Everyday English (Elementary)

Topic: Describing Friends

Lesson Notes July 2, 2024 (Elementary)

• I feel sluggish because of the summer heat.

• The summer heat is making me sluggish.

• The temperature is rising, you’ll get sluggish.

• I haven’t fully recovered yet.

• I am still a bit sick.

• My hula sister and I went to see our teacher’s dance recital.

• Chūkyō television sponsored that event.

• That event was sponsored by Chūkyō television.

• There was traditional and modern hula dances.

• I was (moved / impressed) with their dancing.

• We can use “hurt” in a general way to mean pain or injury, to any part of our body

• I hurt my lower back.

• If you jump off that high place you’ll hurt your legs.

• He hurt his hand playing tennis.

• I hurt my back in my twenties.

• We can use “end up” to say the result of something

• I was feeling dizzy on the stairs and ended up falling down and hurting my lower back.

• He was cooking dinner and ended up burning his face.

• The train was late so I ended up missing the start of the movie.

• What’s the most common injury in (hula / tennis / baseball / gardening / cooking etc)?

• What part of your body are you focusing on in the gym?

• Their car stopped and broke down on the highway.

• They were on their way to a memorial service.

• My sister said that I am a (godsend / super sister).

Vocabulary

• Sluggish; (adj) having little or no energy

• Break down; (verb) (for a machine, car etc) suddenly stop working properly

• Godsend; (noun) a very helpful person or item

• In one’s (childhood / teens / twenties / thirties / forties etc); a period in a person’s life