Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Cities & People

Lesson Notes August 15, 2023 (Vocabulary Building)

• We can use “in-laws” when talking about your spouses family, especially the parents

• During Oban I visited my in-laws’ house and grave to tidy them both up.

• During the holidays, we send our kids to our in-laws’.

• This weekend, we are having dinner with my parents and in-laws. (= my parents and my spouses parents)

• There are various terms used to describe sports players available for team selection: roster, line-up, squad.

Cities & People

• A repairman

• A custodian; which is similar to “a janitor”

• A superintendent (the super)

Numbers

• Some English speakers use “and” between the hundreds and the tens; the comma (,) in written numbers does not mean “and”

• 310 = three hundred and ten

• 5,642 = five thousand, six hundred and forty-two

Ordinal Numbers (Pay attention to the use of “the”

• Dates have written and spoken forms; the written form varies from country to country

• August 15, 2023 = August the fifteenth, thousand (and) twenty-three

• The fifteenth of August

• Kings & Queens etc

• Henry VIII = Henry the Eighth

• Louis XIV = Louis the Fourteenth

• Floors

• I live on the fourth floor.

• His office is on the thirty-second floor.

• Rankings

• Tokyo is ranked first for world’s largest cities.

• Tokyo is first.

• My favourite baseball team came in second place.

• The second place team is my favourite baseball team.