VIP Class Notes (Celeste)

Read the article below and discuss in your next class.

New York’s Hot Dogs 

One man said that Nathan’s Hot Dogs is like the Empire State Building or the Brooklyn Bridge. They are all something very typical of the New York City.

New York’s famous hot dogs have been celebrating 100 years of history and in no ordinary fashion. People made a world record attempt for the longest continuous line of hot dogs by laying out Nathan’s Hot dogs.

They laid out 1,916 buns in total, which was stretching to an impressive 292 meters. People set the previous record in Tokyo by 34 metres.

Difficult words: attempt (a try), continuous (forming one thing, connected), stretch (exist over an area), impressive (awesome).

immune to sth/sb = I can handle sth

Vocabulary

A lot of my Korean friends live there (in Korea Town). = Many of my friends live there.

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I want to go to the hair salon.

I want to go get a hair cut. 

I need a hair cut. 

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It’s a waste of money to go to an expensive hair salon.

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I know what I like and where to get it, I am not adventurous.

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raise your hand before you speak
raise prices every year

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The hairstylist/hair dresser comes to our house once a month.

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I have never gotten a buzz cut. 

Grammar

small, smaller, smallest
eg. The dog is small.
eg. My dog, Achi, is smaller than that dog.
eg. His son is the smallest in school.
eg. The dog is small, the cat is smaller and the bird is the smallest.

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big, bigger, the biggest
eg. The lion is big, the elephant is bigger,  and the dragon is the biggest. 

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old, older, the oldest
eg. Your mom is old, your dad is older, and my grandfather is the oldest.

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young, younger, the youngest
eg. I am young, my sister is younger, and my cousin is the youngest.