10/06/2022

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 10/06/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Free Talking
Topic: Have you ever…
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶deny /duh-nide/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌deny (verb) - to say that something is not true; to not admit that you have knowledge, responsibility, feelings, etc.

Example: Neil denies that he broke the window, but I'm sure he did.

📌approach (verb) - to come near or nearer to something or someone in space, time, quality, or amount

Example: If you look out of the window on the left, you'll see that we're now approaching the Eiffel Tower.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: I tried to think in a good way.
✔Better say: I tried to think positively / I tried to look on the bright side / I tried to be optimistic (about it).

✖You said: Some young people came too close to me (...) I wanted to send them. After sending them away, I had come to know that my smartphone was gone.
✔Better say: Some young people approached me (...) I wanted to send them away. After sending them away, I realized/noticed that my smartphone was gone.

✖You said: It was been 3 days after buying it.
✔Better say: It had only been 3 days since I bought it.

✖You said: They don‘t say the truth. They say they didn’t know about my phone.
✔Better say: They denied stealing my phone and pretended they didn’t know anything about 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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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Issue 02 Good Habits and Bad - Express Yourself  #6 (page 21)