6/27/2022

💎Student's Name: Soojeon Yeom
💎Date: 6/27/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Website: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/06/business/four-day-week-trial-uk/index.html
Title: The world's biggest four-day work week pilot begins
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶ edge /ej/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌 summerhouse (noun) - a country house for summer residence

Example: They have a summer house on the lake.

📌 call (verb) - to make a request or demand

Example: call for an investigation

📌 gather steam (verb) - this is an idiom meaning that something gains momentum, or increases its speed or progress

Example: The campaign quickly gathered steam.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: Some workers don’t want to make their work time lower.
✔Better say: Some workers don’t want to work lesser hours / Some workers don’t want their work hours to be reduced/decreased

✖You said: When you talk normal chat…
✔Better say: When you talk casually…
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🔴 Homework:

Please take note of this lesson and apply what you learned in your future conversations.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate
Book: Express Yourself 1
Topic and Page: Lifestyles (page 9)
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WEEKLY REPORT
In our lessons, you are able to use a wide range of vocabulary and choose words that are appropriate to the topic. This allows you to talk about different subjects with ease and give meaningful answers to questions. If you have extra time on your hands, I encourage you to watch videos or listen to podcasts or audio books in English to increase your exposure to the language. This will be helpful in building your vocabulary, learning new idioms and sentence patterns,  as well as familiarizing yourself with different accents. Keep up the good work, Sujeong!