آموزش مکالمه 1

Collocation Set 01:

Be on one's deathbed > لب گور بودن
A skirt-chaser > زن باز
Call someone by the wrong names > کسی رو اشتباه صدا کردن
A white lie > دروغ مصلحتی
Average-looking > معمولی

Story - The Man Who Loved Women

The Man Who Loved Women:

Grady was rich, but he was 78 and on his deathbed. No amount of money—or love—could save him now.

In his youth, Grady had been a major skirt-chaser. No woman was safe from his charm. He used to juggle three or four girlfriends at a time.

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Poem - I Remember By Jerry Krause Sr

I Remember:

I remember a time in youth
Brothers, best friends, together always.
Fishing, and baseball, - oh those were the days.

I remember, together as teens
The fighting and arguing and all in between
The laughing and joking till tears filled our eyes.

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Quotes - Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey:

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

Quotes - Samuel Jackson

Samuel Jackson:

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

Quotes - Creflo Dollar

Creflo Dollar:

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be.

Quotes - Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer:

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Quotes - Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius:

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts

Quotes - David Viscott

David Viscott:

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Idiom - As sound as a dollar

As sound as a dollar:

Very secure and dependable.

The company president believes that his business is as sound as a dollar.

Persian: امن امان، مطمئن

Quotes - Abigail Van Buren

Abigail Van Buren:

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Idiom - As poor as a church mouse

As poor as a church mouse:

Very poor.

The young mother is as poor as a church mouse and she has little money to feed her family.

Persian: فقیر

Quotes - Francis Of Assisi

Francis Of Assisi:

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Idiom - A bad hair day

A bad hair day:

If you're have a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.

Poor Sue's in a terrible mood. I think she's having a bad hair day.

I knew it was going to be a bad hair day when my car wouldn't start.

Persian: روز تخ-می داشتن

Idiom - As phony as a three-dollar bill

As phony as a three-dollar bill:

Phony, not genuine.

Jack is phony as a three-dollar bill. You can't trust him.

Persian: قلابی، آدم متظاهر، ریاکار

Quotes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti:

Poetry is eternal graffiti written on the hearts of everyone.

Quotes - Michael D. Montaigne

Michael D. Montaigne:

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Quotes - Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho:

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,

Quotes - Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar:

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.

دارک دانشگاهی به زبان انگلیسی و اصطلاحات مربوط به درس و دانشگاه و مدرسه

Some Expression in English and Persian:

مدرک فوق دیپلم
associate's degree

(لیسانس رشته‌های علوم انسانی مثل زبان،...)
B.A. (Bachelor of Arts)

لیسانس رشته‌های علمی و فنی (مثل ریاضی،..)
B.S. (Bachelor of Science)

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Story - A Drunk Man at the Bar

A Drunk Man at the Bar:

A man had been drinking at the bar for hours when he mentioned something about his girlfriend being out in the car. The bartender, concerned because it was so cold, went to check on her. When he looked inside the car, he saw the man's friend, Dave, and his girlfriend kissing one another. The bartender shook his head and walked back inside.
He told the drunk that he thought it might be a good idea to check on his girlfriend. The fellow staggered outside to the car, saw his buddy and his girlfriend kissing, then walked back into the bar laughing.
"What's so funny? " the bartender asked.
"That stupid Dave! " the fellow chortled, "He's so drunk, he thinks he's me! "

Story - Fascinate

Fascinate:

A teacher asked her students to use the word "fascinate " in a sentence. Mary said, "My family went to the New York City Zoo, and we saw all the animals. It was fascinating. " The teacher said, "That was good, but I wanted the word "'fascinate.'" Sally raised her hand. She said, "My family went to the Philadelphia Zoo and saw the animals. I was fascinated. " The teacher said, "Good, but I wanted the word 'fascinate.'" Little Billy raised his hand. The teacher hesitated because Billy was noted for is bad language. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word "fascinate " so she called on him. Billy said, "My sister has a sweater with 10 buttons, but her boobs are so big she can only fasten 8. "

Quotes - Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernières:

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Proverb - Rome wasn't built in a day

Rome wasn't built in a day:

All things take time to create. And great things like the city of Rome take a very long time. So we shouldn't expect to accomplish something or achieve success immediately.

Idiom - From now on

From now on:

If you do something "from now on", you do it from now until some unknown time in the future.

From now on you can wear casual clothes to work every Friday.

I was lucky to escape from the accident with just a few minor injuries, so from now on I'm going to be much more careful when I drive.

Persian:   از این به بعد

Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Quotes - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky:

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Quotes - Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk:

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Quotes - Anne Carson

Anne Carson:

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.