04/10/2023

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 04/10/2023
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Tokyo ramen shop bans customers from using their phones while eating
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/tokyo-debu-chan-smartphone-ban-intl-hnk/index.html
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶piping /pai-ping/
▶chubby /chuh-bee/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌piping hot (adjective, adverb) -  piping hot food or drinks are very hot

Example: The soup was piping hot when it arrived at the table.

📌chubby (adjective) -  fat in a pleasant and attractive way

Example: The little girl had a round, chubby face and big brown eyes.

📌take matters into own hands (idiom) - to deal with a problem yourself because the people who should have dealt with it have failed to do so

Example: When the police failed to catch her son's murderer, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said:  I start to follow him when I see him in one news program.
✔Better say: I started following him when I saw him in a news program.

✖You said: He do whatever he do.
✔Better say: He does whatever he does.

✖You said: Korean culture start to known very fast and wider
✔Better say: Korean culture started to become widely known at a fast pace. // Korean culture rapidly became known globally.

✖You said: They want to focus on their ramen.
✔Better say: They want people/customers to focus on their ramen/food.
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🔴 Homework:
Please take note of what you learned in this lesson and apply it in your future conversations.
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