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Magazine Article
Taken from: Seventeen – April
2007
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The article is about a girl who decided to get a tattoo. And she hid it from her mom.But the guy who had done the tattoo wasn’t that trustful person... And everything went wrong and she got serious problems with it...
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New expressions:inch: a unit used for measuring length, which is approximately equal to 2.54 centimetres, sometimes shown by the symbol “
*”The tattoo gun was about nine inches long.”
buzz: to make a continuous low sound such as the one a bee makes.
*”... It made a buzzing sound as he moved the needle on my foot.”
shady: dishonest or illegal * “I’ll admit that I knew it was all kind of
shady, since he wasn’t licensed...”
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mess up: to make / do something wrong or hit someone repeatedly so that they are badly injured.
* “He said: ‘Sorry, I messed up’”
- glance: to give a quick short look .* “I glanced down and saw that...”
- crooked: not forming a straight line; having many sharp bends .
*”... Saw that the edges of the tattoo were crooked.”
- razor blade: a thin flat piece of metal with a sharp edge for cutting that can be used in a razor.
* “It felt like a razor blade cutting my skin over and over.”
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- hand: to give something to someone.*”She handed me a bottle of vodka.”
throb: If a part of your body throbs, you feel pain in it in a series of regular beats.
*”My left foot was throbbing.”
chicken out: to decide not to do something because you are too frightened.
* “I was mad at Ariel for chickening out of getting his tattoo.”
swell up: to become larger and rounder than usual; to (cause to) increase in size or amount
* “My foot swelled up.”
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barefoot: not wearing any shoes or socks*”I walked barefoot into the bathroom...”
-go ballistic: to become extremely angry.*”When I got home, my mum saw my foot and
went ballistic.”
seep out: to move or spread slowly out of a hole or through something.
* “A gross yellowish liquid kept seeping out of it…”
lift up: to take hold of and raise in order to remove, carry or move to a different position.
* ”I lifted up half of the tattoo.”
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excruciating: extremely painful/ uncomfortable.
* “My foot was excruciating.”
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- Discuss these questions with a partner / group
c) Do you have any tattoos / piercing?d) Do you know anybody who has got them?e) Have you ever considered getting one?
Why(not)?f) What do you think of them? Why?g) What are some good / bad points of having
them?h) Are your parents in favour or against
them?i) How does society react to them?j) How can tattoos affect somebody
professionally?k) Define tattoos in two words.
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I hope you all have learnt something new!!
=)
The EndBy Laís Ap. Oliveira
CPE 2