A videó megnézése után válaszolj a következő kérdésekre a beszélgetésben hallottak alapján.

1. When is the premier of his latest movie, ’Jungle Cruise’?
2. What film has he just finished?
3. How long has he been training for this role?
4. Why was this training very important for Dwayne?
5. How does he break his strict diet? What does he do sometimes?
6. When did he have his cheat meal after the final shot of ’Black Adam’?
7. What was his cheat meal for this workout after the final shot?
8. How does Dwayne have the so called ’Rock toast’?
9. Who is cooler than the ’Rock’ according to Dwayne’s daughter?
10. What is Dwayne’s opinion about Jason Momoa?
11. What did Jason Momoa send to Dwayne 3-year-old daughter?
12. What did Aquaman make that makes Dwayne look bad?
13. What did Dwayne’s mother do during Dwayne and Jimmy’s previous interview?
14. What does Dwayne’s mother think of Jimmy?
15. What is the Mana Mobile?

keys/megoldások: 1. July 30th; 2. ’Black Adam’; 3. for two years/for a few years; 4. Because he had one shot to create something definitive in the world of superheroes and comic book lore, mythology.; 5. He has a cheat meal every now and then when he isn’t training.; 6. by 1.30 a.m.; 7. the biggest pile of pancakes Jimmy Fallon could imagine; 8. He loves eating a four-inch thick brioche French toast with peanut butter, butter, some Teremana-infused syrup, coconut chips, whipped cream; 9. Aquaman is cooler for her; 10. As he has known Jason for a long time, he is very proud of his career and all the things that he has been doing.; 11. a video to Tia and Jazzy; 12. He invited both children to Hawaii and promised to swim with them in the ocean and they would go rock climbing as well; 13. She hijacked that interview because she started playing ukulele music and sang a song about how they loved Jimmy.; 14. She thinks that Jimmy is the greatest thing, a walking God on green Earth.; 15. It’s a vehicle that can serve taco, special recipes, Teremana Tequila cocktails, French toasts. Multiple Mana Mobiles go from coast to coast to bring the mana to people.

Összegyűjtöttünk néhány hasznos kifejezést a beszélgetésből és megadtuk az angol magyarázataikat! Így már magabiztosan fogjátok ti is használni őket a jövőben!

You’re ripped: having strong, well-developed muscles that can be seen through the skin

Oh, my gosh!: used to express surprise or strength of feeling

cheat meals: a meal which temporarily breaks the rules of a diet

we wrapped: we completed the filming of a motion picture or television programme

dude: a man

buddy: a friend

Teremana tequila: combines two words that are meaningful. ‘TERE’ derived from the Latin ‘terra’ meaning earth and ‘MANA’, the Polynesian word meaning spirit – Teremana is the “Spirit of the Earth (Dwayne Johnson’s own tequila brand, tequila made from fully mature naturally sweet agave from Mexico)

gluttony: a situation in which people eat and drink more than they need to

jump right on that: react immediately without thinking a lot

hijack the interview: to take control of the interview for her own advantage

ukulele: a small guitar or banjo with four strings

fame goes (in)to her head: it makes her think that she is very important and makes her a less pleasant person

to adore: to love someone very much, especially in a way that shows a lot of admiration or respect, or to like something very much

to date: up to the present time

1. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.
2. Honey bees live in hives (or colonies). The members of the hive are divided into three types:

     Queen: One queen runs the whole hive. Her job is to lay the eggs that will spawn the hive’s next generation of bees. The queen also produces chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other bees.

     Workers: these are all female and their roles are to forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean and circulate air by beating their wings. Workers are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside the hive.

     Drones: These are the male bees, and their purpose is to mate with the new queen. Several hundred live in each hive during the spring and summer. But come winter, when the hive goes into survival mode, the drones are kicked out!

3. What are these buzzing bugs most famous for? Delicious honey! But did you know they produce honey as food stores for the hive during winter? Luckily for us, these efficient little workers produce 2-3 time more honey than they need, so we get to enjoy the tasty treat, too!
4. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “royal jelly“. This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen.
5. Honey bees are fab flyers. They fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second!
6. Each bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.
7. The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. During this time, she’ll produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
8. The queen can live up to five years. She is busiest in the summer months, when she can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day!
9. Honey bees are also brilliant boogiers! To share information about the best food sources, they perform their ‘waggle dance’. When the worker returns to the hive, it moves in a figure-of-eight and waggles its body to indicate the direction of the food source. Cool, huh?

10. Sadly, over the past 15 years, colonies of bees have been disappearing, and the reason remains unknown. Referred to as ‘colony collapse disorder’, billions of honey bees across the world are leaving their hives, never to return. In some regions, up to 90% of bees have disappeared!

We can all do our bit to support these brilliant bugs, gang! Why not plant flowers rich in nectar, such as lavender and bluebells, which will help bees find the food they need? Also, be sure to choose local honey, too, which will support our honey bees and their beekeepers!

source (article; video and picture): National Geographic Kids, Angelina Jolie Covered In Bees: It ‘Felt Lovely’, Access; Youtube

A cikk elolvasása után próbáld megtalálni, melyik ponthoz (1-10), melyik kérdés (A-L) tartozik. Vigyázz, mert van két kérdés, amikre nincs szükség.

A.What is the special ability of honey bees?

B.Why are honey bees vital in nature?

C.What is the minor purpose of a queen bee?

D.What are these buzzing bugs most famous for?

E.What do honey bees use their special sense of smell for?

F.Why is ‘bee dance’ informative?

G.What’s life inside a beehive?

H.What is the lifespan of a queen?

I.What has happened to bees recently?

J.How is would-be-queen bee nurtured?

K.What is the lifespan of a bee worker?

L.Why are honey bees said to be fabulous?

keys/megoldások: 1. B; 2. G.; 3. D.; 4. J.; 5. L.; 6. E.; 7. K.; 8. H.; 9. F; 10. I.; extrák: C;  A.

A videó megnézése után egészítsd ki a mondatokat a videóban elhangzott információk alapján. Próbáld pontosan azt a szót használni, amit hallasz az adott mondatnál.

1.The Hollywood superstar was covered in … for an important …

2. She teamed up with National Geographic to …awareness about
   bee conservation and to champion …beekeepers.
3. The campaign is in honor of world …Day on May ….
4. This is problem that we can we can …we can certainly do our …and
   we can do much better.
5. Despite how calm she looked while the …swarmed all over her,
   at least one got a little too …for comfort.
6. ’It stayed there the entire time we were doing the …and then
   when I lifted the skirt, he went …luckily.’
7. Angelina …felt as though she was in any ….
8. ’It felt lovely to be that …to these beautiful ….’
9. Angelina has long been …for her work empowering …across the globe.
10. Playing a female …in her new movie symbolizes how
    she’s faced and …personal challenges throughout her life.

keys/megoldások:
1. bees, cause; 2. raise, female;
3. Bee, 20^th; 4. manage, part;
5. insects, close; 6. shoot, away;
7. never, danger; 8.  connected; creatures;
9.  known, women; 10. firefighter, overcome

1.CAPTCHA:

It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Coined in 2003, the name references Alan Turing, who invented the Turing test, originally called the imitation game, which is used to test a machine’s ability to exhibit artificially intelligent behavior and mimic a human. Now, all types of simple Turing tests are used to prevent spam bots from stealing people’s information, mostly.

2.ZIP code:

That stands for Zone Improvement Plan. It was created by the US Postal Service, and the term was actually service marked, which is basically a legal trademark, until 1997.

3.H&M:

The company started in 1947 as women’s fashion retailer Hennes, which is Swedish for Hers. In 1968, they acquired, weirdly enough, a hunting apparel and fishing equipment retailer named Mauritz Widforss, and the name became Hennes & Mauritz. In 1974, it was simplified to just H&M.

4.TARDIS:

The TARDIS, the trusty vehicle of Doctor Who, resembles a British Police Phone Box. It’s become an iconic symbol of the beloved sci-fi series. It stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Fun fact, the word TARDIS is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

5.DC Comics:

DC comics has given us Wonder Woman, Bat Man, The Flash, Superman. It was originally founded as National Allied Publications in 1934, and soon after became Detective Comics Inc., named after one of their comic lines, which famously, in issue 27, would debut Bat Man. They later acquired All-American Publications, who in their line Action Comics had debuted Superman in issue 1. At this point, they were known as National Periodical Publications, but it’s said that they had already been branding themselves unofficially as “Superman-DC” for years. In 1977, they would officially adopt the name DC Comics.

6.LED:

LED lights have become way more popular over the last decade, offering relatively high output in an energy efficient package. Did you know that LED stands for Light-emitting diode? Making the phrase “LED Light” redundant so let’s just stop saying it.

7.WD 40:

WD 40 was invented in a small lab in San Diego, California. The staff of the Rocket Chemical Company were attempting to make a formula that would displace water, which is essentially what the product is doing when it loosens rusted parts or frees up sticky mechanisms. As the story goes, it took them 40 tries to perfect it. Water displacement perfected on the 40th try. WD 40.

8.DVD:

DVD is an interesting example of an acronym where the full title has actually changed over the years. Originally, it stood for digital video disc. But, in 1995, dvd manufacturers agreed that “in order to emphasize the flexibility of the format for multimedia applications, the preferred abbreviation DVD would be understood to denote digital versatile disc.” Unfortunately, the abbreviation doesn’t matter as much anymore because they have fallen in popularity due to the convenient world of streaming.

9.ALF:

Remember ALF? Me either. But just as ET stands for extra-terrestrial, ALF stands for Alien Life Form. What was going on in the ‘80s?

10.OPI:

Famous nail polish brand OPI was originally founded as dental supply company Odontorium Products Inc. The company’s CEO made the switch when he realized that their dental acrylics were being used in the manicure industry. Thus, OPI was born.

11.SEAL:

While seals are not the most impressive or dangerous creatures in the animal world, Navy SEALs kind of are. SEAL stands for Sea, Air, And Land. The US Navy Seal teams have been active since 1962.

12.Yahoo:

It was initially called Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web. Seems like a perfect name for one of the world’s biggest companies, but as it grew in popularity, it was changed to Yahoo which is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, according to Britannica. Although, another story goes that the founders chose it simply because they liked the existing definition of a yahoo: “rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.”

13.IKEA:

IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd. The first half is the founder’s name, followed by the farm where he grew up, and finally his hometown.

14.SOS:

Let’s dedicate #25 to some backronyms. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it refers to a post-hoc meaning applied to the letters of a name that’s already been created. For example, SOS is famously thought to mean Save our Ship or Save our Souls, but in reality, it was chosen to be the international distress code simply for ease of use.

15.ADIDAS:

And to your FIFA-loving friend who claims that Adidas stands for All Day I Dream About Soccer… let them down easy and tell them the truth: it was named after its founder, Adi Dassler.

source: 25 Acronyms & Initialisms, Mental Floss, Youtube; Cambridge Dictionary

A videó megnézése és/vagy az összefoglaló elolvasása után válaszolj a következő kérdésekre.

1. Which acronym refers to a vehicle?
2. Which acronym refers to the number of attempts by when the product became perfected?
3. Which acronym has gone through changes?
4. Which acronym derives from a name?
5. Which acronym has a reversed history?

keys/megoldások: 1. TARDIS; 2. WD 40; 3. DVD; 4. ADIDAS (IKEA and H&M are combinations of a name and something else, in case of IKEA it also refers to the farm where the founder grew up and in case of H&M, H refers to Hers in Swedish); 5. SOS

While St. Patrick’s Day is now associated with wearing green, parades (when they’re not cancelled) and beer, the holiday is grounded in history that dates back more than 1,500 years. The earliest known celebration was held on March 17, 1631, marking the anniversary of the death of St. Patrick in the 5th century. Learn more about the holiday’s history and how it evolved into the event it is today.

1. The Real St. Patrick Was Born in Britain

Much of what is known about St. Patrick’s life has been interwoven with folklore and legend. Historians generally believe that St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Britain (not Ireland) near the end of the 4th century. At age 16 he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold as a slave to a Celtic priest in Northern Ireland. After toiling for six years as a shepherd, he escaped back to Britain. He eventually returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary.

2. There Were No Snakes Around for St. Patrick to Banish from Ireland

Among the legends associated with St. Patrick is that he stood atop an Irish hillside and banished snakes from Ireland—prompting all serpents to slither away into the sea. In fact, research suggests snakes never occupied the Emerald Isle in the first place. There are no signs of snakes in the country’s fossil record. And water has surrounded Ireland since the last glacial period. Before that, the region was covered in ice and would have been too cold for the reptiles.

3. Leprechauns Are Likely Based on Celtic Fairies

The red-haired, green-clothed Leprechaun is commonly associated with St. Patrick’s Day. The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.” Belief in leprechauns likely stems from Celtic belief in fairies— tiny men and women who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. In Celtic folktales, leprechauns were cranky souls, responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies.

4. The Shamrock Was Considered a Sacred Plant

The shamrock, a three-leaf clover, has been associated with Ireland for centuries. It was called the “seamroy” by the Celts and was considered a sacred plant that symbolized the arrival of spring. According to legend, St. Patrick used the plant as a visual guide when explaining the Holy Trinity. By the 17th century, the shamrock had become a symbol of emerging Irish nationalism.

5. The First St. Patrick’s Day Parade Was Held in America

While people in Ireland had celebrated St. Patrick since the 1600s, the tradition of a St. Patrick’s Day parade began in America and actually predates the founding of the United States.

Records show that a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601 in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The parade, and a St. Patrick’s Day celebration a year earlier were organized by the Spanish Colony’s Irish vicar Ricardo Artur. More than a century later, homesick Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched in Boston in 1737 and in New York City on March 17. Enthusiasm for the St. Patrick’s Day parades in New York City, Boston and other early American cities only grew from there. In 2020, parades throughout the country, including in New York City and Boston were cancelled or postponed for the first time in decades due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus.

6. The Irish Were Once Scorned in America

While Irish Americans are now proud to showcase their heritage, the Irish were not always celebrated by fellow Americans. Beginning in 1845, a devastating potato blight caused widespread hunger throughout Ireland. While approximately 1 million perished, another 2 million abandoned their land in the largest-single population movement of the 19th century. Most of the exiles—nearly a quarter of the Irish nation—came to the shores of the United States.

7. Corned Beef and Cabbage Was an American Innovation

The meal that became a St. Patrick’s Day staple across the country—corned beef and cabbage—was an American innovation. While ham and cabbage were eaten in Ireland, corned beef offered a cheaper substitute for impoverished immigrants. Irish-Americans living in the slums of lower Manhattan in the late 19th century and early 20th, purchased leftover corned beef from ships returning from the tea trade in China. The Irish would boil the beef three times—the last time with cabbage—to remove some of the brine.

source: History.com

A videó megnézése után egészítsétek ki az érdekes információkat tartalmazó összegzést. A hiányzó helyekre maximum 2 szót írhattok. 

source (video): Why we wear green on St. Patrick’s Day and other Irish traditions; Home of the Holidays; Youtube

Interesting pieces of information:

1. _______used to be Ireland symbolic colour before the 1600s.
2. The colour green is also meant to _____against leprechauns and fairies in the early 1700s. People in Ireland believed these mystical creatures would _______you if you didn’t wear the country’s favourite colour. Wearing green was said to make you _______to the mischievous creatures and making pinching you impossible.
3. On St Patrick’s day the people of Ireland would indulge in as much food and ______as possible. They would mostly have non-alcoholic drinks as _____ were closed on the holiday as drinking during _______observed holidays was looked __________ .
4. However, in the 70s _______companies began to target the holiday with ________causing the beer drinking tradition to spread but it is mainly observed in the US, not in Ireland.

keys/megoldások: 1. blue; 2. protect, pinch, invisible; 3. beverages, pubs, church, down on; 4. beer, advertising

A videó megnézése után válaszolj a következő kérdésekre az elhangzott információk alapján.

1. Where does Shirley live?
2. Why did she start playing video games?
3. What health benefit of her hobby does she mention?
4. What kind of player is Shirley?
5. Why does she love playing Skyrim so much?

keys/megoldások: 1. in Rocky Mountain; 2. Because his son gave her first computer and her first game.; 3. It keeps her brain active.; 4. She is a derpy/foolish player but she loves playing Skyrim.; 5. Because it’s an adventure for her and she loves going on adventures