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Follow up for Saunatina's lesson
I didn't wrote previous follow up, so this one going to be for both previous lessons.
First about my mistakes:
1. When we refer to a day, we should use "on" instead of "at". F.e. "I'll go to a university on Thursday".
2. You must use "it depends on" instead of "... of".
Second about some new words and phrases:
1. Turnover rate. It's a coefficient which represents how many of your employees are leave your company.
2. Body tense. It's condition when you are nervous and your body is in stress.
3. Tease. It's a process of annoying someone.
4. Commute. It's a process of moving to a work from your home. If I'm right it mostly usable when you are talking about suburb home.
5. Suburb. Suburb of Moscow - it's where I'm living now =)
6. Harshness. It means like it sounds. Very sharp.
7. Hedge. When somebody harsh to you - you make hedge between his words and you. Also you may have hedge in your garden.
8. You can say "I'm settled in for the night" when you are at home and not going to move somewhere till the night.
9. I got out of it. I'm not sure but I think that it means finished process of leaving some situation/business or like that.
Also I learned two new tongue twisters:
- Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
- There, those thousand thinkers were thinking, how did the other three thieves go through.
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First intensive lesson with Saunatina
Today our focus was on articles (the, a, an).
So in my speech I have a lot of mistakes regarding articles.
It has some interesting fact about a/an. I didn't knew that before. This choice depends not on the first letter, it depends of the first sound. F.e. you should say "an MBA", because first sound is vowel, even the letter is consonant.
Also I remembered few new words, here they are:
1. Consensus. It means situation when somebody agree with your opinion or actions.
2. Complain about. It means when somebody disagree and telling you about that.
Also I remembered the word "unfounded" but forgot it's meaning =\
I figured out the difference between "do" and "make". "Make" means that you are making something by your hands, usually something physical. And "do" means anything else.
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New words and few mistakes
I learned few new words, here they are:
1. Soda/soda pop - it's a drinks like coca-cola, sprite and like that. Previously I thought they name is "lemonade".
2. In UK it's flat, but in USA it's apartment.
3. Remote. I knew this word but only in the context of IT. But it describes also long-distance objects.
4. I learned word contaminated - it's synonym of polluted.
5. Chipmunks. Chip & Dale was chipmunks =)
And some of my mistakes.
6. We are 3 years old. (not “our age is 3 years”). It's some legacy of russian-thinking.
7. We have 10 days off. (not "we have 10 weekends")
8. City can't be "rude". Rude means impolite. City can be gloomy or dark f.e.
9. I was never in Asia. (not "I never was in Asia").
10. Cousin - it's a daughter of my uncle.
11. Classmate means not only schoolmates, but also university.
And again my mistake "we WAS" =\
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Test lesson with Saunatiana
Today I learned how to pronounce sound "th". There are two different sounds with this letters - hard and soft. In any of them you should place your tongue not above your teeth, but between top and bottom, so in this case you could avoid problem of "russian pronunciation".
Also she fixed couple of my mistakes regarding grammar.
1. Me and my girlfriend were on snowboarding camp. (I told "was").
2. I going to make it at 3-4 pm. (I told "in 3-4 pm").
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