English School Chiavari

20/01/2014

WORD OF THE DAY:

* shunt |SHənt|
verb
1 [ with obj. ] push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one track to another: their train had been shunted into a siding.
• (usu. be shunted) push or shove (someone or something): chairs were being shunted back and forth.
• direct or divert (someone or something) to a less important place or position: amateurs were gradually being shunted to filing jobs.
2 [ with obj. ] provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted.

noun
1 an act of pushing or shoving something.
2 an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.
• Surgery an alternative path for the passage of the blood or other body fluid: [ as modifier ] : shunt surgery.

ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘move suddenly aside’): perhaps from shun.

20/01/2014

GRAZIE A TUTTI GLI STUDENTI PER LA VOSTRA PAZIENZA E COMPRENSIONI.

30/12/2013

Hello students, I hope your Christmas was great but know we're close to new year's eve and as promised we will be talking of resolutions.
Let us know what your resolutions are for the new year...be creative!

30/12/2013

This is Christmas!!!

28/12/2013

22/12/2013

Informiamo la gentile clientela che ENGLISH SCHOOL CHIAVARI resterà chiusa per ferie Natalizie dal 22/12 al 06/01 compresi.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

21/12/2013

WORD OF THE DAY:

* lie (2) |lī|

noun
an intentionally false statement: Mungo felt a pang of shame at telling Alice a lie | the whole thing is a pack of lies.
• used with reference to a situation involving deception or founded on a mistaken impression: all their married life she had been living a lie.

verb (lies, lying |ˈlī-iNG| , lied) [ no obj. ]
tell a lie or lies: why had Wesley lied about his visit to Philadelphia? | [ with direct speech ] : “I am sixty-five,” she lied.
• (lie one's way into/out of) get oneself into or out of a situation by lying: you lied your way on to this voyage by implying you were an experienced sailor.
• (of a thing) present a false impression; be deceptive: the camera cannot lie.

PHRASES
give the lie to serve to show that (something seemingly apparent or previously stated or believed) is not true: these figures give the lie to the notion that Britain is excessively strike-ridden.

I tell a lie (or that's a lie) informal an expression used to correct oneself immediately when one realizes that one has made an incorrect remark: I never used to dream—I tell a lie, I did dream when I was little.

lie through one's teeth informal tell an outright lie without remorse.

ORIGIN Old English lyge (noun), lēogan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch liegen and German lügen .

20/12/2013

– Whose present? an online game http://goo.gl/r9hKnY Santa and Amy have a bag full of presents, can your students help them to deliver them to the right children in time for Christmas?
– The Christmas tree http://goo.gl/rbXM38 a fun listening & speaking activity

20/12/2013

WORD OF THE DAY:

* eve |ēv|
noun
the day or period of time immediately before an event or occasion: on the eve of her departure he gave her a little parcel.
• the evening or day before a religious festival: the service for Passover eve.
• chiefly literary evening: a bitter winter's eve.
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘close of day’): short form of even.

THESAURUS:

eve
noun
1 the eve of the election: day before, evening before, night before; period (just) before.
2 literary a winter's eve: evening, night; end of day, close of day; twilight, dusk, sunset, sundown, nightfall; literary eventide, evenfall, gloaming. ANTONYMS morning.