Lesson-7 Eating

Lesson-7 Eating

 My mother radically changed her eating habits a few years ago.
လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္အနည္းငယ္ကမွ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္အေမက သူမရဲ႕ အစားအေသာက္အေလ့အက်င့္ကို အႀကီးအက်ယ္ေျပာင္းလဲပစ္တယ္။
 In the past, she ate a lot of junk food (food that is not nutritious/healthy) and was overweight. အရင္ကဆိုရင္ေတာ့ အေမက အာဟာရမယ္မယ္ရရမရိွတဲ့အစားအစာေတြ (အာဟာရမရိွ၊ က်န္းမာေရးနဲ႕မညီညြတ္တဲ့အစားအစာေတြ) အမ်ားႀကီး စားခဲ့ေတာ့ အ၀လြန္ခဲ့တယ္ေလ။
 Sometimes she would try to go on a diet (eat less food and healthier food), but it would never last. တစ္ခါတစ္ခါေတာ့ အေမက ၀ိတ္ေလွ်ာ့စားဖို႕ႀကိဳးစားခဲ့မွာေပါ့ေလ (အစားအစာေလွ်ာ့စားၿပီး က်န္းမာေရးနဲ႕ညီညြတ္တဲ့အစားအစာကိုစားတယ္) ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း အဲဒါက ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ၿမဲတယ္မရိွခဲ့ဘူး။
 But now she understands how unhealthy processed foods are – they’re full of food additives (chemicals added to food) that contribute to weight gain and heart problems. ဒါေပမယ့္ အခုေတာ့ အေမက စက္ရုံထုတ္အစားအစာေတြက က်န္းမာေရးနဲ႕မညီညြတ္ဘူးဆိုတဲ့အေၾကာင္း နားလည္ေဘာေပါက္လာပါၿပီ။ အဲဒီ အစားအစာေတြက ၀ိတ္အားပိုတိုးေစတဲ့၊ အသည္းျပႆနာေတြျဖစ္ေစတဲ့ အဓိကအေၾကာင္းအရင္းျဖစ္တဲ့ အစာထဲထည့္ထားတဲ့အျဖည့္ပစၥည္းေတြနဲ႕ျပည့္လို႕ (ဓာတု၊ ေဆးဆိုးေတြနဲ႕အစားအစာထဲကိုထည့္ထားတယ္)။

Lesson-6-Houses and Apartments

 Lesson 6 Houses and Apartments

I recently spent a month on vacation – but instead of staying in a hotel, I looked for a short-term rental (a place to live that can be rented for a short period of time). I ended up sharing a two-bedroom apartment – that’s an apartment with two bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen – with some friends. It was actually cheaper than renting a studio apartment (an apartment with only one big room) all by myself.

ခုေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ့ အလည္အပတ္ တစ္လ ထြက္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဟိုတယ္မွာ တည္းေနမယ့္အစား အခ်ိန္တို ခဏငွါးတဲ့ တိုက္ခန္းကိုပဲ လိုက္ရွာခဲ့တယ္။ အတူမွ်ေနရတဲ့ အိပ္ခန္းႏွစ္ခန္းပါတဲ့ (သူငယ္ခ်င္းတခ်ိဳ႕၊ ဧည့္ခန္း၊ မီးဖိုေခ်ာင္နဲ႕ )ခန္းတဲြကိုေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ လက္ေလွ်ာ့လိုက္တယ္။ အဲဒါက တကယ္ေတာ့ တစ္ေယာက္တည္းေန စတုဒီယိုခန္းထက္ေတာ့ ေစ်းခ်ိဳတာေပါ့။

8 Expressions You Can Use Right Now

• Work (one's) ass/butt off 

Definition: To work very hard and tirelessly.

Ex. I'm exhausted, been working my ass off all week. 

• Bust (one's) ass/butt

Definition: Same as work one's ass/butt off.

Ex. Hillary is busting her ass to get elected President.  

• Work (one's) fingers to the bone

Definition: Work hard on something (usually to accomplish a certain goal).

Ex. They don't have much money, but she's worked her fingers to the bone to get her kids a university education.

• Juggle (many things)

Definition: To multitask, to do (or attempt to do) many things at the same time.

Ex. I'm not going to go to the party; I've been juggling so many things at work and I just want to rest. 

• Burn out 

Definition: Become completely exhausted (or even sick) from overworking. 

Ex. She felt extremely burnt out after working 15 hours every day this week.

• Under pressure

Definition: With high expectations to deliver certain results.

Ex. He's been grumpy because he's under a lot of pressure at work. 

• Snowed under

Definition: With many tasks and things to accomplish.

Ex. I need to move our meeting to next week; I'm snowed under with paper work.

• Tied up (with something)

Definition: Busy with something 

Ex. We're all tied up with this new project. The best way to remember new vocabulary is to start using it, so go put these expressions to use!! 

Expressions in this lessons are honestly credited to http://reallifeglobal.com/blog/

Lesson-5- Feelings

Lesson – 5 Feelings

roller coaster of emotions

ridiculously excited

I experienced a roller coaster of emotions when my son was born (many different emotions one after another).

သားေလးေမြးေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္စိတ္ခံစားခ်က္ေတြ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေျပာင္းလဲ တလွပ္လွပ္နဲ႕ဂေယာက္ေယာက္ ဂယက္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတယ္။

During my wife’s pregnancy, I was ridiculously excited about the prospect of becoming a dad.

ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ဇနီးသည္ ကိုယ္၀န္လြယ္ထားရတဲ့အခ်ိန္တြင္းတုန္းကဆို ကြ်န္ေတာ့္မွာ ဖခင္ျဖစ္လာမယ့္ အေရး ေတြးၿပီး အရူးအမႈး စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားခဲ့ရတယ္။

blissfully happy

worried sick

On the big day, I’d imagined that everything would go smoothly and we’d be blissfully happy – but there were complications during the delivery and my wife had to have emergency surgery while I waited in the reception area, worried sick (very worried).

အဲဒီေန႕ေရာက္ရင္ အရာရာဟာ ေခ်ာေမြ႕ညပ္ေညာၿပီး ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ျခင္း ခ်မ္းသာသုခႏွင့္ျပည့္စံုလိမ့္မယ္ လို႕ စိတ္ကူးယာဥ္ခဲ့တာ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ေလ တကယ္တမ္း ကေလးမီးဖြားေတာ့ ရႈပ္ေထြးစရာေတြနဲ႕ ႀကံဳေတြ႕ခဲ့ရတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္က ဧည့္ႀကိဳဌာနမွာ ေစာင့္ေနရခ်ိန္ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ဇနီးသည္က အေရးေပၚ ခဲြစိတ္ခန္း ၀င္ရတယ္။ စိတ္ေတြ အရမ္းထူပူသြားခဲ့ရတယ္။

Lesson-4- Character and Behavior

Lesson 4- Character and Behavior

painfully shy

had a vivid imagination

When I was a teenager, I was painfully shy (extremely shy). I loved reading books, and I had a vivid imagination (had a creative and colorful imagination).

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္တုန္းကဆို အရမ္းရွက္တတ္ခဲ့တာ။ စာအုပ္ေတြဖတ္ရတာကို ႏွစ္သက္ခဲ့တာေၾကာင့္ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္မွာ ေတာက္ပရႊန္းလဲ့တဲ့စိတ္ကူးစိတ္သန္းေတြရိွခဲ့တယ္။

outgoing personality

sense of humor

My best friend had a more outgoing personality (she liked to be friendly and sociable) and a good sense of humor (ability to make other people laugh).

ကြ်န္ေတာ့္အခ်စ္ဆံုးသူငယ္ခ်င္းက အရမ္းေဖာ္ေရြပ်ဴငွာတဲ့ ပင္ကိုယ္ဗီဇရိွတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ဟာသဥာဏ္လည္း ရႊင္တယ္။

Lesson-3- Appearance

Lesson-3 Appearance နဲ႕ပက္သက္တဲ့ English collocations မ်ား

absolutely gorgeous

My best friend Joanna is absolutely gorgeous (extremely beautiful).

ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ အခ်စ္ဆံုးသူငယ္ခ်င္း ဂ်ိဳဟာနဟာ အရမ္းလွတယ္။

long, sleek, jet-black hair

pale blue eyes

a radiant complexion

She has long, sleek, jet-black hair (sleek = smooth and straight, jet-black = perfectly black), pale blue eyes (pale = light color), and a radiant complexion (skin that appears healthy and full of energy).

သူမမွာ ရွည္လွ်ားၿပီး ေျဖာင့္စဥ္းေခ်ာေမြ႕ နက္ေမွာင္တဲ့ ဆံေကသာေတြရိွတယ္။ အျပာေရာင္ေဖ်ာ့ေဖ်ာ့ မ်က္လံုးေတြရိွတယ္။  စိုရႊန္း၀င္းပတဲ့ အသားအေရေတြ ရိွတယ္။

Lesson-2- Relationship

ဒီတစ္ပတ္ေတာ့ Lesson 2 Relationships ဆက္ဆံေရး နဲ႕ပက္သက္တဲ့ English Collocations ေတြ ေဖာ္ျပေပးပါမယ္။

ပထမဦးဆံုးေလ့လာမွတ္သားရမယ့္ အဂၤလိပ္စာ တဲြလံုးမ်ား English collocations ကေတာ့

make friends

casual acquaintances

When you move to a new city, it can be hard to make friends. You’ll probably have a number of casual acquaintances – people who you know on a basic level, but with whom you don’t have a significant relationship.

ၿမိဳ႕သစ္တစ္ခုဆီ ေျပာင္းေရြ႕လာတဲ့အခါ မိတ္ေဆြဖဲြ႕ဖို႕ make friends ခက္ခဲႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ အေျခခံ အဆင့္ေလာက္သာ သိရၿပီး ဆက္ဆံေရး အကြ်မ္းတ၀င္သိပ္မရိွလွတဲ့ သာမာန္မိတ္ေဆြေတြ  casual acquaintances ကေတာ့ အမ်ားႀကီး ရိွေကာင္း ရိွမွာပါ။

Lesson - 1 - Family

      Collocation ဆိုတာ မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးပါ။ Collocations မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးေတြ သိထားမယ္ ရမယ္ဆိုရင္ အဂၤလိပ္စာ အေရးသားပိုင္းေရာ အေျပာပိုင္းမွာပါ အဂၤလိပ္ေတြ ေရးသလို ေျပာသလို ေရးႏိုင္ ေျပာႏိုင္လာမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမိတ္ဖက္စကားေတြရထားျခင္းအားျဖင့္ အေရး အေျပာေတြမွာ ေ၀ေ၀ဆာဆာ လွလွပပ သြက္သြက္လက္လက္ ေျပာႏိုင္ ေရးႏိုင္ၿပီးေတာ့ ကိုယ္ေျပာတဲ့ ေရးတဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္စာေတြဟာ သဘာ၀လည္းက်တဲ့ အေရးအသား အေျပာအဆိုေတြျဖစ္လာမွာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မို Collocations မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးေတြကို ေလ့လာထားေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။ မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးေတြကို ေလ့လာလို႕ ရေအာင္ ဆရာမ Shayna Oliveira ေရးသားပို႕ခ်တဲ့ 1000 collocations in 10 minutes a day ကို Learning English Collocations မွ ျပန္လည္ မွ်ေ၀ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ကိုယ္ကိုယ္တိုင္လည္း ယခုထိ ေလ့လာသင္ယူေနဆဲပါ။ ကိုယ္ရသလို အျခား အဂၤလိပ္စာေလ့လာေနသူေတြလည္း ရေစခ်င္တဲ့ ဆႏၵတစ္ခုတည္းပါ။ ဆရာလုပ္လို၍ မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ၀န္ခံ     စကားေျပာပါရေစ………

ပထမဦးဆံုး Lesson 1 အေနနဲ႕ Family နဲ႕ ပက္သတ္ၿပီး အမ်ားစုေဖာ္ျပတဲ့ Collocations မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးစကားလံုးေတြကို ေလ့လာၾကရေအာင္ပါ။

Your parents and siblings (brothers and sisters) are your immediate family – and your extended family includes all your relatives – uncles, cousins, great-aunts, etc.

ခင္မ်ားရဲ႕ မိဘေတြ၊ ညီအစ္ကိုေမာင္ႏွမေတြဟာ ခင္မ်ားရဲ႕ immediate family ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ခင္မ်ားရဲ႕ extended family ဆိုတာ ခင္မ်ားရဲ႕ ေဆြမ်ိဳးေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးေလးတို႕၊ ၀မ္းကဲြညီအစ္ကို ေမာင္ႏွစ္မတို႕၊ ႀကီးႀကီးေဒၚေဒၚတို႕ ပါ၀င္တဲ့ မိသားစု ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Categories of Collocations

                O’Dell and McCarthy (2008) explain seven different grammatical categories of collocations as follows:

 1. Verb + noun: draw up a list/contract, pass up a chance/opportunity, and withstand pressure/the impact.

 2. Noun + verb: opportunity arise, and standards slip

 3. Noun + noun: a spate of attacks/thefts, a barrage of questions/insults, a stroke of luck, and a snippet of information.

4. Adjective + noun: idle threat, vain hope, mounting concern/criticism/ fury, and simple/plain truth.

5. Adverb + adjective: intensely personal, and stunningly attractive.

6. Verb + adverb or prepositional phrase: fail miserably, drive recklessly, burst into song, and foam at the mouth.

7. More complex collocations: take it easy for a while, and put the past behind you.

               

Introduction to Collocation

Collocation ဆိုတာ မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးပါ။ Collocations မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးေတြ သိထားမယ္ ရမယ္ဆိုရင္ အဂၤလိပ္စာ အေရးသားပိုင္းေရာ အေျပာပိုင္းမွာပါ အဂၤလိပ္ေတြ ေရးသလို ေျပာသလို ေရးႏိုင္ ေျပာႏိုင္လာမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမိတ္ဖက္စကားေတြရထားျခင္းအားျဖင့္ အေရး အေျပာေတြမွာ ေ၀ေ၀ဆာဆာ လွလွပပ သြက္သြက္လက္လက္ ေျပာႏိုင္ ေရးႏိုင္ၿပီးေတာ့ ကိုယ္ေျပာတဲ့ ေရးတဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္စာေတြဟာ သဘာ၀လည္းက်တဲ့ အေရးအသား အေျပာအဆိုေတြျဖစ္လာမွာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မို Collocations မိတ္ဖက္တဲြလံုးေတြကို ေလ့လာထားေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။