PHRASAL VERBS

Ask out: to invite someone for a date EX: brian asked judy out dinner and movie. back up: reverse EX:you´ll have to back up your car so i can get out. Blow up: add air EX: we have to blow 50 ballons up for the party. Count on: rely on EX: i am counting out you to make dinner while i am out. Do over: do over EX: my teacher wants me to do my eassy over , because she doesn´t like my topic. Fill in: to write information in blanks Ex: please fill in the form with your name Sort out: resove problem EX: we need to sort the bills out before the first of the month.

UNIT 3 WORLD CULTURES

If i lived abroad, i´d definitely miss my family. i don´t miss the food. I miss my family and friends that´s about it. in fact living back home would be boring, i think. I honestly don´t know what i´d do.

RECREATION IN THE UNITED STATED.

Americans have relatively little free time. Federal holidays, many states have their ownfestivals.
* CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR: important family holiday. Many households put aChristmas tree with lights and decorations, people give gifts for Christmas and made ​​afamily dinner with roast turkey or ham, potatoes and night .year end of the yearis traditionally go to a party.

* EASTER: American children associate this date with the imaginary bunny thatdelivers baskets of candy and chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday morning.

* The Thanksgiving Day: celebrating the harvest gathered by the colony of Plymouth in1621, after a winter of shortages entire families enjoy a traditional meal consisting ofturkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie or apple.

* SPORTS: Americans take the sport really. the most popular participatory sportsinclude swimming, cycling, skiing, hiking, and has the highest index aerobics.losviewers are baseball (national game), the football, and basketball.

Other proverbs,

Between the devil and the deep sea

To choose between two equally bad alternatives in a serious dilemma.}

Where there's a will there's a way

When a person really wants to do something, he will find a way of doing it.

A burnt child dreads fire

A bad experience or a horrifying incident may scar one's attitude or thinking for a lifetime.

First come, first served

The first in line will be attended to first

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A friend in need is a friend indeed

A friend who helps when one is in trouble is a real friend.

A hungry man is an angry man

A person who does not get what he wants or needs is a frustrated person and will be easily provoked to rage.

Empty vessels make the most noise

Those people who have a little knowledge usually talk the most and make the greatest fuss.

A man is as old as he feels

A person's age is immaterial - it is only when he thinks and feels that he is ageing that he actually becomes old.

Great talkers are little doers

Those people who talk a lot and are always teaching others usually do not do much work.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop

One who has nothing to do will be tempted to do many mischievous acts.

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit

It is better to be careful and discrete than to be clever.

Faint heart never won fair lady

To succeed in life one must have the courage to pursue what he wants.

A penny saved is a penny gained

By being thrifty one will be able to save up.

A rolling stone gathers no moss

A person who never settles in one place or who often changes his job will not succeed in life ; one who is always changing his mind will never get anything done.

As you sow, so you shall reap

One will either enjoy or suffer the consequences of his earlier actions or inactions.

Barking dogs seldom bite

Those who make loud threats seldom carry them out.

Better late than never

To do something that is right, profitable, or good a little late is still better than not doing it at all.

Unit 3: World cultures.

Lesson D: Proverbs

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These are some of the proverbs that have been mentioned in the article with their meanings.

1) You have to catch the hare before you can roast him.

It means that when you are planning on doing something, you have to know if your posibilities are good to manage to do the thing or things you want. Not planning before to obtein something you want.

2) He who hesitates is lost.

It means that who takes advantage of the oportunities first, can obtein something, Acting fast you can win!

3) Out of sight, out of mind.

It means that when you don´t see something, you don´t feel bad or fine about a situation or about somebody.

4) Many hands make light work.

It means that if there are many people doing something, the work can be easier.

5) A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.

It means that when you make a mistake once, we have the experience for not make the mistake again, you are going to be wiser.

6) you are beautiful but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.

It means that the beauty It´s only a quality but isn´t all, you have to study or work too.

7) There is no bad from wich doesn´t come.

It means that when you are in a bad situation, you have to think that It´s a way to learn something good.

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UNIT 3....what i am going to miss the most when i am faraway from my country?

They SAY that NOBODY KNOWS what they have until they LOSE IT, THats why IF i get THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE my country there are going o be MANY THINGS that I AM GOING TO MISS. for EXAMPLE. MY FAMILY, MY FRIENDS, THE TASTY FOOD, THE MUSic, THE BEACHES AND SO MANY THINGS that WHEN we HAVE IT we do NOT VALUE IT, BUT WHEN we HAVE THEM FAR AWAY we WANT TO BE HOME again. THE Dominican republic is full of culture AND compared to MANY COUNTRIES RD IS ONE OF THE most BEAUTIFUL with ITS PEOPLE,culture, and PLACES, ETC...