02/21/2024

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 02/21/2024
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Points to Ponder 5-8 (page 87)
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌look (it) up (phrase): To search for information in a dictionary, book, or online source in order to find an answer or learn more about a topic.

Example sentence: When I didn't know the meaning of a word, my teacher always told me to look it up in the dictionary.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said:  I have been celebrating my birthday by Lunar New Year.
✔Better say: I have been celebrating my birthday according to the lunar calendar.

✖You said: My close friends knew my birthday using lunar calendar.
✔Better say: My close friends know my birthday according to the lunar calendar.

✖You said: From some point, I start to confuse.
✔Better say: At some point, I started to become confused.

✖You said: I'm gonna get it on next Monday.
✔Better say: I'm gonna get it on Monday. // I'm gonna get it next Monday.

✖You said: Some of my friends are still confusing.
✔Better say: Some of my friends are still confused.

✖You said: Sometimes there are people who take advantage from you.
✔Better say: Sometimes there are people who take advantage of you.

✖You said: Should I speak more loud?
✔Better say: Should I speak more loudly?

✖You said: You don't wait for having a good friend.
✔Better say:  You don't (have to) wait to have a good friend. // Don't wait to have a friend.

✖You said: Don't gossip them.
✔Better say: Don't gossip about them.
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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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