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CPEaking Club 3 - Coggle Diagram
CPEaking Club 3
Art/Creativity
S16. Creativity
- to have a (huge) vested interest in
- the mind goes into imaginative overdrive - переходить в состояние повышенной активности
- to cultivate creativity - развивать VS to tame creativity
- (schools) punish students for exercising their imagination
- to channel imaginative activity into templates
- our contemporary education systematically ruthlessly squanders talent and stigmatises mistakes - проматывать/безрассудно тратить
- think out of/outside the box; take an outside-the-box approach
- have a one-track mind / be narrow-minded
- break the mould
- be ahead of/behind the curve
- creativity can spur out of the blue and has no destination point
- creativity can be fueled by any resources apart from logic or order
- a sure-fire way how to achieve a result
- use someone as a sounding board - подумать об кого-то
- a new lease of life - become more energetic
S15. Why art matters?
- is open to interpretation (A is hard/difficult to pinpoint)
- (the world would be) a dull place devoid of imagination
- otherwise we would be confined to a reality bound by time
- A is a subtle power/a form of soft power
- A advocates difference/freedom
- fosters dialogue, reconciliation (примирение), solidarity, etc.
- A can crack open cemented opinions
- A testifies to the power of imagination (свидетельствует о; f)
- A promts you to ask questions
- highlights important ideas, problems and issues which are sidelined or silenced
Memories
S14. Childhood memories
- children are more susceptible to forming false memories
Verbs:
- to conjure up /to trigger
(memories of the past)
- to evoke (bittersweet) memories
- to stir up (sth unpleasant)
- Your letters sparked (off) so many happy memories in me.
- be etched on your heart/memory/mind (Her wirds will -/- on my memory for the rest of my life.)
- to bury (unpleasant memories)
- to erase x - стереть из памяти
- to blot out (~ memories; the image of; the terrifying events of the day) - to deliberately try to forget an unpleasant memory or thought
Looking back at the past
- to take a walk/stroll down memory lane
- to hark back (to your childhood/to how things used to be) + sth harks back to (the style of the 80s = reminds)
- a flicker of memory/hope
- memories come flooding back/eat up at sb
Adjectives
Positive
- In the course of time all, even the most vivid memories, tend to fade.
- bittersweet
- cherished
- treasured
- nostalgic
Negative
- haunting (memories)
- traumatic (~ of the catastrophe)
- disturbing
Duration
- fleeting (short; quick)
- short-term/long-term (lasting) memory
Other
- fuzzy and indistinct
- (people can) generate disturbingly rich false memories
S13. Tolerance & Respect
- to show extra help
- bristle at the offer of help (become very annoyed or offended)
- it's a non-judgemental area
- We've been out and about talking to people all over the country. + to be active after an illness
- an onerous duty/task/responsibility (burdensome; f) - изнурительный
- to feel despondent about - sad, without much hope (There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.) - впадать в уныние
- the last straw that breaks the camel's back
- An egalitarian society is a society where all individuals are born equal.
- He is often disparaged by the critics./I don't mean to disparage your achievements. (sb/sth is not important or good)
- Some people believe that television can pervert the minds of children. (negatively affect)