F2F Class Notes 28th November (Tanya)
Vocabulary
In general – usually
e.g. In general, do you like to read?
Beefy – 肉肉
e.g. Mr. Dursley was a big, beefy man.
Mustache – 胡å above your lip
Beard – 胡å under your lip
Facial hair – 胡å
Charity – when you give money to organisations who will distribute it to people in need
e.g. Movember is a charity.
To crane –Â to stick out your neck (usually in order to see something better)
e.g. I had to crane my neck to see what was going on on stage
Good-for-nothing – expression: “there’s nothing that you’re good for”, very bad
e.g. The students thought all the homework was good-for-nothing!
To hit it off – to immediately get along very well
e.g. Allison and her husband immediately hit it off.
Siblings – a brother or a sister
e.g. A lot of siblings fight with each other when they’re young.
A grey Tuesday – means the weather was grey, very cloudy
e.g. This last Tuesday was very grey.
To hum – to quietly sing in yourself
e.g. I was humming on my way to work today!
To chuckle or to chortle – to laugh quietly
e.g. I made a bad joke at the party but my friend still chuckled a little bit.
To throw a tantrum – to suddenly become very unreasonably angry
e.g. Little kids don’t know how to control their emotions and often throw tantrums.
Peculiar – strange
e.g. I saw a guy dressed like a horse on the subway today. That was pretty peculiar.
To jerk your head around – to turn your head around very fast
e.g. IÂ walked past the guy dressed like a horse and I jerked my head around to watch him a little longer.
Getup – slang for outfit
e.g. The guy in the subway was wearing a weird getup.
Weirdo – someone who is weird or strange
e.g. The guy in the subway dressed as a horse was a weirdo.
Corrections
Eating breakfast, she doesn’t want to eat – When eating breakfast, she doesn’t want to eat
Pronunciation
wrestled – res eld
dullÂ
chuckle – tsjuk el
peculiar – pe q li er
excitedly – eks i ted lee
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