12/22/2022

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 12/22/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Free Talking
Topic: Christmas and the holidays
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶predominantly / pri-dom-uh-nuhnt-lee/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌predominantly (adverb) - mostly or mainly

Example: She is predominantly a dancer, but she also sings.

📌put up (phrasal verb) - to build something

Example: We're going to put up a new fence around our garden.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: When I was younger, I met my friends from some point. Most of my friends got married and they spend their time with their parents and kids. WHen I was younger, I used to met my friends for the Christmas day. But from some point, I spend Christmas day alone or with my parent.
✔Better say: When I was younger, I used to meet my friends on Christmas day. But ever since most of them got married, they’ve been spending Christmas with their (own) families. Since then, I’ve spent Christmas alone or with my parents.

✖You said: I’m just staying at home and spend leisure time for myself. But most of my friends or other people, make Christmas tree with their children.
✔Better say: I just stay at home and spend my leisure time by myself / spend time leisurely by myself. But most people with families put up Christmas trees with their children.

✖You said: At the end of the day on the end of the day of the year, I went out with my flatmate and we watched together the fireworks.
✔Better say: On the last day of the year, on New Year’s Eve, my flatmate and I went out and we watched the fireworks together.
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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: Article English
Title: 'Permacrisis' Is Collins Dictionary's Word of 2022
Link: https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/app/daily-news/article/permacrisis-is-collins-dictionarys-word-of-2022/-ILAUFuDEe2ZaocVQO1mFg

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