Vocabulary: bake

I could smell bread baking in the oven.

Vocabulary: aperitif

I like to drink an aperitif before eating a barbecue in Sundays.

Vocabulary: peace

Vocabulary: barbecue

Let's have a barbecue in my apartment.

Vocabulary: beat

Beat the eggs and sugar together.

Vocabulary: broccoli

I like eat broccoli.

Vocabulary: brakes

You can't build cars with bad brakes.

Vocabulary: extinct

What would you think if someone told you that an animal or a bird was about to become extinct?

Vocabulary: animal

Many types of animals are in danger of becoming extinct.

Vocabulary: bite

She took a big bite of the apple.

Vocabulary: threaten

Many types of animals are in danger to becoming extinct.  Saving them sometimes means closing the business that threaten them.

Vocabulary: guns

Guns kill people every day.

Vocabulary: against

It's against the law to make unsafe products in Brazil.

Vocabulary: useful

Learning English is useful for work and leave better.

Vocabulary: usurp

Too much information can leave anyone feeling usurped.

Vocabulary: likewise

When children learn a language, they learn both words and phrases together. Likewise, you need to study and learn phrases.

Vocabulary: constrain

The company's growth has been constrained by high taxes.

Vocabulary: aid

I'm deaf and I use a hearing aid since I was a child.

Vocabulary: administrative

Where is the administrative office?

Vocabulary: adapt

The bus was adapted for disabled people.

Vocabulary: acquire

She acquired a master level of English after hours of study.

Vocabulary: benefit

Vocabulary: affect

Vocabulary: aggregate

Vocabulary: brief

Vocabulary: adult

Vocabulary: advocate

Vocabulary: shrink

My T-shirt shrank when I washed it in wash machine.

2017 message

Don't let anyone push you around in 2017.
This is your year.
You are going to do great things.
You are going to stop feeling guilty.
You are going to stop sacrificing your happiness and goals to others.
Instead you are going to go out and do the things you've always wanted to do while your doubters sit on the sidelines and say " I can't believe it!"