F2F Class Notes 19th December (Tanya)
Vocabulary
to brood – when animals sit on their eggs to hatch them
e.g. Birds brood their eggs.
peacock – blue bird with big beautiful feathers
e.g. Only the male peacocks have beautiful feathers.
to peacock –Â you’re displaying yourself very ostentatiously
e.g. Models basically have to peacock down a runway.
ostentatious –Â very obvious, not subtle
e.g. A male peacock’s feathers are very ostentatious.
hyphen or dash – this sign –
e.g. at Smart English, we write our vocab word, followed by a hyphen and the meaning of the word in English.
to hyphenate – to put a hyphen
e.g. A lot of words need hyphenating, e.g. throw-back.
aquarium – fish tank
e.g. We have an aquarium at home with a lot of fish in it.
guppy – baby fish
e.g. Tanya once had guppies but they all died.
emotional rollercoaster – to feel a lot of emotions very quickly after each other, a experience a lot of ups and downs
e.g. After Tanya’s fish gave birth to guppies, she was really happy. Then the day after, they all died. Talk about an emotional rollercoaster.
exotic – foreign- or strange-looking
e.g. Allison had a lot of exotic and colorful fish in her tank.
documentary – informative movie
e.g. There’s a lot of documentaries about fish.
Corrections
I see a video of this – I saw a video of this
There was many equipment – There was a lot of equipment.
Pronunciation
creature – kre tur
horizontally – horizontally
genes – jeans
unusual –Â un yu syu al
hyphenated – hi fen ated
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