F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Try to explain why…?   For these sentences.

You may need to use the dictionary.com or learnersdictionary.com

and…

use yahoo.com to serch for phrases you can’t find, eg: “take a lead”

• After taking a big lead, the team coasted to victory.
• He was accused of trying to coast through school.
• She decided she could coast along without a job for the next few months.
• The company is coasting on its good reputation.

Vocabulary

Questions:

Are you a good painter?

I’m the middle.

I’m not bad

I’m not a bad painter.

Do you ever talk to yourself?

no, I’m not

no, I don’t talk to myself.

why speak to myself? – why would I talk to myself?

last class we spoke about food. / we talked about food

I have need to take 4 tests

I still need to take 2 tests.

diary – a book where you can write your feelings and thoughts.

eg: Sometimes I can write some words in my diary.

another – one other

eg: I don’t wanna share it with another person.

other – many

eg: I don’t wanna share it with other people.

private (ADJ.) – something you don’t share with or tell other people.

eg: There are some of my private thoughts in my diary.

coast – 1. to roll, on sth. like a bike or car. without using any energy or power.  2. to move forward using no power or very little power.

eg: We need to ride our bikes up this part, then we can coast down the other part.

eg: I will just coast through that class, it’s so easy.

eg: She decided she could coast along without a job for the next few months.