Spotlight - 11.2019

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big data

What are the more formal equivalents of the words

below?

a flop / to flop

a win / a winner / to win

gehen / go

Translate the following sentences:

1. David kann noch nicht gehen. Er ist erst zehn Monate alt.


2. Die Kaffeemaschine geht nicht.


3. How are you doing? / How’s it going?


4. I’m about to go / walk to the library.

Look at the following sentences. What do you notice

about the order of the words?

1. Rarely have we found time to meet in person.


2. Not only does John play football; he also plays golf.

Read the following words aloud:

a burning question

Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Wir schreiben nächste Woche eine Prüfung.


2. Ich habe die Prüfung bestanden.


3. Er ist in der Prüfung durchgefallen.

What would a speaker of British English say?

“We provide the best software

tools for analysing big data.”

cat cat’s

Rob Rob’s

Hong Kong speaker:

“A number of new agencies

offering compensated dating

have opened up.”

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Austrennung an der Perforierung

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