Friday, September 27, 2024

Short Notice


 Chilliwack, British Columbia. View of a pond from the window. 



Let’s check the homework. BTW, Patrick Cowsill

Notice: look at; pay attention to

Featured: emphasized; shown

It’s pretty short notice: why didn’t you tell me before? I need more time

Whether: if

Up for that: Do you want to do that?

You sound a little down: sad, depressed, a little blue

I thank my lucky stars: I am lucky

I just can’t stand the guy: I don’t like that man; I hate that guy

Alternative: another way; a different way to do it

Awful: bad, terrible, sucks, no good

Brainstorm: think of ideas

Figure it out: understand; know, etc.

1. I just can’t stand the guy: I hate him; I dislike him, etc.

I will choose the students randomly.

Do NOT use sign language to talk to your teacher.

 

It’s up to you:

You can go vertically. You go horizontally. You can go diagonally. You can go backward(s).

Toward / towards

The elephant in Chinese chess goes diagonally.

Do you like Korean food?

What kind of Korean food do you like?

Please use a sentence when you talk in this class to practice grammar. If they say YES with a sentence, write down his/her name. If NO, do NOT write.

Have you ever been to Seoul?

Yes, I have been to Seoul.

Ever is only in the question, not answer.

Why did you go there?

I went there to look at pretty women.

State it: talk, say

Spouse: husband or wife: married

Superficial: shallow

Top

Bottom

Corner

Kimchi is not bad.

Do you want a chicken burrito or a beef burrito?

 

Spouse: husband or wife

Siblings: brothers and sisters

How many brothers and sisters do you have? = How many siblings do you have?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please write down your partner’s answers in English, NOT Chinese.

 

 

1. Yang Ming Mountain is a dormant (sleeping) volcano.

If a volcano erupts within 10,000 years, it is a dormant and not extinct volcano.

2. The police use German shepherds because these dogs are easy to train. They are smart.

3. Vampires don’t like garlic.

4. The smartphone distracts

 

 me because it has messages and gossip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listening Practice:

I will talk. Write down what I say. If you don’t understand, ask:

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell ______?

Difficult    Distractions

What happened…?   Trampoline

Gorilla

 

 

 

 

 

Difficult    Distractions

 

What happened…?   Trampoline

Gorilla

 

 

 

 

1.          Perhaps the most difficult thing the human being is called upon to face is long, concentrated thinking.

Is called upon: must

 

3.          A hundred years later and the problem has only gotten worse.

 

Get/got/gotten

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wood (n)    Wooden (adj)

What happened…?  20%

Trampoline        Gorilla   Genre

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distractions   Wood (n)   Wooden (adj)    Helmet    What happened…?   Trampoline

Genre: kind of movie or book: science fiction, comedy, cartoon, romance, etc.   Gorilla

 

Gotten worse

Multi-tasking: do many jobs at the same time

 

 

 

 

 

Rules: Write down your partner’s answer in English.

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