Feedback from Telephone English Day 20 (November 27, 2017 Monday)

Feedback from Telephone English Day 20 (November 27, 2017 Monday)

Today's Lesson:

Book - Can You Believe It 2

Unit 8. Man Dances at his own funeral (page 34)

Pronunciation Practice

1. funeral [FYOO-ner-uh l]

2. suddenly [suhd-nly]

3. dumbfounded [duhm-found did]

4. police [puh-LEES]

5. relatives [REL-uh-tivs]

Vocabulary Words

1. (as) dead as a doornail.

= completely dead

He is dead as a doornail.

2. feel blue

= to be sad

He feels blue whenever he heard that song.

3. all of a sudden

= suddenly

= unexpected

All of a sudden, a child appeared before me.

4. get over something

= to recover

That's what I do to get over from stress.

5. go crazy

= go bananas

They go crazy over the new movie.

6. rip someone or something off

= steal something

= steal from someone

I saw a woman getting ripped off by a thief.

7. turn into something

= to become something different

She would like to turn into a supermodel.

8. be on top of the world

= to feel very happy

He was on top of the world when he got married.

Sentence Construction

All of a sudden, child appears before me.

-> All of a sudden, a child appeared before me.

I want to be look like a million dollars.

-> I want to look like a million dollars. (Remove 'be')

When I was alone in the mountain, I got dumbfounded.

-> Being alone in the mountain makes me feel dumbfounded.

When the shipping of my electronics starts.

-> When the shipping of my electronic gadgets has started.

Quote of the day

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. (Albert Einstein)