Everyday English (Elementary)

Topic: The Body

Lesson Notes November 14, 2023 (Elementary)

• I could see Mt Fuji from my balcony today. The top of the mountain is covered in snow.

• Is it the peak season for leaves changing colours?

• One of the pools at the onsen was lukewarm.

• A: What symptoms did you have?
  B: After a few days I had a cough. After several days I had (little / no) energy.

• The flu is going around these days.

• There is a bad cold going around my son’s elementary school.

• The glass is 0.1% to 1% radioactive. (= zero point one percent)

• My smartphone was pickpocketed. (NOT I was pickpocketed my smartphone)

• Did you have carryon luggage only?

• I had one checked bag and one carry-on bag.

• When I travel I have only one piece of carry-on luggage. (NOT one luggage)

Vocabulary

• Lukewarm / Tepid; (adj) especially for a liquid, only slightly warm

• Go around; (phrase) especially for an illness, spreading from person to person

• (Carry-on / Checked) luggage

The Body

• For part of the arms, legs and back we can say;

  • upper arm, lower arm, upper leg, lower leg, upper back, lower back

• For the bottom of a person we can use backside / buttocks / bum / (ass - slang, impolite)

• Don’t confuse these two words

• Hip; each side of your pelvis (the bony structure forming your hips and connecting the spine to the legs)

  • I stood waiting with my hand on my hip.

  • My grandmother fell last winter and broke her left hip.

• Hips; the round width of both sides of your hips and around the buttocks

  • When you dance remember to move your hips.

  • His hips are too big, he won’t fit into his jeans.