Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Food and Drink

Lesson Notes May 21, 2024 (Vocabulary Building)

• I’ve been studying French for twenty years.

• … for these past twenty years. (NOT since these twenty years)

• Our teacher is a Japanese French Teacher. (= a Japanese person who teaches French)

• My mother has a really old necklace, the clasp is in perfect condition but some of the links are broken.

• Have you checked out the new Frozen Food floor in Aeon?

• The pool water looked a bit scuzzy after being used by many school children.

• These bedsheets are looking scuzzy, they should be washed.

• We had to use fewer lanes at the swimming pool because of school children.

Vocabulary

• Scuzzy; (adj) dirty and unpleasant

• Lane; (noun) a division of a street, pool, bowling alley etc

Food and Drink

Section 2

• Snail (escargot), pigeon, wild pig, alligator, whale, dolphin, frog, sparrow, dog, rabbit, venison (deer meat), buffalo

• Salmon, tuna, flying fish, eel, bonito, yellow tail, mackerel, sea bream, cod, herring, blowfish, caviar, shark fin, sea cucumber, scallop, clams, oyster, sea bass, lobster, trout, whale, shrimp, squid, octopus, abalone, sardine, carp, monkfish, mussels

Homework

Section 3 Make of list of herbs and spices in your kitchen. You may want to look up the meaning of “spice”