10/13/2022

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 10/13/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Free Talking
Topic: Superstitions
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶crow /krow/
▶bouquet /bow-kay/
▶jinx /jingks/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌jinx (noun) - bad luck, or a person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck

Example: There must be a jinx on our team – four of our best players were injured yesterday.

📌jinx (verb) - to cause a person or group to experience bad luck

Example: I thought we would win, but I didn't say so – I didn't want to jinx it.

📌superstitions (houn) - a belief or way of behaving that is based on fear of the unknown and faith in magic or luck : a belief that certain events or things will bring good or bad luck

Examples:
It is a common superstition that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck.
According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
I don't believe in the old superstition that the number 13 is unlucky.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: There was an issue which I need to look through.
✔Better say: There was an issue (which) I needed to look into / to take care of.

✖You said: Failing join to the service could be an issue for our company.
✔Better say: Customers failing to join the service could be an issue for our company.

✖You said: When finishing the wedding, the bride toss the bouquet to one of her friends. The person who got the bouquet, if she doesn’t get married in 3 months, she will be single for 3 years.
✔Better say: At the end of a wedding ceremony / After the wedding, the bride tosses the bouquet to one of her friends/ to a group of single women. Whoever catches the bouquet must be married in 3 months or else she will be single for 3 years.
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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: Article English
Title: Indonesia football stadium disaster: police chief sacked as investigation launched
Website: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/indonesia-football-tragedy-questions-mount-over-police-response