nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was also nominated for eight BAFTs (British Acedemy of Film and Television Arts) and four Golden Globes. Chocolat begins with arrival of Vianne Rocher in a tiny French village. She is a single mother with a young daughter. In village was the beginning of fasting and people weren’t eating so much. Vianne moves with her daughter into a disused bakery facing the church, where a man - Francis Reynaud - watches her arrival with disapproval and is suspicious. When he realizes that Vianne wants to open a chocolate shop in place of the old bakery, influencing the church-goers, Reynaud’s disapproval increases more. As it becomes clear that villagers are being influenced by Vianne, he quickly sees her as danger. Under Vianne’s control an old woman starts a new life, a wife finds courage to leave her mean husband, children rebel against authority and Reynaud’s community is danger of falling apart. Soon is Easter and Vianne
7. form of aviation- lennuviis 8. to be tempted- ahvatlema 9. on board- pardal 10. turn up- kohale ilmuma 12. inflate the balloon- õhupalli õhuga täitma 13. fancy owning- meeldib omada 14. tow- vedama 15. pin it down- vastu maad suruma 16. landowner´s permission- maaomaniku luba 17. quarterly magazine- neli korda aastas ilmuv ajakiri 18. ever-growing- üha kasvav 19. spare an hour- tundi loovutama 20. slight unease- kerge ebamugavustunne 21. disapproval- pahaks panema 22. frown- kulmu kortsutama 23. drag a leg behind- jalga järel lohistama 24. currently- praegusel ajal 25. draw up- visandama 26. purchase of inappropriate skates- ebasobilike uiskude uisk 27. ticking off- kiusama 28. break a fall- kukkumist vältima 29. tumbling- kukkuma veerema 30. keep smb balanced- kedagi tasakaalus hoidma 31. reduce the chances- võimalusi vähendama 32. obey- kuuletuma 33. regard as- pöörduma kui 34. widely cater- laialdaselt varustama 35
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to express my disapproval of the Westwale Councils decision to sell the land of the Longheath Park. In my opinion, this is a terrible idea which will have many disadvantages for our town. Firstly, if the park is sold to the property developer, he will built an estate of 50 houses on the land. As a result, there will be no open spaces left. Therefore, children will not have a chance to play freely, and people will have nowhere to walk their dogs or ride their bikes. Secondly, there will be less green areas in town. Obviously, this will be very unhealthy, as people need fresh air and natural surroundings for good health. What is more, the town will be crowded and built up. Consequently, there will be more traffic, pollution, and the town will no longer be a nice place to live. To sum up, I think it is a very bad idea. I hope the local council will take my points into consideration. Yours faithfully, Eveli...
before. I was doing my shopping at your department store yesterday after I came from work and I got into a rude conversation with your employee after I did not remember my credit card pin-code and tried to pay in cash after that. But except a pleasant smile, I got insulted and told that I should know if I do have money on my credit card or not. Concerning how pleasant the employees at your shop usually are I was very surprised by this acting. That caused me deep disapproval about your shop. The name of employee who insulted me was Michael. I expect that you will resolve my problem immediately, not just for me, but for all the people who might get insulted by your shop assistant. I hope this matter will be given immediate attention and I am looking forward for information about this inconvenience that I was a part of. Yours faithfully, Tõnu Tõukeratas
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing about the recent article in Tuesday’s edition of the Westvale Herald to express my disapproval of the Westvale Council’s decision to sell Longheath Park to a property developer. In my opinion, this is a really bad idea. Firstly, if the park is sold there will be no open spaces left. Therefore, children will not be able to play freely, and people will have nowhere to walk their dogs, ride their bicycles and so forth. What is more, there will be very few green areas in town. Obviously, this is very
Unit 10: vocabulary 1. small talk (n) talk about unimportant things to pass time 2. chat show (n) talk show 3. to get through to sb (v) reach 4. to get your point across (v) to make someone understand 5. to speak up (v) to speak louder 6. to speak out about sth (v) to make a statement 7. to talk down to sb to talk to someone like you're better than they are 8. to pick up sth (v) start a topic 9. to pass on a message (v) - 10. to bring up a point - 11. to commute (v) to travel regularly over some distance 12. commuter (n) person who travels back and forth between something 13. virtuous (adj) naturally good at something, morally excellent 14. exasperated (adj) extremely annoyed 15. dismayed (adj) without courage 16. deed (n) something that is done 17. to boast about sth (v) to brag about sth 18. to exaggerate about sth (v) to magnify beyond the limits of...
sometimes played with outside, but they were never allowed to come to the house. Tom was still a little child who did not understand that much in this world. When their mother died Julie took the responsibility, she believed that she needed to be the new mother in all the possible ways and Tom, pretending to be a little baby, helped her to play her role. Tom was a living doll for the girls and dressing him up as a girl was just a fun game while Tom himself did not understand it’s disapproval in society. Jack was envious of Julie’s attention to Tom. Tom had to pretend to be in infancy to cope with loss of his mother. Although he was still a boy who sometimes peed in his bed, playing a baby helped him to forget responsibilities and problems, and find again motherly love in Julie. Tom soon forgot his real mother as something that was natural but he can not be blamed for that because it seems like he had not had any other choice.
best course of action would be .../ I would like to offer one or two suggestions concerning .... /You should/ ought to ... Closing remarks: I hope I have been of some assistance to you/Please inform me if I can be of any further assistanceI/ I hope I have answered some of your questions/ Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further information LETTER TO AUTHORITIES/EDITOR Opening remarks: I am writing to draw your attention to .../ express my approval/disapproval/support for / protest about..., etc. In my view, it seems to me that .../I tend to think that..../ I am totally opposed to/ in favour of/ It is my firm belief that.../ I am convinced that ... Closing remarks: I hope you will give this matter your urgent/further consideration/ attention.
....... against TV and given their set away. Their children now do something truly educational. They read books. 1) A dimming B dumping C dumbing D duncing 2) A medium B norm C average D par 3) A outdistance B outdo C outreach D outnumbe 4) A protest B complaint C objection D disapproval 5) A fill B serve C make D form 6) A position B place C stand D stage 4. Complete each sentence, using one of the words from the box. fiction illiterate literature outline shorthand gist illegible manuscript prose unprintable a) The first chapter is based on fact, but the rest of the book is complete .
man to antagonize people. vastuollu sattuma, vastu 20.disheartened adj - [dis'h:t()n] disappointed, so that seisma you lose hope and the determination to continue doing 4. antiquated adj - ['æntikweitid] old-fashioned and not something: If young children don't see quick results, suitable for modern needs or conditions - used to show they grow disheartened. disapproval [= outdated]: antiquated laws; ajast ja 21.disillusioned (by/with) adj - [,disi'lu:()nd] arust, iganenud disappointed because you have lost your belief that 5. awareness n - ['wens] knowledge or understanding someone is good, or that an idea is right: As she grew of a particular subject or situation: Health officials have older, Laura became increasingly disillusioned with
than is either Test 1 or Test 2 alone. When you take the TOEFL at an official administration, if your score on Section 3 is different from your Average Scaled Score on these TOEFL Vocabulary Practice Tests, the difference is probably due to your performance on the reading comprehension items in this section. Essential Words for the TOEFL LESSON 1 abroad abrupt acceptable acclaim actually adverse advice attractive autonomous disapproval disruptive haphazardly ideal persistent wide abroad adv. to or in another country Syn. overseas, internationally Louis Armstrong often traveled abroad. Living abroad can be an educational experience. abrupt adj. quick, without warning adv. abruptly Syn. sudden n. abruptness There was an abrupt change in the weather. After the incident everyone left abruptly.
operation of typography in the West. The penetration of the money economy, wrote G. B. Sansom (in Japan, Cresset Press, London, 1931) "caused a slow but irresistible revolution, culminating in the breakdown of feudal government and the resumption of intercourse with foreign countries after more than two hundred years of seclusion." Money has reorganized the sense life of peoples just because it is an extension of our sense lives. This change does not depend upon approval or disapproval of those living in the society. Arnold Toynbee made one approach to the transforming power of media in his concept of "etherialization," which he holds to be the principle of progressive simplification and efficiency in any organization or technology. Typically, he is ignoring the effect of the challenge of these forms upon the response of our senses. He imagines that it is the response of our opinions that is relevant to the effect of media and technology in society, a "point of
They blamed three women, Tituba, the slave, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. Significantly all three women had low status. If the girls had accused respected members of the community they might not have been believed. Tituba was looked down 5 upon because she was only a slave. Sarah Good was poor and sometimes begged for food. Sarah Osborne had not been to church for a year. That earned her disapproval from many of her neighbours. On 29 February 1692 the three were arrested. On 1 March Judge John Hathorne and Judge Jonathan Corwin examined them. Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne denied the charges but Tituba confessed. Perhaps she felt that if she denied the charge she would not be believed, after all she was only a slave. She may also have hoped that if she confessed she would be spared. If so she was correct. Tituba was imprisoned for a while but she was not executed
happy – unhappy, possible – impossible etc Logical polarity – two negatives make a positive. True/False. It’s false that it’s false – it’s true Quantity polarity – one of the terms denotes more of something – long/short, old/young Evaluative polarity – positive term expresses approval and negative disapproval good/bad, polite/rude Complementary antonyms – either or o Closed/open, dead/alive, true/false, pregnant/not pregnant o Non-gradable complementary antonyms True/false, alive/dead 15 o Gradable complementary antonyms have a privative member denoting the absence/presence of something
house and upper house). Bills passed by the houses are sent to the sovereign, or governor- general, lieutenant-governor, or governor as her representative, for Royal Assent, which, once granted, makes the bill into law; these primary acts of legislation are known as acts of parliament. An act may also provide for secondary legislation, which can be made by the Crown, subject to the simple approval, or the lack of disapproval, of parliament. To reign Reign is a word that has traditionally been used to refer to time or period during which a king or emperor occupied the throne. When used as time period or duration, reign becomes a noun. However, it is also used as a verb to express domination or control or even influence of one or the other kind as in violence reigns, poverty reigns, etc. History books make good use of reign to refer to the time periods during which a particular king or queen remained
The first thing she does, though, is tell the boy Seriozha that his mother is dead. She does everything she can to hurt Anna and make Karenin fall in love with herself. It seems everyone is trying to crush Anna. Betsy tells Vronsky that he shouldn't be seen with her while in Petersburg. Then, Betsy goes to Anna, under the veil of friendship, telling her that while she doesn't mind Anna and Vronsky's relationship others do. News of the general disapproval of her relationship with Vronsky makes Anna extremely agitated. She sneaks into her old home to see her son, who is shocked since he has been told she is dead. Anna realizes she loves Seriozha overwhelmingly, with a love she could never feel for her daughter. Anna will come to resent her daughter for denying her Seriozha. Even worse is Anna's decision not to obey Vronsky's request that the two keep a low profile. She tells him she is going to the opera. He is infuriated
After 1807, abolitionist writers such as William Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, and Thomas DeQuincey increasingly directed their attention toward ending slavery altogether, at home and abroad, delivering speeches, publishing slaves' narratives, and writing poetry and prose exposing the brutality and inhumanity of slavery. As in the Abolition Society's parliamentary petition drives of the 1780s and 1790s, women abolitionist writers played a major role in voicing public disapproval of slavery. English abolitionism gained its greatest victory in 1833 when slavery was abolished throughout the British empire.The period between 1787 and 1833 represented the zenith of English abolitionist literature, but even after 1833 English authors continued to denounce the existence of slavery in the New World, targeting especially the United States. Writers such as Frances Trollope, Walter Savage Landor, and Charles Dickens
6 widely time. 5 Personality-wise, I take after my 7 resolutely / staunchly mum. 8 strictly 5 unaffected inappropriate 9 gravely immobile disapproval 4 1 never used to irresponsible illogical 2 always used to 2 A France B USA C USA 6 1 self-employed 4 supersensitive 3 used to 3 1 A 2 C 3 C 4 A 5 B 2 undercooked 5 co-starred 4 would help / helped 6 C 7 B 8 A 9 C 10 A 3 anticlockwise 6 misheard 5 didn't use to 11 A 12 B
mental part of the way you view yourself in relation to your world. Thereafter, no matter what happens to you, you would hold to this belief. It would become your reality. If you were raised by parents who did not know how powerful their words and behaviors could be in shaping your personality, they could very easily have used destructive criticism, disapproval, and physical or emotional punishment to discipline or control you. When a child is continually criticized at an early age, he soon con- cludes that there is something wrong with him. He doesn’t under- stand why it is that he is being criticized or punished, but he assumes that his parents know the truth about him, and that he de- serves it. He begins to feel that he is not valuable or lovable. He is
source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside. It is not the formless attention which is Presence that the ego seeks, but attention in some form, such as recognition, praise, admiration, or just to be noticed in some way, to have its existence acknowledged. A shy person who is afraid of the attention of others is not free of ego, but has an ambivalent ego that both wants and fears attention from others. The fear is that the attention may take the form of disapproval or criticism, that is to say, something that diminishes the sense of self rather than enhances it. So the shy person's fear of attention is greater than his or her need of attention. Shyness often goes with a self-concept that is predominantly negative, the belief of being inadequate. Any conceptual sense of self – seeing myself as this or that - is ego, whether predominantly positive (I am the greatest) or negative (I am no good). Behind every positive
released from the obligation of his oath; and so he was, according to the letter of it, but not according to the spirit. In the matter of a promise one must always consider the meaning and not the mere words. Our forefathers have given us another striking example of justice toward an enemy: when a deserter from Pyrrhus promised the Senate to administer poison to the king and thus work his death, the Senate and Gaius Fabricius delivered the deserter up to Pyrrhus. Thus they stamped with their disapproval the treacherous murder even of an enemy who was at once powerful, unprovoked, aggressive, and successful. With this I will close my discussion of the duties connected with war. But let us remember that we must have regard for justice even towards the humblest. Now the humblest station and the poorest fortune are those of slaves; and they give us no bad rule who bid us treat our slaves as we should our employees: they must be required to work; they must be given their dues
" He turned to the closest EMT for a second opinion. I tuned him out to consider the jumble of inexplicable images churning chaotically in my head. When they'd lifted me away from the car, I had seen the deep dent in the tan car's bumper -- a very distinct dent that fit the contours of Edward's shoulders... as if he had braced himself against the car with enough force to damage the metal frame... And then there was his family, looking on from the distance, with expressions that ranged from disapproval to fury but held no hint of concern for their brother's safety. I tried to think of a logical solution that could explain what I had just seen -- a solution that excluded the assumption that I was insane. Naturally, the ambulance got a police escort to the county hospital. I felt ridiculous the whole time they were unloading me. What made it worse was that Edward simply glided through the hospital doors under his own power. I ground my teeth together.
their pedigree back to an imported cat brought into this country in 1896, this may also account for those on the continent. Who knows, perhaps another from the litter was taken over there and that those now being shown are direct descendants." In that book, Wilson wrote in disapproving tones of cross-breeding of Siamese. Luckily the experiments in breeding Siamese with other breeds (not species!) did continue in spite of early disapproval, leading to a wide variety of attractive Oriental and Foreign varieties. "From America we have heard of the Black Siamese with orange eyes but to my knowledge no specimen has ever been seen in this country. Then there have been long haired specimens, described as Burmese, they have the same colouring as the seal point, and long fur, which although in no way comparable with the Persian yet is definitely more long than short.
rule for reciprocation allows one individual to give something to another with confidence that it is not being lost. This sense of future obligation within the rule makes possible the development of various kinds of continuing relation- ships, transactions, and exchanges that are beneficial to the society. Conse- quently, all members of the society are trained from childhood to abide by the rule or suffer serious social disapproval. • The decision to comply with another's request is frequently influenced by the reciprocity rule. One favorite and profitable tactic of certain compliance pro- fessionals is to give something before asking for a return favor. The ex- ploitability of this tactic is due to three characteristics of the rule for reciprocation. First, the rule is extremely powerful, often overwhelming the in- fluence of other factors that normally determine compliance with a request.
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