English with a Native

Yummy! How would you describe our traditional Romanian dishes? Stuffed cabbage with polenta, sausages with cooked cabbage. There are many more dishes such as meatballs with mashed potatoes, snitzel with rice, garlic chicken with broccoli, spaghetti bolognese, seafood pasta, trout, salmon with rice, steak with baked potato, pork or beef and vegetable stew, cheese or ham and cheese omelettes, poached eggs, eggs sunny side up, scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, crepes, pancakes, cereal with milk, yoghurt with fruit and cereal, vegetable beef soup, chicken noodle soup, bean and smoked sausage soup, tripe soup, cream of vegetable soup, coleslaw, summer salad, caesar salad, pickled vegetables, grilled veggies, tiramisu, ice cream sundae, banana split, chocolate cake, lava cake, pudding, cheesecake, apple pie or strudel, fruit salad, crepes, and so.much more! What s your favorite dish?

Vocabulary Development! Start with the verb and then see how many forms of that word you can come up with!

Let s see.....

To act, acting, actor, actress
To believe, belief, believer
To consume, consumption, consumer, consumerism
To achieve, achievement, achiever
To survive, survival, survivor
To employ, employment, employee, employer
To produce, production, producer
To beautify, beauty, beautiful, beautifier
To retire, retirement, retiree
To promote, promotion, promoter
To recruit, recruitment, recruiter, recruitable
To apply, application, applicable
To punish, punishment, punitive, punisher
To reward, reward, rewarding
To dismiss, dismissal, dismissed
To pay, payment, pay, paid
To gratify, gratitude, grateful
To enable, ability, enabled
To decide, decision, decisive, decision-maker
To manage, management, managerial
To market, marketing, market
To choose, choice, chosen
To create, creation, creator, created
To compete, competition, competitor, competitive
To persuade, persuasion, persuaded, persuasive
To publish, publishing, publisher, published
To analyze, analysis, analytical
To progress, progress, progressive
To receive, receipt, receiver, received
To insure, insurance, insured
To provide, provision, provider, provided
To think, thought, thoughtful, thoughtfulness
To evaluate, evaluation, evaluated
To cooperate, cooperation, cooperative
To consider, consideration, considerate
To plan, plan, planification, planned, planner
To comprehend, comprehension, comprehended, comprehensive
.....and so, you try it!

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Fun with correlative conjunctions!

Either..or

EITHER we walk up the steps to the fortress OR take the kiddie train

Neither...nor

We NEITHER walked up the steps to the fortress NOR took the kiddie train

Both..and

BOTH the steps AND the kiddie train will take you to the fortress

Not only...but also

NOT ONLY the stone steps BUT ALSO the kiddie train will take you to the fortress

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Extending a warm welcome to Papa Francisc and hoping that more of us will go beyond prayers to actually helping others and doing good deeds as often as we can. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE.

Elegant and exquisite
Intimate ambiance
Floating sparkling
Champagne dreams
Mesmerizing magical
Milestone reached.

Where do we go from here?
How do we find our way?
Are we here to stay?
Let love, faith and devotion lead the way

The ADVANTAGES vs the DISADVANTAGES of a situation?
a persuasive ADVERTISEMENT OR ADVERT! what s on the AGENDA for today?
We ll need AUTHORIZATION for the project
Parliament will sign a new BILL giving employee unions more rights
We need to boost our BRAND s image
We need to allocate funds from our BUDGET
Agents usually charge a COMMISSION for their services
Please send CONFIRMATION of the receipt
some COSTS are so high that we need to lower them
Good CUSTOMER service keeps clients coming back!
Pay your DEBT or else stay out of DEBT
A DECREASE in sales!
A trade DEFICIT
Take DELIVERY of something
An area of DISTRIBUTION
An exemplary EMPLOYEE
A prestigious EMPLOYER
Specialized EQUIPMENT
Valuable EXPERIENCE
An ESTIMATE Of the costs
Modern FACILITIES
Constructive FEEDBACK
Realistic GOAL
Sustainable GROWTH
Money back GUARANTEE
Home IMPROVEMENT projects
Price INCREASE
Automobile INDUSTRY
Generate INTEREST in something
Take stock or INVENTORY
An INVOICE for a transaction
Is there a MARKET for your product?
A special OFFER
Did you place the ORDER?
A company s OUTPUT based on demand
PAYMENT for services rendered
Paying a fine or PENALTY
A high quality PRODUCT
A large or small PROFIT
A well deserved PROMOTION
An large PURCHASE
Getting a REFUND of money
A sales REPORT
Poor RESULTS
A RISE in stock market prices
A company s RISK management
A low, average or high SALARY
To have a product IN STOCK
A steady SUPPLY of....
Tech SUPPORT team

Present participle adjectives..

Towering castle, Loving mother, caring teacher, amazing pictures, disturbing thoughts, motivating speech, inspiring leaders, encouraging results, stimulating classes, growing need, interesting presentation, fascinating artwork, frightening attacks, horrifying monster, terrifying situation,shocking news, fulfilling career, rewarding job, challenging times, exciting opportunity, satisfying relationship, limiting beliefs, unnerving noise, infuriating demands, and so much more.

You go, head, move, travel, return TO a place
You are AT a place
You arrive IN a big place like a city or country
You go ON holiday or vacation
You leave FOR a place
Meet someone AT a place
You live opposite a place or ACROSS FROM a place
Your neighbors live ABOVE you, BELOW you, NEXT TO you..to the right or to the left
Take something OFF a place like the table
Or put in ONTO a table or a place
Go UP the stairs or go DOWN the stairs
Someone in a queue is IN FRONT OF you or BEHIND you
You can walk ALONG a river, a forest.anything that is next to you , parallel to you
You can go THROUGH a tunnel, an underpass, a forest, a crowd of people, hardships
You can sit AMONG many in a classroom or at a meeting...or can be one AMONG many suffering from an illness or condition
You can choose BETWEEN 2 places to go, people to go with or things to do
You can live BY a store, a school, a park or any other place
You can lean AGAINST a wall, a tree, a bar, etc
You can head TOWARDS a place
You can FROM store TO store looking for something..can travel FROM place TO place
You can go or walk PAST a place or a person..
You can get INTO a club, an organization, a music band, social media group
You can get OUT OF work, a depression, a marriage, school, etc