Zoom英会話クラス(火)
Lesson Notes September 24, 2024 (TUESDAY ZOOM)
Words & Phrases
I think my eyes are getting tired. It often happens when I’m watching TV or reading.
I went to the ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) doctor to get some medicine.
He achieved 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases.
The flood waters were two metres high at a convenience store.
An emergency heavy rain warning was issued Saturday for Noto.
The weather front is sitting over this area. (Front; (noun) the moving edge of a mass of air; cold front, warm front)
How’s your new house? Is it still under construction?
The plot is still empty, they haven’t started yet. (Plot; (noun) a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening)
It takes ten minutes to walk up home.
It takes a little less to walk down to the station.
The clinic has about twenty parking spaces.
The baby clinic has painless deliveries.
The weather forecast said to expect temperatures in the high twenties or low thirties until October.
Appropriacy
“Linear rainbands" isn't commonly used in everyday conversation. It's more of a technical or meteorological term; here are a couple of ways we prefer to say
There are bands of torrential rain.
We're getting waves of heavy rain.
It keeps pouring in bursts.
Useful Websites
Daily haiku selections from around the world in English
https://mainichi.jp/english/haiku/
Easy English News using simple Lange and cover familiar topics
https://mainichi.jp/english/easy-japanese-news-in-translation/
