ANGOLKA

A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.(anonymous)

I have found at my age, going bra-less pulls all the wrinkles out of my face.(anonymous)

Phrasal verbs of the week: fill (something) up (with something)

Definition: to make something full.

E.g.1: He drove to the petrol station and asked the attendant to fill the tank up. („the tank“ is the place where petrol is stored in a car)

E.g.2: She filled up the kettle with water and made everyone a cup of tea.

This phrasal verb can be separated. (E.g. 1)

open up

Definition: to begin to reveal what you really think or feel about something or someone.(This phrasal Verb has more than one meaning)

E.g.1: I knew she was unhappy but she wouldn’t tell me about it. However, after we had drunk a few glasses of wine she opened up and told me why she was feeling depressed.

E.g.2: Don’t be so defensive; if you can’t open up to your best friend, who can you open up to? This phrasal verb cannot be separated.

Tests of the week

a.,The unruly _______ was broken up by the police.

1. collection

2. mob

3. congregation

4. Group

b., Prince Andrew was found dead in his palace this morning. The police have _______ any suggestion of foul play.

1. neglected

2. overlooked

3. omitted

4. discounted

Jokes of the week

The wealthy wife of a very successful businessman went to the portrait artist for her first sitting. The portrait was a gift for her husband. She explained to the artist what she wanted: „You should paint me like I am. These little wrinkles, you put them on your canvas. The lines under my eyes, the flab on my arms, the turn in my nose, and the mole on my cheek, they all stay... BUT on my hands you put lots of rings with big diamonds and emeralds and bright jewels. Around my neck you put chains of gold and diamonds. Do you understand?“ The artist looked at her in earnest and asked why she should want such detail of real life in her physical appearance, but adorn herself with the phony jewelry. She replied: „I am not well. When I die my husband will re-marry...and I want his new wife to go crazy looking for the jewels.“

An English doctor said „Medicine in my country is so advanced, we can take a kidney out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks“. A German doctor said „That’s nothing! In Germany, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks“. A Russian doctor said, „In my country medicine is so advanced, we can take half a heart from one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks“. The New York State doctor, not to be outdone, said „Hah! We are about to take a half a brain out of Arkansas, put her in the Senate, and half the state will be looking for work the next day!“

Correct answers to the TEST questions: a.) mob, b., discounted

(Králik Róbert)