Zoom英会話クラス(火)

Zoom (火)
Written By Kristopher Matheson

Lesson Notes February 14, 2023 (TUESDAY ZOOM)

  • Do you think there is much pollen in the air?

  • Who suffers from hay fever?

  • It snowed (heavily / deeply). (NOT it snowed deep)

  • Deep (adverb); far down or in

    • We walked deep into the forest.

  • Whiteout; (noun) a dense blizzard, especially when snow is blowing making it difficult to see

    • I saw on the news a popular ski resort had a whiteout, it was almost impossible to see anything.

  • “He is called a racoon dog uncle” may not make sense depending on the context. It would be better to say “He is likened to a racoon dog.”

  • Cruel ( kroo-uhl )

    • Words which rhyme (have similar pronunciations); duel, fuel, school, rule, pool

  • Unspeakable; (adjective) too bad or horrific to express in words

    • Both of those situations are unspeakable.

  • Proof; (adjective) able to withstand something damaging, resistant (in combinations)

    • (Earthquake / heat / water / child / idiot) proof

Prepositions of movement or direction

These prepositions show movement from one place to another place. If you would like more examples in sentence form, please let me know.

Kristopher Matheson

Hello, I'm Kristopher, a Canadian teaching English & photographer in Japan. I am primarily interested in urban environments and the people found there, as well as abstractionism in architecture and landscapes.

http://www.krismatheson.com
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