Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Education

Lesson Notes January 10, 2023 (Vocabulary Building)

• Have (things / stuff) to do; we use this to say we have some task or action that one must complete or undertake. Can also be used when we don’t know what someone is doing

• She won’t be attending today, she has things to do.

• Mom said she would be late getting home, she has some stuff to do after work.

• You can find the book at the library.

• I borrowed the book from the library.

• I have to return the book to the library.

• Please be quiet when in the library.

• Railroad workers; a person whose job is to ensure that passenger and freight trains operate safely (drive trains, coordinate the activities of the trains, or control signals and switches in the rail yard etc)

• Abridged; shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense

• My friend and I are reading an abridged version of Winnie the Pooh.

• My teacher picked twenty students to go to the seminar. (NOT pick up)

• Myth; a set of stories or beliefs about a person, culture etc

• There will be two forty minute performances. (NOT forty minute stages)

Education

• Preschool; relating to the time before a child is old enough to go to school. This can cover daycare, kindergarten, nursery school etc