Note. My sharing this doesn't mean I favour British English. I think all accents are beautiful.
Questions:
- Why might we think she is drunk?
- What does affable mean?
- Can you explain the expression: 'do you need a hand?'?
- The tree is laden with apples. What does laden mean?
- The expression 'many happy returns' is outdated. What does the highlighted word mean?
- Can you explain 'you've got me on the edge of my seat?'
- What is a jacket potato?
-We might think she's drunk because her lovely and joyful way of conducting the conversation, that's related with her pregnancy which makes her feel phisically and emotionally different.
ReplyDelete- People who are easier to talk to or more friendly seems to me affable.
- Asking to someone if they need a hand, means that we are offering them our help to do something.
- Laden means full. Metaphorically, when you look at a 'tree laden of apples' you feel happier, joyful, looking the life from a different perspective, a positive one.
- Outdated means oldfashioned or antiquated, non-properly used currently.
- 'you've got me on the edge of my seat' means that you get me excited and giving all my attention to what is happenning.
- It's a backed potato with the skin on and it usually has fillings above or inside.
Excuse me, the potato has fillings, on, not above.
ReplyDeleteExactly
DeleteJust a few comments on your answers above, Carlos:
ReplyDelete- because of her lovely... Yes, she says her pregnancy makes her slow and woozy (dizzy).
- seem affable (no -s because we are talking about people which is plural)
- asking someone (no to)
- looking at life
- old-fashioned is usually written with a hyphen and it's not used currently
- a baked potato
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