EF Pre Int 4th ed. Unit 11 A Reading (p. 86): Fame Academy

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sława
szkoła sławy / akademia sławy
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fame
a fame academy
dorastać
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to grow up
They grew up to become famous.
słynny / sławny
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famous
They grew up to become famous.
iskra
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a spark
They grew up to become famous but what were they like when they were at school? Did they already have that ‘spark’ that made them different? We asked their teachers.
główny wokalista
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a lead singer
Alex Turner - lead singer and songwriter of Arctic Monkeys.
kompozytor piosenek, autor piosenek
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a songwriter
Alex Turner - lead singer and songwriter of Arctic Monkeys.
tekst piosenki
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song lyrics
Mr Baker, his English teacher, really liked poetry, and I’m sure Alex was inspired by him because his song lyrics are incredible.
zbierać pieniądze
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to collect money
He was in hospital for a week, and we collected money and bought him a CD, so he was probably beginning to get interested in music.
więzienie
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a prison
The school was a bit like a prison, and then her mum, Anne, got seriously ill.
technik
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a technician
Anne worked as my technician, and Joanne used to come and wait outside the science building for her mum, so that they could walk home together.
oczywiście / najwyraźniej
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obviously
She was obviously very worried about her mum.
(Br En) opiekun grupy wiekowej uczniów
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a housemaster
znęcać się / prześladować
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to bully
Jude was bullied at his first secondary school so he changed schools when he was 14 and came to us.
pewność siebie
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confidence
He adapted very quickly, which shows his confidence.
recenzja
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a review
He quickly started acting in school plays, and he used to get fantastic reviews in the school magazine.
kolega z klasy / koleżanka z klasy
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a classmate
Some of his classmates thought the same and he wasn’t very popular with them.
zazdrosny
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jealous
Other boys were jealous of him.
postać (w książce, filmie, sztuce)
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a character
Joanne has said that no characters in Harry Potter are based more than 10% on a real person.
zbieg okoliczności, przypadek
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a coincidence
So perhaps it’s just a coincidence that I used to have long, black hair.
uczciwy
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honest
But to be honest, I think Professor Snape, especially in the later books, is very like me.
1) (termin literacki) napój, eliksir 2) mikstura (o lekarstwie medycyny alternatywnej)
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a potion
Professor Snape - the potions teacher in the Harry Potter books
be in charge of something
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in charge of something
housemaster - teacher in charge of a house in a boarding school
szkoła z internatem
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a boarding school
housemaster - teacher in charge of a house in a boarding school
brać, rozważać, traktować
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to treat
be bullied - be badly treated physically or mentally by other people, e.g. by other children at school
fizycznie
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physically
be bullied - be badly treated physically or mentally by other people, e.g. by other children at school
uczeń, uczennica
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a pupil
My school has over 600 pupils.
występować (dla publiczności)
On komponuje i wykonuje swoją własną muzykę
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to perform
He composes and performs his own music.

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