And again, Hello, dear friends! Every day, meeting with neighbors, household members, work colleagues, classmates, and sometimes just with strangers, we start conversations about nothing - the weather, health, politics, etc. These are the so-called “pro-life” conversations. Naturally, while in the USA, you will communicate with local residents, and have non-binding conversations with them about life, health, and the weather. Conversations about health and life experience on English
Therefore, the goal of our lesson today is to learn to understand conversations in English about health conditions and life experiences. You will learn the most popular idioms that Americans use in their everyday conversations about health and life. We’ll start right away by studying examples of using these conversations in real life. English speech through reading a fragment of a conversation in English and Russian.
Today M. Lerner is at the wedding of a young guy. But the object of the radio journalist’s attention was not the young couple, but the old man, the great-grandfather of the groom. The reporter asks a veteran of the First and Second World Wars how he managed to live such a long and interesting life and stay healthy:
Martin: What did you look like? -What were you like before? (literally: what were you like?)
Jack: Just like I do now. - The same as now
Mrs. Willis:He was tall of course. He had dark brown hair then. He was really quite handsome. - He was tall, of course. He had dark brown hair then. He was really quite handsome.
Jack: I was a lot like Troy. Do you know Troy? “I was a little like Troy.” Do you know Troy?
Martin: We've met. - We met (we saw each other, we had a chance to see each other)
Jack:I imagine we looked alike, but I was old when Troy was born. My son looked like that too. “I imagine we look the same, but I was already old when Troy was born.” My son was also like him.
Before you start listening to conversations and other vocabulary about life and health, repeat the words and expressions from the article. After repeating one of the previous lessons, activating thought processes, start listening to the audio lesson. All vocabulary is voiced by a professional speaker, and a Russian-speaking speaker will help you navigate the process of learning new material: /wp-content/uploads/2014/11/russian_english_072.mp3
Because English vocabulary voiced by a professional speaker, then you can safely use his speech and pronunciation as a sample. Use the audio recording to practice American fluency and pronunciation.
Health and life in English
Now let's study lexemes from the dialogue, as well as other words and phrases with which you can start a conversation or continue a conversation about life or health in English. Study the table carefully and try to remember all the new vocabulary and repeat the words that you already know.
| Conversations about health and life experiences | |
| Phrases | |
| Then he pays for it | He pays for it later |
| He was the center of attention | He was the center of attention |
| Nouns | |
| athlete | athlete |
| bride | bride |
| congratulations | congratulations |
| grandfather | grandfather |
| Grandfather (unofficial) | grandpa (informal) |
| groom | groom |
| guest | guest |
| hitter, hitter (in baseball) | hitter |
| pitcher (in baseball) | pitcher |
| reception of guests | reception |
| wedding | wedding |
| First World War | World War I |
| World War II | World War II |
| Adjectives | |
| complex, confusing | confusing |
| happy, lucky | lucky |
| popular | popular |
| Adverbs | |
| indoors, in the house | indoors |
| outdoors | outdoors |
| Verbs | |
| revive | to revive |
| to exercise, to train | to exercise |
| insist | to insist |
| interrupt, disturb | to interrupt |
Copy or save the table and review it regularly free time. Also, sometimes you listen again to audio lessons of spoken English. Article rating:
A set of life events within the biography of one person. A person’s vitality is determined by the abundance of experiences and the depth of situations experienced. Life experience is the social biography of an individual, the individual history of a person on Earth... Fundamentals of spiritual culture ( encyclopedic dictionary teacher)
life experience- ▲ knowledge practice experience knowledge of practice; knowledge and skills acquired [gained] by practice, the result of practice; empirical knowledge of reality; knowledge of situations in kl. areas of activity (extract #. acquire #. gain experience.… …
gain life experience- ▲ gain (life) experience to know. get to know. find out [feel] . experience. test it on your own. taste. taste. drink. take a sip. smell. try. that's enough. see. see again. see you enough apparently [see] types (colloquial) ... Ideographic Dictionary Russian language
having gained extensive life experience- adj., number of synonyms: 2 became wise (8) wise (45) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Dictionary of synonyms
EXPERIENCE- EXPERIENCE, experience, husband. 1. plural rare. A set of practically acquired knowledge, skills and abilities. “In order to lead correctly, it is necessary to supplement the experience of leaders with the experience of the party masses, the bulk of the working class, the experience of the working people, the experience... ... Dictionary Ushakova
VITAL- VITAL, vital, vital; vital, vital, vital (book). 1. adj. to life in 2 and 5 figures. Life departures. Life needs. Life process. Life wisdom. Life experience. || necessary to maintain life... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
vital- adj., used often Morphology: vital, vital, vital, vital; more vital; adv. vital 1. Your life experience is what you have experienced, learned, tried in your life, the knowledge and skills that you have accumulated in life. My life experience... ... Dmitriev's Explanatory Dictionary
LIFE WORLD- a term introduced by the founder of phenomenology, Husserl, who tried to rethink the existing attitude to the world and open the sphere of the so-called. assistant professor experience. F.m. the world of pre-scientific life with its chaos of disordered contemplations, with its primary... ... Encyclopedia of Cultural Studies
LIFE WORLD- (German Lebenswelt) one of the main concepts of the phenomenology of the late E. Husserl, introduced by him in the work “The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology”. F.m. correlates of human experience and activity in everyday life. F.m. should... ... Philosophical Encyclopedia
“EXPERIENCE AND NATURE”- “EXPERIENCE AND NATURE” (Experience and Nature. Chi., 1925) book by J. Dewey. A significant part of it consists of criticism of idealism, speculative metaphysics, dualism; the task is to substantiate empiricism within the framework of naturalistic philosophy (its own... ... Philosophical Encyclopedia
"EXPERIENCE AND NATURE"- (Experience and Nature. Chi., 1925) – book by J. Dewey. A significant part of it is a critique of idealism, speculative metaphysics, dualism; the task is to substantiate empiricism within the framework of naturalistic philosophy (Dewey calls his position... ... Philosophical Encyclopedia
Books
- Life cycle and efficiency of machines, M. G. Karpunin, Ya. G. Lyubinetsky, B. I. Maydanchik. The forms and methods of efficient use of resources in the creation, production and operation of machines are considered. The structure and content of resource expenditures by stages and phases have been studied... Buy for 220 rubles
- Despondency, patience, humility. Holy Scripture and Church Experience. "Despondency, patience, humility. Holy Scripture and church experience". This book contains quotes from Holy Scripture and the sayings of the holy fathers about how not to succumb to the “great night”...
A set of life events within the biography of one person. A person’s vitality is determined by the abundance of experiences and the depth of situations experienced. Life experience is the social biography of an individual, the individual history of a person on Earth... Fundamentals of spiritual culture (teacher's encyclopedic dictionary)
life experience- ▲ knowledge practice experience knowledge of practice; knowledge and skills acquired [gained] by practice, the result of practice; empirical knowledge of reality; knowledge of situations in kl. areas of activity (extract #. acquire #. gain experience.… …
gain life experience- ▲ gain (life) experience to know. get to know. find out [feel] . experience. test it on your own. taste. taste. drink. take a sip. smell. try. that's enough. see. see again. see you enough apparently [see] types (colloquial) ... Ideographic Dictionary of the Russian Language
having gained extensive life experience- adj., number of synonyms: 2 became wise (8) wise (45) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Dictionary of synonyms
EXPERIENCE- EXPERIENCE, experience, husband. 1. plural rare. A set of practically acquired knowledge, skills and abilities. “In order to lead correctly, it is necessary to supplement the experience of leaders with the experience of the party masses, the bulk of the working class, the experience of the working people, the experience... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
VITAL- VITAL, vital, vital; vital, vital, vital (book). 1. adj. to life in 2 and 5 figures. Life departures. Life needs. Life process. Life wisdom. Life experience. || necessary to maintain life... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
vital- adj., used often Morphology: vital, vital, vital, vital; more vital; adv. vital 1. Your life experience is what you have experienced, learned, tried in your life, the knowledge and skills that you have accumulated in life. My life experience... ... Dmitriev's Explanatory Dictionary
LIFE WORLD- a term introduced by the founder of phenomenology, Husserl, who tried to rethink the existing attitude to the world and open the sphere of the so-called. assistant professor experience. F.m. the world of pre-scientific life with its chaos of disordered contemplations, with its primary... ... Encyclopedia of Cultural Studies
LIFE WORLD- (German Lebenswelt) one of the main concepts of the phenomenology of the late E. Husserl, introduced by him in the work “The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology”. F.m. correlates of a person's experiences and activities in everyday life. F.m. should... ... Philosophical Encyclopedia
“EXPERIENCE AND NATURE”- “EXPERIENCE AND NATURE” (Experience and Nature. Chi., 1925) book by J. Dewey. A significant part of it consists of criticism of idealism, speculative metaphysics, dualism; the task is to substantiate empiricism within the framework of naturalistic philosophy (its own... ... Philosophical Encyclopedia
"EXPERIENCE AND NATURE"- (Experience and Nature. Chi., 1925) – book by J. Dewey. A significant part of it is a critique of idealism, speculative metaphysics, dualism; the task is to substantiate empiricism within the framework of naturalistic philosophy (Dewey calls his position... ... Philosophical Encyclopedia
Books
- Life cycle and efficiency of machines, M. G. Karpunin, Ya. G. Lyubinetsky, B. I. Maydanchik. The forms and methods of efficient use of resources in the creation, production and operation of machines are considered. The structure and content of resource expenditures by stages and phases have been studied... Buy for 220 rubles
- Despondency, patience, humility. Holy Scripture and Church Experience. "Despondency, patience, humility. Holy Scripture and church experience". This book contains quotes from the Holy Scriptures and sayings of the holy fathers about how not to succumb to the “great night”...
