Online Class Notes (Joe)

Pronunciation

Flashlight – ‘flash’ has the ‘a’ from ‘apple’.

Disaster – di za sti

Module – mo (like the ‘o’ from ‘top’), due (with the ‘u’ from beautiful), wil

layer – lai yi (use the ‘y’ from ‘yellow’ in the second part)

Vocabulary

bruise (noun) moretón
I have a bruise on my arm

something takes up all my time – I’m busy because of something
Studying takes up all my time

expert (noun) – somoene who knows a lot about a subject
I’m an expert in photography

novice (noun) – the opposite of expert
I’m a novice cook

put something on the backburner – avoid doing something because other things are more important now
I will put my homework on the backburner while I prepare dinner