Welcome back! I hope you all had a good time last week, whatever you did. I went to Zakopane, Kel and Linda went to Rome, David went to Prague, and Tanya went to Mikołajki with Caroline. As for the rest of us, well, you will have to ask them what they did! There aren’t any clubs or lectures this week so just sit back and enjoy your usual dose of English, or to put it in other words, enjoy your lessons :)


Word of the day:
Trip

A journey or tour (wycieczka). In English we say, for example, I went on a trip to Zakopane, or I took a trip to Zakopane.

Trip, as a verb, means potykać się in Polish. Stumble is a synonym. For example, she tripped over the stair. Generally, the verb trip is used with a word like up or over. Apart from tripping over objects, you can trip up on answers to questions, for example, when you make a mistake.

The slang meaning of trip is to have a hallucination - when you see things that aren’t real, which is usually caused by taking drugs or drinking too much. To take a trip means to take a drug like LSD, and then you can use it as a verb and say “I’m tripping”.

Now you can say:
I took a trip to London and took a trip and then tripped over a dog. Man, I was really tripping!

EXCERPTS FROM A DOG'S DIARY

Day number 180
8:00 AM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!
9:30 AM - GREAT! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVOURITE!
9:40 AM - GREAT! A WALK! MY FAVOURITE!
10:30 AM - GREAT! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVOURITE!
11:30 AM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!
12:00 NOON - GREAT! THE KIDS! MY FAVOURITE!
1:00 PM - GREAT! THE YARD! MY FAVOURITE!
4:00 PM - GREAT! THE KIDS! MY FAVOURITE!
5:00 PM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!
5:30 PM - GREAT! MUM! MY FAVOURITE!

Day number 1081
8:00 AM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!
9:30 AM - GREAT! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVOURITE!
9:40 AM - GREAT! A WALK! MY FAVOURITE!
10:30 AM - GREAT! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVOURITE!
11:30 AM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!
12:00 NOON - GREAT! THE KIDS! MY FAVOURITE!
1:00 PM - GREAT! THE YARD! MY FAVOURITE!
4:00 PM - GREAT! THE KIDS! MY FAVOURITE!
5:00 PM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!
5:30 PM - GREAT! MUM! MY FAVOURITE!

Day number 2082
8:00 AM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!
9:30 AM - GREAT! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVOURITE!
9:40 AM - GREAT! A WALK! MY FAVOURITE!
10:30 AM - GREAT! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVOURITE!
11:30 AM - GREAT! DOG FOOD! MY FAVOURITE!