Tuesday, 30 September 2014

After Speaking - Things We Didn’t Know How To Say At All Or Totally Confidently

motivate - inspire - encourage -

thoughts vs feelings
feelings - intuition - my gut / go with my gut -

a cigarette butt - a butt = the end of a cigarette.
You can’t smoke here! Butt out your cigarette, but don’t throw the butt on the ground!

life - lives
life (n) E.G. It’s important to do in our lives.
live (v) (lihv) E.G. Don’t kill me! I want to live!
live (adj) (liyv) E.G. I prefer live theatre to movies.
alive (adj) = living. E.G. You’re still alive? I thought you were dead!

I prefer live theatre to movies.
I prefer live theatre more than movies.


convenient (adj) = easy to use / to buy / to do / etc.
comfortable (adj) = feels good.

fast food is an example of comfort food.
comfort food = borscht.

deforestation
soil erosion

red tide
(green) algae (AEL-dgee)

the food chain
a predator




Best Way To Remember Vocabulary
Learn and then use. Be a child.


Other Reading Material
Get ESL readers, which are famous novels written for different levels of English. You can buy them at Chapters.

Read anything that you like. As long as you’re enjoying yourself, you’ll be learning.

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