Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Space

Lesson Notes October 24, 2023 (Vocabulary Building)

• Did you (get / take) any medicine for your fever?

• I felt drained at work recently.

• What did you (have / eat) at the cafe?

• I had a (plain / vanilla / matcha / chocolate etc) cake. (It’s often more important to say the flavour of the dessert, rather than the dessert style)

• The cafe doesn’t serve lunch. (= They don’t have lunch.)

Vocabulary

• Muscle ache; a milder, uncomfortable feeling in your muscles

• Muscle pain; a stronger, often hurting sensation in your muscles

• Get medicine; purchase yourself, or be given by someone (like a doctor)

• Take medicine; ingest medicine

• Drain; (verb) (of feeling, emotion, energy etc) to become less strong

Space

Section 3 “as … as”

• We use “as … as” to say two things are the same or different in some way

• Mercury isn’t as big as Jupiter. It’s much smaller.

• Earth is almost as small as Venus.

• The Earth doesn’t have as many satellites as Jupiter.

• Observatory ( uhb-ZER-vuh-tawr-ee )

• Astronomer ( uh-STRON-uh-mer )

• Astronaut (AS-truh-nawt )

Homework; Space Section 5; check and English dictionary to see the other meanings of those words. You might want to write your own example sentence to help you remember