Everyday English (Elementary)

Topic: Robots

Lesson Notes January 30, 2023 (Elementary)

• The restaurant usually has a long line at lunch. The line sometimes goes down the staircase.

• We had a fish carpaccio with kumquats.

• A: Have you eaten bear meat?
  B: Yes, I have. / No, I haven’t.

• What’s the (strangest / most exotic) food you’ve ever had?

• At the end of the year there were plucked chickens hanging in the butcher’s window.

Vocabulary

• Truffle ( TRUHF-uhl )

• Kumquat; a small orange-like fruit with edible rind and pulp

• Wild Game; wild mammals or birds

• Bear, boar, rabbit, deer, pigeon, pheasant etc

• Radiation

• Atmosphere

Robots

• Robots ( ROH-bot; it’s a long O sound )

• The morality of robots is a concern.

• I worry I might step on a vacuum robot and fall down.

• I used the first generation of vacuum robot, it wasn’t reliable.

Homework

Robots - Section 2, listen to the podcast and put the jobs (a-f) in the order they are talked about. One item is extra, the podcast doesn’t talk about it.