08/22/2022

💎Student's Name: Soojeong Yeom
💎Date: 08/22/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Does your social circle measure up? Survey finds average adult has 10 good friends
Website: https://studyfinds.org/average-adult-10-good-friends/
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶commission /kuh-mish-uhn/
▶inflatable /in-fley-tuh-buhl/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌inflate (verb) - to make something increase in size by filling it with air

Example: He inflated the balloons with helium.

📌inflatable (adjective) - able to be inflated

Example:  The children were playing on the inflatable castle.

📌social circle (noun) - a group of people who are socially connected.

Example: For many, their immediate 'social circle' comprises friends from the educational institutions where they studied, colleagues at their work place, or even neighbours.

📌measure up (phrasal verb) - to be good enough, or as good as someone or something else

Example: If new staff measure up after six months, they are offered a permanent contract.

📌commission (verb) - to formally choose someone to do a special piece of work, or to formally ask for a special piece of work from someone

Example: She's commissioned an artist to paint her portrait.

📌float (noun) - a toy animal or other object that is filled with air and played with or sat on in swimming pools

Example: A pool float has now become a holiday essential.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: It is easier to pronunciate than “baji.”
✔Better say: It is easier to pronounce than “baji.”

✖You said: I wish it would be more better if we did jiu jitsu.
✔Better say: It would’ve been better if we did jiu jitsu.

✖You said: We became friend from kindergarten and we are keeping touch current time.
✔Better say: We became friends in kindergarten and we still keep in touch (up to this day).

✖You said: If I count friends who I feel close from each group, it can be 10.
✔Better say: If I count my close friends from each group, it can reach 10 / they are around 10.
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🔴 Homework:
Please prepare for our next class.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Lifestyles - Read & Discuss Questions #3 (page 12)