Misc - Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary

estate agent

did you find anything?

No I didn't

room- camera

one and a half hours

one hour and forty-five minutes

while-mentre

at the moment sto cercando- i am looking for

i haven't found a suitable flat yet

i haven't found what i'm looking for. To look for -

i didn't find what i was looking for.

Fingertips the tip of my tongue 'it's on the tip of my tongue'

toes – dita dei piedi

pugni- fist, verbo punch

kick – dare un calcio

to kick with my feet, to punch with my fists(pugni)/hands (mani)

arm- braccio elbow-gomito elbow grease-olio di gomito wrist- polso knuckles-nocche

thumb-pollice little finger 'she has him wrapped around her little finger'

middle finger 'he extended his middle finger in an angry gesture'

index finger-indice ring finger-annulare

big toe-alluce little toe-

ankle- caviglia heel- tallone 'achille's heel'= weak point.

Knee- ginnocchio (silent k)

hip-anca

waist-

chest-petto 'chest press'

torso-torso

neck-collo 'bottle-neck' 'they were stuck in a bottle neck of traffic and so were late to work' = they were in a traffic jam. (marmellata di traffico!)

jaw – mandibola 'jaws' the film by Steven Spielberg with the big shark (fish)

evil-il male good-il bene

devil-il diavolo God-Dio

kind-gentile o tipo my favourite kind/type of cake “siens” science fiction o 'sci-fi'