We’re now very busy wrapping up classes, meetings, projects, deals and jobs just before we leave on vacation, right?
Yes and no! Time went by so fast, don’t you think?
Well, I’m sure we’ve learned a lot! But it’s not all done yet! Hehe… There’s always something we can learn from every little thing!
Here we have happy to see = adjective + infinitive
We can use adjective + infinitive (with to) to say what we think of things that people do. We do this with adjectives like clever, crazy, right, silly, stupid and wrong.
You’re crazy to think you can get there in an hour.
You were clever to bring an umbrella.
We can also use infinitives (with to) after adjectives for feelings, like afraid, glad, happy, pleased, sad, surprised, unhappy.
Mom will be glad to find you at home.
I’m pleased to meet you.
Okay! I’ll be happy to know that you’ve got that!
“My friend has got ALS but he’s the happiest guy on earth!”
That’s what I’ve heard from a student of mine. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a specific disease (=illness) which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. It’s a degenerative disease.
So it came up the need to learn how to talk about illnesses.
Find below two good videos to introduce you to this matter. Listen carefully and make notes of what you hear.
Hallelujah! What a beautiful word! The song, originally written and sung by Leonard Cohen in 1984, has been performed by so many artists in various languages. But this cover by Jeff Buckley, an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, is a very special one!
“And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand right here before the Lord of song, with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah’.”
It’s, as I say, a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion…It’s a rather joyous song. I wanted to write something in the tradition of the hallelujah choruses but from a different point of view…It’s the notion that there is no perfection—that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything.
On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.
~ Leonard Cohen
Listen to it and work on the lyrics here! You’ll love to sing along with this tune!
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/06/the-top-10-most-popular-hallelujah-renditions-on-youtube/
One more phrasal verb to add to our list!
1: to put information into blank spaces: to provide missing information
I spent over two hours filling in the application form.
Fill in the missing words.
—sometimes used figuratively
2: to provide one’s own conclusion
He would not tell me the whole story of the argument, and I was left to fill in the blanks for myself.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fill%20in%20the%20blanks
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/fill-in_1