F2F Class Notes (Aurimar)

Today we focused on:

Talking about holidays

Cruise, cultural, spa, beach holidays

Vocabulary

*Exotic: of a distant foreign country, difficult to find, rare, special.

*Cuisine: a method of cooking, perhaps local food.

*Currency: a system of money in general use in a particular country. The money they use in different countries

*Immigration officer, security, gate  (review)

Grammar

*Is there a country you would like to visit? ~ Would: a modal verb that invites or makes an offer to do something.

I work in this building. So, I have studied English here since (when?)~ Here we use present perfect because Sally is talking about a situation that started in the past and continues in the present.

*I told Lee ~ Simple past tense

*What to talk about… ~ “Talk about” is a phrasal verb, it means to say words in order to express one’s thoughts, feelings, opinions, etc., about something.

Speaking exercise

Pretty good pronunciation.

Let’s keep practicing to improve fluency.