Sab’s English FunLetter 12

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For FUN Students & Teachers of English!

“The Most Wonderful Words on the Web!”

(from FunEnglishLessons.com & RainbowEnglishSchool.org)

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Sab’s INTRODUCTION

Hello Fun English Fans, and Welcome to Autumn in Paris!

The leaves are falling from the plane trees and horse chestnuts and maples here and the pavements are turning into bright yellow rivers. And when it rains, they shine even brighter!

What is the weather like where you live at the moment?

DO YOU LIKE WORD GAMES?

Then you will LOVE the…

Sab’s Daily Fundle!

Check it out HERE.

It’s very easy and fast to play and will give you a little dose of English every day.

1) You have to find a word

2) You have 6 clues to help you

3) It’s not an English test – if you know the word in your language, translate it into English and try!

Anyone can play, look:

❤️ Great for parties and family get-togethers 🥳
🧡 Fantastic for the daily commute 🚂
💛 Wonderful for teachers 👩‍🏫
💚 Adults enjoy them 😄
💙 Kids love them 😍
💜 Students! 🤩

There are lots of POSITIVE EFFECTS of playing the Daily Fundle, including:

🟪 A moment of pleasant mental stimulation
🟦 Vocabulary-building & lexical-linking
🟩 A satisfyingly cool little ‘win’ daily
🟨 Enjoyable friendly competition
🟧 Strengthening social bonds
🟥 A lighter outlook on life
🐸 A new love of frogs!

Make the Sab’s Daily Fundle part of your English learning routine.

Note down new words and expressions in your English notebook.

Share your wins and ask questions about Fundle in our Fundle Facebook Group HERE!

𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜!

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🤔 Quick Quiz 🤓

I’m British, and for me the season between summer and winter is autumn. But people from the United States often use another word for autumn. Do you know what it is, and what it means?

a) down       b) fall
c) slip        d) tidy

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INTERESTING VOCABULARY

clue (n) – a piece of information that helps you to solve a problem or answer a question
get-together (n) – an informal meeting or party
daily commute (n) – your travel between home and work each day
mental stimulation (n) – something interesting that makes you think
social bond (n)– a link between people who share an interest
learning routine (n) – a regular activity to increase your knowledge

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IN OTHER NEWS…

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom died recently. She had been queen bee for 70 years. No other British monarch had reigned (been queen) for this long.

As soon as Queen Elizabeth died, her son, Prince Charles, immediately became King Charles III. Although he’s not exactly a prince charming, most people think he is ok.

The Queen’s funeral lasted for days and must have cost a king’s ransom, but the whole country – or the British media at least – took it very seriously indeed.

Other people who are not ‘royalists’ – people who support the monarchy – found the endless television reporting of the Queen’s death a royal pain! I won’t tell you if I am a royalist or not!

Yes, members of the British royal family can literally live like a king, but their lives are not always easy.

If a royal person acts like a drama queen in public, they will soon be criticised and laughed at on the front pages of the newspapers!

SEE BELOW for the definition of the expressions in purple! ⬇️

Now try this Quick Queen’s Jubilee Quiz

ENGLISH IDIOMS ~ Royal Idioms

1) queen bee ➜ the most important woman in a group or society

2) prince charming ➜ an attractive and kind man you believe will make your life perfect

3) king’s ransom ➜ a very large amount of money

4) royal pain ➜ someone or something that is very annoying or bad

5) live like a king ➜ to live a very comfortable life with much more money than you really need

6) drama queen ➜ someone who treats situations as far more serious than they really are

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WORDS in the NEWS

From BBC News: Latin America

The result was closer than polls had predicted making for a tense wait

Brazil’s Lula and Bolsonaro face run-off after surprisingly tight result

Brazil’s election is going into a second round in which left-winger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

With almost all the votes counted, Lula had won 48% against Bolsonaro’s 43% – a much closer result than opinion polls had suggested.

But Lula fell short of the more than 50% of valid votes needed to prevent a run-off.

Voters now have four weeks to decide which of the two should lead Brazil.

Winning outright in the first round was always going to be a tall order for any candidate – the last time it happened was 24 years ago.

But President Bolsonaro and Lula had given their supporters hope that they could achieve just that.

USEFUL DEFINITIONS

run-off (noun) – final contest to decide a winner when previous results were not clear

tight result (expression) – a result where the top candidates were very close

incumbent (noun) – the person who is currently in a particular position or job

opinion poll (noun) – many people are asked the same question to discover what most people thing about something

fall short (phrasal verb) – fail to reach an amount that was hoped for, causing disappointment

outright (adverb) – wholly and completely

tall order (expression) – a difficult or unreasonable demand

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PHOTO of the DAY

One of my passions is taking photos and writing about Paris every day.
Here is today’s photo:

EXERCISE

Write about this photo in English.

What can you see?
Where do you think it is?
What time or season is it?
What is the weather like?
Can you see any people or animals?
What are they doing?
How do they feel?

Do you like the photo? Why or why not?
Would you like to be in the photo?
Where would you prefer to be?

Listen to the end of the video above and hear me describe this photo in detail!

Post your texts in our Fun Facebook Group here, and comment on other people’s posts.

🤔 Quick Quiz – Answer 🤓

People from the USA often use another word for autumm:

b) fall

* This is probably because autumn is the season when the leaves fall from the trees.

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Sab in Paris 🧩

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