11/09/2022

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 11/09/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Opinion Samples 1-2 (page 22)
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶acquisition /ak-wuh-zish-uhn/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌sleep in (phrasal verb) - to sleep until later in the morning than you usually do

Example: I usually sleep in on Saturdays.

📌sidetrack (verb) - to direct a person's attention away from an activity or subject towards another one that is less important

Example: My phone tends to sidetrack me when I am trying to work, so I put it away to keep myself from being distracted.

📌for the sake of it (idiom) - for no particular reason

Example: We drove around town just for the sake of it.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: Even though I keep for some time, I didn’t get that as a habit.
✔Better say: Even though I kept doing it for some time/ for a while, it didn’t form into a habit.

✖You said: 16 or 17 years since I went last time there.
✔Better say: It has been 16 or 17 years since I last went there.

✖You said: I should look back about my performance and need to more present to communicate with her.
✔Better say: I should look back on my performance and (need to) communicate more with her.
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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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