NEW LINKS!!! (Weekly meetings. Same link for every meeting)
bottom left corner / mike icon!! tick back on
I can see you but not hear you
sorry for the delay
I didn't remember I have to admit everybody now!!!!
new this week!!
for security purposes!
stockpiling
a wake-up call
threat
rudimentary cumbersome / bulky / subtle
the prophets of Doom and Gloom
doomers and gloomers
scaremongers
proven
wickerwork
pottery
embroidery
every cloud has a silver lining
guinea pig
Roundup
farming
the soil it's drained of the natural components / farmers squeeze all its components out of the
invasive
new non-invasive surgery thanks to state-of-the-art (mahcines) equipment/cutting-edge (techniques/machines/ more general) equipment
(arts) avant-garde (UPGRADING modern)
people / money
out-of-budget (expensive)
low-purchasing power (poor/people)
branded as
good value for money
down the foodchain
protect... from plagues
has been tampered with (manipulated)
to engineer / orchestrate / concoct /
crop-dependent
weather-resistant / plague-resistant (-proof)/pesticide-resistant
ORIGAMI (A COMPLEX COMPOUND)
a long-lived cud-bearing X
mine is a read-the-newspaper-at-the-table husband
-based /-centred/-proof/
What Spain needs, is a corruption-proof government
foresee / foresight
foresight / insight / hindsight (with the benefit of hindsight)
scientifically-proven
be held responsible for
well-informed (well-)
the rate of people
the rate of unemployment (unemployed people)
plummeted (gone down)
didn't use to be aware of
blame so for
hold so responsible for
tobacco co. are not to blame for
a fleet of (a group of machines) (war,military,etc) (a fleet of taxis on strike)
enlightening eye-opening
face (courage)
grammar (emphasis-cleft/adverbs (no manner)degrees of probability
VOCABULARY
abstract n
complex words (prefix sufix
metaphors
origami
walk fast "stride" / thoughtfully /alarmingly