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August 18, 2023 (FRIDAY ZOOM)

• We had to cancel our tennis games because of the typhoon rain.

• The typhoon brought some sudden downpours in the middle of the night this past week.

• As soon as she starts her car her dog starts barking. Our shutter faces their house. It get annoying. (NOT faced their house)

• The neighbour's dog barks pointlessly all the time.

• How many grandchildren do you have? (NOT grandchild)

• Working Class; typically have limited access to education and fewer opportunities for social mobility (for example; factory workers, retail employees, and service industry workers)

• Middle Class; usually have higher levels of education and enjoy a more stable income compared to the working class (for example; white-collar professionals, including office workers, teachers, nurses, and skilled technicians)

• I saw a commercial for a rather expensive retirement home. I was shocked to learn that almost all the rooms in the retirement home were occupied.

• We use “retirement home" to refer to an institution for elderly people requiring care; frequently, it takes the form of an apartment or condominium, rather than an actual house.

• The dance teacher is around eighty years old, and she has about 100 students. (NOT her students are around 100; this sounds like ‘her students are around 100 years old)

• Ballroom dancing; covers a wide range of social dancing for couples., such as waltz, foxtrot, cha-cha, swing, tango, salsa, etc

• My joints are stiff like a rusty gate.

• I fell asleep on the sofa in an odd position, now I have a stiff neck.

• I rolled on my ankle, two days later it felt stiff and I had a limp.

• My back is stiff as a board, I need to hit the onsen and then get a massage. (= extremely stiff)

• A: What brought you to the performance? (NOT the stage)
  B: Some of my friends were performing that day.

• There were a couple of people in the supermarket with a bad cough.