Tuesday, February 19, 2013

ni2 19-2-13


Homework: vocabulary p. 58

Tasting menú
Unpaved roads
stuffed [not before noun]
completely full, so that you cannot eat any more:
No, no dessert, I'm stuffed.
greedily adverb:
He grabbed the bottle and drank greedily.
gulp
1 also gulp down [transitive] to swallow large quantities of food or drink quickly [= bolt]:
She gulped down her breakfast and ran for the bus.
Eat hungrily
Eat like a horse
2
 do something ↔ up
to repair an old building or car, or to improve its appearance:
They did up an old cottage in the Scottish Highlands.
3
 do something ↔ up
to decorate something in a particular way:
The apartment was done up in Viennese style.
zip something shut/open
Olsen zipped the bag shut.
He zipped open the case (=unfastened it).
un‧but‧ton [transitive]
to undo the buttons on a piece of clothing:
He took off his sweater and unbuttoned his shirt.
button [intransitive and transitive]
1 also button up to fasten clothes with buttons or to be fastened with buttons:
Sam, make sure Nina buttons up her jacket.
Threaten to do sth.
Reasons for going
o‧ver‧pow‧er‧ing
1 very strong [↪ intense]:
an overpowering smell of rotten flesh

a twenty-minute walk
the walk will give us an appetite.
I’ll stick with my one.

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