Zoom英会話クラス(火)

Lesson Notes January 7, 2025 (TUESDAY ZOOM)

Words & Phrases

• Have you fully recovered?

• I’ve mostly gotten over my dizziness.

• I didn’t feel much pain because I took a painkiller everyday.

• I had a severe pain in my back from a kidney stone.

• I took medicine that made it easier to pass the stone.

• I had excruciating pain from a kidney stone.

• Were the shrines crowded with people?

• There were long lines of people.

• Many people were standing in line to pray at New Year’s.

• I stayed at my second home in Nagano. I did nothing for five days.

• It’s near the city of Chino.

• My sister is from the town of Hakone.

• I prepared New Year’s gifts for all my grandchildren.

• There are a lot of trinkets collecting dust in my house.

Appropriate Language

• In my back; use this to refer to pain that is felt inside or within the area of your back

• On my back; use this to refer to something physically on the surface of your back, such as a rash or bruise

• Excruciating; extremely painful and very intense physical pain

• Stand in line; use this to describe people waiting in an orderly fashion

• Collect dust; used to say that items are not being used or are being neglected