F2F Class Notes 24th October (Tanya)

8 years  (plural) – 8 years

Foreigners (pronunciation)

Travelling – going to different places

e.g. Timothy wants to travel to the United States of America.

Where else do you want to go? = What other places do you want to go?

Freezing – when it’s under zero degrees

e.g. Harbin, where Timothy is from, is freezing cold.

Minus ten degrees – temperature is ten degrees below zero

e.g. The average temperature in Harbin in winter is minus 10 degrees.

Rehearse – when you repeat something to learn from it (practice)

e.g. When actors rehearse a play, they know it much better.

Colleagues – people you work with (coworkers)

e.g. Timothy works for a optical engineering company. All his colleagues are optical engineers.

Specialty – what you’re good at

e.g. Timothy is an optical engineer, his specialty is engineering lenses.

Vacation – when you don’t have to go to work

e.g. People in China have a full week of vacation during the first week of October (golden week).

Subtitles – the written words of the spoken words on the screen during a movie

e.g. When Timothy watches American movies, he watches them with Chinese subtitles.

Big Bang Theory (pronunciation)