Lesson 15

English course by Ex Prof. Maurizio Righi

5th March  2024

Check your Homework: Translate into italian

Bear with me, I have a head cold ( = sinusitis/cold )so it’s hard for me to concentrate on your surgery. 

Listen, I know you told me to finish all my work by 5pm, Timothy, but bear with me as I finish watching my FRIENDS marathon.  

Bear with me for just a second while I verify your credentials. 

You didn’t really see a bear while hiking through the pass, did you?That would be more than I could bear!  

Her grandfather built that house with his bare hands. 

The freshly whitewashed walls looked completely bare without any paintings, photographs, or shelves

 It’s really hard for me to bare my soul like this, but I’ve loved you since the moment I first saw you. 
Pazienza, ho la sinusite/raffreddore, quindi è difficile per me concentrarmi sul tuo intervento. 

Ascolta, so che mi hai detto di finire tutto il mio lavoro entro le 17:00, Timothy, ma abbi pazienza mentre finisco di guardare la maratona dei miei amici. 

Abbi pazienza con me solo per un secondo mentre verifico le tue credenziali.   

Non hai visto un orso mentre camminavi attraverso il passo, vero? 

Sarebbe più di quanto porei sopportare! 

Suo nonno costruì quella casa a mani nude. 

Le pareti appena imbiancate sembravano completamente nude senza alcun dipinto o scaffale. 

È davvero difficile per me scoprire la mia anima in questo modo, ma ti amo dal momento in cui ti ho visto per la prima volta.

READING:

Let’s take a look at the weather forecast now and I am delighted to say we have got a new member of our weather team tonight let me hand over (passiamo) to know:

Well it’s an unsettle picture  as we head towards the end of the week uh this afternoon It will be cold wet and windy across most of Scotland where under the influence of uh low pressure and this weather uh pushing northwards is bringing cloud and outbreakes  of rain the rain of course will be heaviest over the borders and around Edinburgh where it could lead to difficult conditions on the roads…uh in the west rain will be lighter and patchier (variegato) there will be maybe a few drier interludes over Dumpries  house (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumfries_House  and ASH ( frassino) aha there’ll be snow for the higher ground of the Highlands  and Aberdeenshire the potential for a few flares  (chiarori)over Balmoral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmoral_Castlewho the hell wrote this script uh and as  afternoon  goes on the best of the drier and brighter weather will of course be over the northern isles in the far North of the mainland so a little hazy ( caliginoso/nebbioso) sunshine for the castle of May https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Mey Caithness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caithness but a cold day everywhere with temperatures of just 8 celsius  and a brisk northeasterly wind Thank God it isn’t a Bank Holiday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_holiday 

Homework:

Fill in the Blanks listenig to:

Prince Charles presents the weather forecast – BBC Scotland (1.14)

NB: withouth watching, just listen!

Let’s take a look at the weather forecast now and I am delighted to say we have got a new member of our weather team tonight let me ——————————-to know:

 Well it’s an——————- picture  as we head towards the end of the week uh this afternoon It will be ————wet and ————–across most of Scotland where under the influence of uh ———-pressure and this weather uhpushing northwards is bringing ———- and outbreakes  of rain the rain of course will be heaviest over the —————-and around Edinburgh where it could lead to difficult conditions on the roads…uh in the west ————–will be lighter and patchier there will be maybe a few drier ————over Dumpries  house and ASH aha there’ll be ———for the higher ground of the Highlands  and Aberdeenshire the potential for a few ————-over Balmoral who the hell wrote this script uh and as  afternoon  goes on the best of the drier and —————weather will of course be over the northern isles in the far North of the mainland so a little —————–sunshine for the castle of May  Caithness but a ————day everywhere with temperatures of just 8 celsius  and a————— northeasterly wind thank God it isn’t a Bank Holiday   
No rest for bleary (=confuso/annebbiato)Chi dorme non piglia pesci

Who sleeps doesn’t catch fish

No rest for bleary

https://www.wordreference.com/enit/bleary  confuso, annebbiato 

https://www.wordreference.com/enit/blurry  annebbiato, offuscato

Bleary Meaning and Example Sentences (1.13)

Lesson 13

Lesson n°13 – 1st of March 2023

Real English® 12 Subtitled – What’s the weather like? CC Double (3.27)

The Beatles – Rain (3.08)

 If the rain comes
They run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead
If the rain comes
If the rain comesWhen the sun shines
They slip into the shade (when the sun shines down)
And sip their lemonade (when the sun shines down)
When the sun shines
When the sun shines Rain
I don’t mind
Shine
The weather’s fine I can show you
That when it starts to rain (when the rain comes down)
Everything’s the same (when the rain comes down)
I can show you
I can show you Rain
I don’t mind
Shine
The weather’s fine Can you hear me?
That when it rains and shines (when it rains and shines)
It’s just a state of mind (when it rains and shines)
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me? Sdeah reiht edih dna nur yeht
Semoc niar eht fi (rain)
Niar (rain)
Senihs nus (rain) 
Se arriva la pioggia loro corrono e nascondono le loro teste
Potrebbero anche essere morti,
Se arriva la pioggia, se arriva la pioggia 
Quando splende il sole, loro scivolano nell’ombra,
E bevono la loro limonata
Quando splende il sole, quando splende il sole 
Pioggia, non mi importa
Splendi,il tempo è bello   
Posso mostrarti che quando inizia a piovere,
Tutto è lo stessoPosso mostrartelo, posso mostrartelo
Pioggia,non mi importa
Splendi,il tempo è bello 
Puoi sentirmi che quando piove e splende,
È solo uno stato mentale
Puoi sentirmi, puoi sentirmi?   Sdeah reiht edih dna nur yeht
Semoc niar eht fi (rain)
Niar (rain)
Senihs nus (rain) 

Weather Forecast | English Vocabulary Lesson (6.09)

36 states on alert as winter storms move in l GMA(2.59)

havoc = caos, devastazione, rovina

The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun Lyrics (3.09)

Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s al right  Little darlin’, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darlin’, it feels like years since it’s been hereHere comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s al right  Little darlin’, the smile’s returning to their faces
Little darlin’, it seems like years since it’s been hereHere comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s alrightSun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Little darlin’, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darlin’, it seems like years since it’s been clearHere comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s al right Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun
It’s alrightIt’s alright
Ecco che arriva il sole
Ecco che arriva il sole, ecco che arriva il sole
E io dico “va tutto bene” 
Piccola cara, è stato un lungo e triste inverno
Piccola cara, sembra siano anni che non arrivava
Ecco che arriva il sole, ecco che arriva il sole e io dico “va tutto bene”


Piccola cara, il sorrisi tornano sui volti
Piccola cara, sembra siano anni che non arrivava Ecco che arriva il sole, ecco che arriva il sole e  io dico “va tutto bene”

Sole, sole, sole, ecco che arriva
Sole, sole, sole, ecco che arriva
Sole, sole, sole, ecco che arriva
Sole, sole, sole, ecco che arriva
Sole, sole, sole, ecco che arriva

Piccola cara, sembra che il ghiaccio si stia sciogliendo lentamente
Piccola cara, sembrano anni che non era così limpido
Ecco che arriva il sole, ecco che arriva il sole
E io dico “va tutto bene”
va tutto bene

The Seven Ages of Man (Powerful Life Poetry) (2.58)

  1. The helpless infant, (indifeso)
  2. the whining schoolboy, (piagnucoloso)
  3. the emotional lover, (emotivo)
  4. the devoted soldier, 
  5. the wise judge,
  6. the spectacled man(con gli occhiali)
  7. the clueless old man  

Clueless = incapace, non avere la più pallida idea

https://www.wordreference.com/enit/clueless

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: 
AS YOU LIKE IT
Act 2, Scene 7
All the world’s a stage
COME VI PIACE
Atto Secondo, Scena Settima
Il Mondo intero è un palcoscenico
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have  their exits and   theirentrances;   

And  one man in his time  plays many parts, 
His acts  being seven ages.
At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel 

And shining morning face,  creeping  like snail

Unwillingly to school.
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. 

Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. 
And then the justice,
In  fair  round belly with good  capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise sayings and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.  

The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d (creased) pantaloon (trousers),
With spectacles ( glasses) on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too widehttps://www.wordreference.com/enit/hose 

For  his  shrunk shank and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. 
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, 
sans eyes, 
sans taste, 
sans everything.
Il mondo intero è un palcoscenico,
E tutti gli uomini e le donne semplicemente attori:
Hanno le loro uscite di scena e le loro entrate in scena;

Ed  un uomo durante la sua esistenza recita molte parti,
La sua vita è composta da 7 atti.
All’inizio è un poppante,che geme e rigurgita tra le braccia della nutrice.
Quindi lo scolaretto piagnucoloso, con la sua cartella

Ed il viso illuminato a giorno, avanzando come una chiocciola

Malvolentieri verso la scuola.
Poi l’amante,
Che sospira come una fornace, con una dolorosa ballata
Dedicata al sopracciglio della sua bella. 

Dopo il soldato,
Fedele a strani giuramenti e con la barba di una fiera,geloso in onore, svelto e pronto alla rissa,
Che cerca un’effimera reputazione
Anche nella bocca del cannone. 
Quindi la giustizia,In una pancia bella paffuta rimpinzata (over fed/stuffed) di buon cappone,
Con occhi severi e taglio formale di barba,
Piena di saggi proverbi ed istanze moderne;
E così recita la sua parte. 

La sesta età scivola (si sposta)
Tra i pantaloni penduli/magri e sgualciti,
Con occhiali sul naso e la borsetta/marsupio a tracolla,
I suoi indumenti/brache giovanili, un mondo troppo grande 

Per il suo stinco dimagrito/restrinto
E la sua gran voce virile,che torna ad essere acuti infantili, flauti e fischietti nel suo suono. 
L’ultima scena di tutte,
Che termina questa strana storia piena di eventi,
E’ la seconda infanzia ed il semplice oblio,
Senza denti, 
Senza occhi, 
Senza gusto, 
Senza niente.

Morgan Freeman Reads Seven Ages of Man | Inspirational Poetry (2.16)

Jacques Monologue | All the world’s a stage | Act 2 Scene 7 | William Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it” (2.41)

The helpless infant, Bayley Scales of Infant Development - Definition, Purpose, Description age: 1-5 ?
the whining schoolboy,MaKayla & Bailey by makayla.jackson on emaze age: 6-12 ?
the emotional lover, What It Means to Have an Emotional Connection age: 12-19 ?
the devoted soldier, Soldier Army Related Icons Image Vector Stock Vector (Royalty Free)  563094322 | Shutterstock age: 20-30 ?
the wise judge,267.534 foto e immagini di Judge - Getty Images age: 30-59 ?
the spectacled manFoto Stock Senior bearded man shows muscles after practising bodybuilding  wears transparent glasses and basic jumper poses against blue studio  background. Look I am very strong and healthy. Perfect biceps | Adobe age:60-79 ?
the clueless old man  Grumpy Old Man Looks Over Spectacles Shocked And Disapproving Stock Photo -  Download Image Now - iStock age: 80-90……………… ? ? ?

RELATIVE PRONOUNS:

Relative Pronouns Song – Learn Grammar – Learning Upgrade App (1.42)

HOMEWORK:

Relative Pronouns, Defining and NON defining Relative Clauses (21.17)

Fill in the gaps with That/Which/Who /………

You have to understand if it’s a Defining or Not defining clause.

Students—————-study hard  get good marks.
My friend ,—————-lives in London, is a lawyer.
The bread—————-you made was delicious.
The church, —————-was built in 1650, is the biggest in the area.
This is the man—————-I told you about.
This is the man—————-wants to buy my car.

Solutions:

Students—-that/who————study hard  get good marks.                            DRC
My friend ,—-who————lives in London, is a lawyer.                 NDRC                                 
The bread——-that/which———you made was delicious.                        DRC
The church, —— which ———-was built in 1650, is the biggest in the area.  NDRC    
This is the man—– that/who ———–I told you about.             DRC
This is the man——– that/who ——–wants to buy my car.           DRC

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