1- Explain this idiom: "Out of the blue" . Give us an example.
2- Explain the meaning of this proverb: "Appearances can be deceiving.". Find (on our blog) another proverb that has the same meaning (or close to it).
3- Explain the difference between "interesting" and "interested"/ "bored" and "boring". Give us examples.
4- When do we use the past perfect tense?
5- Answer this riddle: What are two things people never eat before breakfast?
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1. Out of the blue means something that happens suddenly and unexpectedly. Example: Did you know that John why John is in the jail?, No, it is really out of the blue,he seems to be a really nice guy.
2. The past perfect tense is used to indicate that one action occurred before another action in the past.
Example: When I woke up this morning, all my friends had gone to school.
3. Interested and bored is adjective from verb usually use after verb to be Example: I am interested in Learning English, I am so bored learning historical subject.
- Interesting and boring also adjective, but use in different ways. It is used with nouns, before the nouns. Example: The most interesting movie for me is the romance movie,
I stayed in my room all weekend, what's a boring weekend!
4. "Appearances can be deceiving." means something that look nice and beautiful hide with dangerous and we never know by judging outside look.
-Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.
5. Lunch and Super
I am so happy that I could finish it.
It makes me learn.
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1/ Out of the blue means suddenly, without being expected to happen. Example: While we were all laughing, the girl started crying out of the blue.
2/ "Appearences can be deceiving" means that something, or someone, which, or who, can look nice and like heaven from the outside may be dark and like hell from the inside. It tells us not to trust the way things look from the outside till we are sure of the hidden angles. A proverb which is close in meaning to this one is "we can't tell a book by its cover." Or in another version "do not judge a book by its cover."
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3.1/ Something "interesting" is something of great interest and value and, so, if it interests me, I will become "interested" in it. Example: Computer science is an "interesting" field and I am "interested" in learning it.
3.2/ Something "boring" is something of no interest and, so, if it bores me, I will become "bored" because of it. Example: Football is a "boring" game and I get "bored" everytime I watch it on the television.
4/ The past perfect is used to indicate an action which "had happened" and, generally, to relate it to a second action which "happened" in the past. The past perfet ranks before the simple past on a time scale.
5/ Two things people never eat before breakfast are lunch and dinner.
Hi all,
Here are the answers:
1. In a way that was not expected. e.g. "her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue"
2. http://dzspeakenglish.blogspot.com/2010/05/proverb-dont-judge-book-by-its-cover.html
3. http://dzspeakenglish.blogspot.com/2010/04/tip-interested-or-interesting.html
4. http://dzspeakenglish.blogspot.com/2010/04/tip-past-perfect.html
5. Lunch and Super/ Lunch and dinner.
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