojí s infinitivem s  -to  (place to hide, thing to ...

Teaching  to  Learn  (4) to teach or not to teach He opened it, gave me a key, and  sure enough ,  to  my great relief there were more than 40 copies of the exam - a  multiple choice  paper - in the top drawer of the file cabinet. I took one copy back to my  dormitory , where a "smart" classmate made a cheat sheet with all the correct answers. We carried the file cabinet back and at five o'clock in the morning I was walking up to my room and thinking, "Mission impossible accomplished!" - and I was feeling pretty good that I was so clever. But then I walked up the stairs, lay down in my bed and started weeping like a baby.  Why didn't I ask for help? Because I didn't believe there was anybody  out there  who could teach me to read. This was my secret and I guarded that secret. My teachers and my parents told me that people with college degrees get better jobs, they have better lives, and so  that's what  I bel...

Teaching  to  Learn  (3) cheating out copy  - opsat  I didn't know what those questions said  - nevěděl jsem, co to bylo za otázky / co na té tabuli bylo napsáno. Je dobré si uvědomit, že sloveso SAY se používá ve významu "být někdo psáno", např. What does the the noticeboard say? - co je napsáno na nástěnce?; Can you tell me what my T-shirt says? - Řekla bys mi, co mám napsané na tričku? Rozhodně nepoužívejte konstrukce typu  what is there written  apod. I arranged for a friend of mine to...  - zařídil, aby jeden kamarád byl... he fixed him up with a girl  - dal ho dohromady s jednou holkou who he wanted to go to a dance with  - význam je, předpokládám, jasný, gramaticky je zde důležitá předložka na konci, která se obecně takto umisťuje ve vztažných větách (I met a friend of mine who I went to school  with  - potkal jsem kamaráda, s kterým jsem chodil do školy; Are you talking about the competition that you s...

Teaching  to  Learn  (3) cheating out In one exam the professor put four questions on the board. I was sitting at the back of the room, near the window, behind the older students. I had my blue book and I painstakingly copied  the four questions off the board. I didn't know what those questions  said . I had arranged  for a friend of mine to be  outside the window. He was probably the smartest kid in school, but he was also shy and he'd asked me  to fix him up with  a girl by the name of Mary who he wanted to go to the spring formal dance  with . I passed my blue book out the window to him and he answered the questions for me. I had another blue exam book underneath my shirt and I  took it out  and pretended I was writing in it. I was praying that my friend  was going to be able to  get my book back  to  me and that he was going to get the right answers. I was so desperate. I needed to pass courses. I...

Teaching  to  Learn  (2) growing up give up on sb.  - vzdát to s někým, zlomit nad někým hůl (předminulý čas je zde proto, že tou dobou, co byl v páté třídě, už to vzdal) get dressed  - obléknout se. Ohledně oblékání znovu připomenu další věci, které je dobré znát kromě tohoto  get dressed , a sice  get changed  (převléknout se)  put on sth.  (obléknout si něco) a  take off sth.  (svléct si něco). Často studenti chybně používají  put off  místo  take off . hostile  - nepřátelský (kolektiv, prostředí, podmínky apod.) most of the day  - většinu dne, větší část dne  I was in fights  (nebo také  I got into fights ) - pral jsem se se spolužáky I got expelled  - vyloučili mě it wasn't who I felt inside  - tak jsem se uvnitř necítil (pěkný zdůrazňovací prostředek) I got tired of embarrassing myself  - už mě nebavilo se ztrapňovat / měl jsem dost té ostudy behave...