Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Seonggook Kim (Seonggook)
August 4, 2017 Friday
Pronunciation Practice:
*no mispronunciation
Vocabularies:
1. When did you ~ ?
Examples:
When did you get married?
When did you move to Seattle?
When did you lose all that weight?
When did you take the position?
Sentence Construction:
General Comments:
Examples:
1. Jim has been a mechanic for 20 years. He really knows his stuff.
2. She's an excellent teacher - she really knows her stuff.
3. If you have any questions you can ask John, he really knows his stuff.
Example:
1. Finely chop the cabbage and cook it in boiling salted water.
Next, add the chopped onions.
2. Don�t chop any more wood; we�ve got enough.
3. They had to chop some grass so they can go through the forest.
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Hello Seonggook,
Thanks for the questions this morning. Like what I told you, it's okay to ask me
questions. That's better because we can share our ideas better and have a good
conversation.
-Jeryl
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Notice to the Admin:
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Wook Soo Shin (Alex)
August 4, 2017 Friday
Pronunciation Practice:
*no mispronunciation
Vocabularies:
1. impose - to officially force a rule, tax, punishment, etc. to be obeyed or
received
Example:
Very high taxes have recently been imposed on cigarettes.
Judges are imposing increasingly heavy fines for minor driving offences.
The council has imposed a ban on alcohol in the city parks.
2. execute - to kill someone as a legal punishment
Example:
He was executed for murder.
Sentence Construction:
You said: My opinion we can reduced the criminality using hard punishment from the
law.
Better say: We can reduce the criminality by imposing hard punishments.
You said: In Korea if somebody did criminmalty hardly they could be killed by then
government but from 10 years executed because national human right association they
recommended to the government that to stop killing by law so nothing is executed.
Better say: In Korea if somebody committed a heinous crime they will be given a
death sentence but fot 10 years no one was executed because national human right
association recommended to the government to stop the execution.
You said: After he being a president of the country, I heard from news he checked
every drug dealer and he checked and pushed the police about the drug things. many
drug delaers was died by the law.
Better say: When he became the president of the country, I heard from the news he
had drug dealers investigated and many drug dealers died from police operations.
You said: It could make unhappy a person who has many houses.
Better say: It can make a person who has many houses unhappy.
General Comments:
IDIOM OF THE DAY
know your stuff
Examples:
1. Jim has been a mechanic for 20 years. He really knows his stuff.
2. She's an excellent teacher - she really knows her stuff.
3. If you have any questions you can ask John, he really knows his stuff.
Example:
1. Finely chop the cabbage and cook it in boiling salted water.
Next, add the chopped onions.
2. Don�t chop any more wood; we�ve got enough.
3. They had to chop some grass so they can go through the forest.
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Hello Alex,
Thanks for having time today Alex. I know you're always busy.
Pronunciation Practice:
electricity - [i-lek-tri-si-tee]
Sentence Construction:
You said: I'm very curious where Singapore get their resource.
Better say: I'm very curious where Singapore get its resources.
You said: When they showed the Malaysian price in the market, they were surprised.
Better say: When they saw the Malaysian price in the market, they were surprised.
General Comments:
IDIOM OF THE DAY
know your stuff
Examples:
1. Jim has been a mechanic for 20 years. He really knows his stuff.
2. She's an excellent teacher - she really knows her stuff.
3. If you have any questions you can ask John, he really knows his stuff.
Example:
1. Finely chop the cabbage and cook it in boiling salted water.
Next, add the chopped onions.
2. Don�t chop any more wood; we�ve got enough.
3. They had to chop some grass so they can go through the forest.