07/13/2022

💎Student's Name: Soojeong Yeom
💎Date: 07/13/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Lifestyles - Express yourself #9 (page 9)
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶carbohydrate /kahr-boh-hai-dreyt/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌on the dot (idiom) - exactly at the stated or expected time

Example: The plane landed at two o'clock on the dot.

📌 pouring (adjective) - If you say about the weather that it is pouring, you mean that it is raining heavily

Examples: You’d better take an umbrella – it’s pouring out there / Don't go out into the pouring rain.

📌 vibe (noun) - the mood or character of a place, situation, or piece of music

Examples: The music has a soothing vibe.

📌 atmosphere (noun) - the character, feeling, or mood of a place or situation

Examples: There's a very relaxed atmosphere in our office.

📌 tempting (adjective) - If something is tempting, you want to do or have it; having an appeal

Examples: That pie looks very tempting.

📌 carbs (noun) - short term for carbohydrates

Examples: Studies have indicated a low-carb diet can pose heart and kidney risks.

📌 gory (adjective) - involving violence and blood

Examples: I’m afraid most operations look pretty gory.

📌 slice of life (phrase) - an example of what ordinary life is like : something (such as a story or movie) that shows what ordinary life is like.

Examples: The story presents a slice of life in a small Midwestern town.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: Today was strong rainy.
✔Better say: We experienced heavy rain / It was raining so hard today / It was pouring with rain.

✖You said: I am too on time.
✔Better say: I am always on the dot.

✖You said: If there is some accident or some event on my way, sometimes I’m late for the appointment.
✔Better say: If something unexpected happens, I’ll be late for the appointment.

✖You said: I don’t choose to buy it.
✔Better say: I choose not to buy it.
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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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Course: Free Talking
Book: Movies