Procrastinate (V): to delay
doing something until later, usually something that you do not want to do.
macmillandictionary.com
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B-Go over the list, check any necessary terms with
your dictionary and discuss whether you consider the activities mentioned as
good examples of procrastination? Which
ones would you say are not examples of procrastination? In which context?
· Procrastination is avoiding doing something · Procrastination is not being able to get started · It's reading a book · It's descaling a kettle · It's colour-coordinating your shelves · It's sharpening your pencil · Procrastination is spending thirty minutes looking for the right pen · It's spending ten minutes getting the right pen to work · Procrastination is making a cup of tea · Procrastination is finding the most difficult way of doing something · It's jumping from one idea...to another...to another · It's checking your e-mails... writing your e-mails · Procrastination is thesaurisizing words in your e-mails · Procrastination is making a cup of tea · Procrastination is staring at the window, it's... watching the neighbours · It's watching television · It's being unable to stop watching television · It's smoking a cigarette · It's doing the dishes · Procrastination is tidying your desk · It's creating...a fire-escape plan · Procrastination is rearranging your furniture · It's playing computer games · It's playing imaginary computer games with your furniture · Procrastination is pairing up your socks · It's writing thank you letters, · it's not writing thank you letters · Procrastination... is daydreaming · Procrastination is petting something · It's watering a plant · It's doodling · Procrastination is trying to grow a moustache · It's chasing a fly · It's chopping your pencil · It's doing eight things at once and not getting one done · Procrastination is taking a nap · Procrastination is getting drunk · It's scratching yourself · It's making a cup of tea · It's cutting your finger · It's oiling the bike · It is picking your nose · It's waiting for the postman · It's trying to avoid the inevitable · Procrastination is writing lists · It's not being able to decide what way to do something · It's overcomplicating things for yourself · It's being afraid to finish something · It's not knowing when to finish something · It's not knowing how to finish something |
Sloth (N) : 1.the quality or state of being lazy.
2.a type of
animal that lives in trees in South and Central America and that moves very
slowly.
Merryam
Webster
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The sloth is the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows
on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful
camouflage in the trees of its Central and South American rain forest home.
Sloths are identified by the number of long, prominent claws that they
have on each front foot. There are both two-toed and three-toed sloths.
All sloths are built for life in the treetops. They spend nearly all
of their time hanging from branches with a powerful grip aided by their long
claws. Though they are clumsy on land, sloths are surprisingly good swimmers.
They sometimes fall directly from rain forest trees into rivers and stroke efficiently with their long arms.
 Sloths sleep in trees, and they sleep a lot—some 15 to 20 hours every
day. Even when awake they often remain motionless. At night they eat leaves,
shoots, and fruit from the trees and get almost all of their water from juicy
plants. Trees are everything to them, they even mate and give birth while
hanging in the trees.
Source: nationalgeographic.com
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Wanna - used
in writing or speaking to represent the sound of the phrase want to when it
is spoken.
‘Cause - an
abbreviation of the word “because”.
Gonna - used
in writing or speaking to represent the sound of the phrase going to when it
is spoken quickly.
Loungin - to
sit or lie in a relaxed way.
Chillin - to
relax or to be calm.
Snuggie - A
long sleeved blanket.
Dougie - A
hip hop dance performed by moving one’s body in a shimmy.
Freakin’ -
Freaking (used as an adverb meaning “very”).
Ain’t - Ain’t
is usually regarded as an error, but it is common in the very informal speech
of some people and it is also used in informal and humorous phrases.
Pops - Dad or
father.
Birthday suit
- If you are wearing your birthday suit, you are naked.
Hang loose -
To be free and relaxed.
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dull indifferent lethargic passive sleepy tired drowsy indolent lifeless slothful slow-moving snoozy somnolent unindustrious
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bum around dally dilly-dally drag fool around
hang around hang out loiter procrastinate shlep
sit around sit on one's
butt warm a chair
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IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION
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DEFINITION
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1.Couch Potato
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A)Someone who enjoys working on computers
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2.Mouse potato
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B)Someone who feels lonely because the children are grown up and left
the family home.
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3.A person who gets “Cabin fever”
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C)Someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down,
watching television.
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4.Empty nester
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D)Someone who feels bored because of spending too much time inside the
house, especially in winter.
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Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) was a poet and musician known for children’s books such
as The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends and the poetry collection A Light in the Attic. His poems are
known by most American children and adults, because they are strange and
funny. His books include drawings by him.
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