Everyday English (Elementary)

Topic: Eat the Rainbow

Lesson Notes October 31, 2023 (Elementary)

• I’m wearing a long sleeve shirt with an undershirt.

• How long does it take to get there?

• It took about 90 minutes from here. (NOT it took from here …)

• Do you still volunteer to take care of roses?

• During covid-19 there were few events.

• My mini roses are blooming in the kitchen.

• How many glasses of wine did you drink?

• I drank seven glasses of wine.

• Yakitori and wine match very well.

• Yakitori and wine go well together.

• At the udon shop, green onion is a topping.

• He put a lot of green onion on his udon.

• He topped his udon with a lot of green onion.

• He had a hangover.

• I had a three day hangover. (“Three day” is like an adjective, so we do not say “a three days hangover”)

Vocabulary

• Undershirt; (noun) a shirt worn under another shirt

• Volunteer; (verb / noun)

• Topping; (noun)

• Pub crawl; (noun) a tour of drinking at several pubs or drinking places

Eat the Rainbow

Section 5

• Pear ( pair ); it looks like “EAR” but sounds like “air”

• How many servings of beetroot did Paul eat?
  He ate a few servings of beetroot.

• How much orange juice did Samantha drink?
  She drank a little orange juice. (She didn’t drink much orange juice)

• How many bowls of lettuce did Samantha eat?
  She didn’t eat many bowl of lettuce.

• She didn’t eat much lettuce.

• “Samantha ate 3 apples.” (= She ate three whole apples.)

• She ate half of an apple.

• She ate three pieces of apple.(= Samantha cut an apple into three pieces and ate those three pieces)