Wednesday, November 07, 2018

B2.2 7-11-18

p. 18
pri‧ma‧ry /ˈpraɪməri $ -meri/ ●●○ W2 AWL adjective   
1 [usually before noun] most important SYN main
- Our primary concern is to provide the refugees with food and health care.
- Many of the villagers rely on fishing as their primary source of income.
primary purpose/aim/objective
- Their primary objective is to make money.
- Personal safety is of primary importance.
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2 [only before noun] especially British English relating to the education of children between 5 and 11 years old SYN elementary American English → secondary
- a primary teacher
- primary education
- teaching at primary level
3 happening or developing before other things
- a primary tumour
- Counselling was given as a primary therapy for

sti‧let‧to /stəˈletəʊ $ -toʊ/ noun (plural stilettos or stilettoes) [countable]   
1 (also stiletto heel) a woman’s shoe that has a very high thin heel

Christ‧mas‧sy /ˈkrɪsməsi/ adjective   
typical of Christmas
 It looked very Christmassy with lights on the trees.

pardon/excuse my French
spoken used to say sorry for swearing


Girl #1: I totes want to go to the shoe store because I totes need to purchase new heels.
Girl #2: Totes! I totes need a new pair too so I'll totes go with you.

I’m dying of hunger (die)
I’m dying my hair (dye)

Tongue twisters
Seashells
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

He didn’t quite agree.

Unit 2
Education
Alternative education.

1- What did/didn’t you like about school and how you learnt things?
2- What do you think an alternative school is?
3- Watch a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIOmqt9klzk and discusss the methodology: Do you like it or not? Why?
You can also watch this video

ˌfloppy ˈdisk (also floppy) noun [countable]   
a square piece of plastic that you can store computer information on, and which you can remove from and put into a computer → hard disk


Homework: Reading activity p. 20-21

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