VOCABULARY cool - cool, super, 'spoko' to wait - czekać to hear - słyszeć to need - potrzebować sneakers - adidasy, tenisówki bolt - bolec to cost - kosztować you were saying? - co powiedziałeś? online - tu: elektroniczny, komputerowy to purchase - kupić, nabyć to save - (za)oszczędzić fast moving - szybko poruszający się, zaganiany stressful - stresujący society - społeczeństwo modern - tu: współczesny to suggest - sugerować pleasure - przyjemność relaxation - relaks slang expression - wyrażenie slangowe to chill out - wyluzować się, zrelaksować to mean - znaczyć take it easy - nie przejmuj się laid back - wyluzowany unstressed - nie zestresowany, bez stresów feeling - odczucie, wrażenie; tu: konotacje attitude - postawa, nastawienie to enjoy life - cieszyć się życiem to express enthusiasm - wyrażać entuzjazm

LESSON 23
Cool

IBM TV ad:
A: Wait until you hear this. This is so cool.
B: Cool?
A: Cool!
B: Cool is why my son needs new sneakers every month. Cool is why my
daughter’s hair is green and her boyfriend has a bolt through his nose.
Cool costs me money. Cool! …You were saying?
A: This online purchasing system could save us millions
B: Millions? …Cool!

Tony Thorne:
I think the word 'cool' is so popular in Britain today, because in a very fast
moving, stressful society like modern Britain, it suggests pleasure and it
suggests relaxation. There are other slang expressions like, ‘to chill out’,
meaning to take it easy, and ‘laid back’, meaning relaxed and unstressed, that
have the same sort of feeling. But more than this, I think it suggests an
attitude, the idea that we in Britain ought to learn to relax more, to enjoy life
and to express our enthusiasm, too.

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	Lesson 23

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OBJAŚNIENIA

we ought to learn to relax more – powinniśmy nauczyć się bardziej
relaksować

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