Why so Glum?

Negative means “no.”

Driving me crazy: I don’t like it.  

Stew is soup with meat.

We eat soup in English because we use a

spoon.

Awesome: great, fantastic, terrific, good, wonderful

Isn’t that a shame: terrible, bad

Allergic to: your skin gets itchy

Addict: like a smoker, they can’t stop

We do NOT drink soup. We eat soup.

Student A: read the sentence

Student B: write all of the sentence down under the picture

the sentence describes

Reiterate: say again so you don’t forget

How do you pronounce    ?

1. Entrée: main dish/cours (steak, pasta, chicken)

2. Mashed Potatoes

3. Salmon: “l” is silent

4. Cashier: person you pay the money to

5. Chatted: talked

6. Maitre D’ = French borrow word; The man who

works at the front door in a restaurant.

7. Drumsticks: chicken leg

8. Raw: not cooked

9. Chicken thigh: bigger

In detail: give a lot of information; explain a lot

He is not a waiter.

It tastes bland: almost no flavor, like water or rice

bread, etc.

It tastes tangy: sweet and sour together, like

BBQ sauce

It tastes greasy or oily

Ingredients

Oden: fish

Cabbage

 

 

Sweet potato: yam

Omelet

Tuna

 

Listening practice:

1.              Could you please repeat that?

2.              How do you spell    ?

Teach taught

Lesson: learn something

Kitchen

 

Zone out: space out

 

Hawaii  Oahu  Hawaiian food

Ingredients    popular

Urgency

 

 

 

 

 

In detail: give a lot of information; tell a lot

Writing is 10% of your grade. We have to do it once every semester. I gave you a score. If you fix the mistakes, I will give you a higher score.

1.  I explained many times a paragraph is five or more sentences. With two or three sentences, you did not develop / explain your idea. Many of you still wrote paragraphs that were NOT five or more sentences. Please fix them.

2.  I explained many times about spacing before punctuation. This is punctuation:  , . ? ! “ ; : …

Do NOT do this. Please fix this.

3.  This is a university. We do NOT use contractions in formal writing. Contractions are for speaking. They are for talking. They are not for writing. Here are some examples of contractions. He is – He’s, They are – they’re

4.  This is a logical problem more than a writing problem. Absolute statement.

Jadi always eats at McDonald’s. She loves to eat the chicken burger. We don’t always do anything. Jadi never speaks French. She does not understand the language.

Avoid absolute statements in writing because they are NOT logical. How do we fix it?

Jadi usually/often/normally/regularly eats there.

If you did NOT come to class, write a story now about your favorite foreign restaurant and the restaurant you hate the most. Come get some paper from me. This is 10% of your grade. IMPORTANT.

It is a quarter past 11: 11:15

I will skim first for the new words.

Notice: pay attention or see, look at

I’m not in the mood: I don’t want to do it; I don’t feel like it

Glum: sad; unhappy, depressed

Gossip: talk about other people when they are not there

1. It was a dead giveaway: I knew your secret; it is easy to know what is going on

2. Definitely: for sure; absolutely; 100%

Employee: worker

Employer: boss

Cut it out: stop doing that

Stand up for yourself: protect yourself

1.  Ethics: what other people want you to do, law, rules

For example, you cannot steal or kill

2.  Morality: the rules you make for yourself

3.  Personality: character (traits)

4.  Psychology: what is happening in your brain

Honest: true; the “h” is silent

Reliable: always do it

Loyal: never leave your husband or wife; we will say the dog is a loyal animal

Fair: treat everyone the same; the teacher should try to be fair to the students

Provide: give

Listening Practice

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell   ?