Everyday English (Elementary)

Topic: Business People

Lesson Notes February 7, 2023 (Elementary)

• I went to see ballet last week. (NOT ballet stage)

• Stage; (noun) the raised platform in a theatre.

• Compare in, on, and at

• I will go in March. (In + month)

• I will go on March 12. (On + month + date)

• I will go on Friday. (On + day)

• I will go at 6pm. (At + time)

Business People

Pronunciation of numbers and years

• 15 (fifteen / fif-teen )

• 50 ( fifty / fif-ty)

• 1800 - eighteen hundred

• 1801 - eighteen-oh-one

• 1901 - nineteen-oh-one

• 1910 - nineteen-ten

• 2000 - two thousand

• 2001 - two thousand (and) one

• Less common; twenty-oh-one

• 2010 - two thousand (and) ten OR twenty-ten

• Third world country; old-fashioned term for the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

• Nowadays, we prefer to use developing countries

• Biological (family / parents / father / sister etc); (of a member of a person's family) genetically related; related by blood

Homework

Business People: Study the rules in Section 6 and the table in Section 7 to make questions and answers in Section 8