Savremeni engleski jezik 2

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A Matter of ChanceDavid A. Hill

• Analyse the following sentence:

After two or three hundred years of rain, ice, snow, wind and sun the roof-tile fell from its place down into the street of the old town and hit my wife in the middle of her head, killing her instantly.

• pharmacy – pharmacist, pharmaceutical• cure, drug, medicament, medication• roof-tile – made of baked clay• to tile; tile-like; on the tiles• weather conditions – rain, ice, snow, wind,

sun, drizzle, showers, flood, hail, fog, breeze, drought, lightning, thunder, rainbow

• tiny – very small, minute, wee, little, diminutive, teeny

• alone, lonely, lonesome• jump off – to be full of activity, to bustle• to leap, to spring over• jump on• jump down sb’s throat

• silly – weak-minded, lacking good sense, stupid, foolish

• silly – absurd, ridiculous, irrational• silly – silliness

• bedroom vocabulary – pillow, dresser, blanket, rug, mattress, sheet, wardrobe