Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Space

Lesson Notes October 31, 2023 (Vocabulary Building)

• My granddaughter wore a kimono at the Shichigosan Ceremony. It was a little difficult to dress her. (= It was difficult to put kimono on her)

• It was also difficult to style her hair. (NOT to make her hair style)

• First, we had my granddaughter’s Shichigosan photographs taken before hand.

• There are many apps that can touch-up your appearance.

• Before going into the concert I went to the washroom to touch-up my makeup.

• I think this winter I am going to touch-up my bedroom, I want to repaint the walls.

• I’m not dancing this weekend, but I’m going to go support my hula group and do some shopping. (We can use “team” when we talk about competitions, the cases use “group”)

• The shops will have a variety of Hawaiian goods, like cups, glasses, flower vases and clothes.

Vocabulary

• Thesaurus; (noun) a book or electronic resource that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts

• https://www.dictionary.com/ (useful for checking definitions)

• https://www.thesaurus.com/ (useful for checking synonyms)

• Touch-up; (noun / verb) to make an improvement to the appearance of something

Space

Section 6

• Observatory ( uhb-ZER-vuh-tawr-ee )

• Astronomer ( uh-STRON-uh-mer )

• Astronaut (AS-truh-nawt )