2017-08-01 Vocab: at school

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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p. 86 - Try to choose the correct idioms to complete each sentence from memory.
1 bumper-to-bumper traffic
2 go for a spin
3 ran a light
4 lead foot
5 punch it
6 fender-bender
7 Hop in
8 totaled
9 clunker
10 blowout
11 cop
12 rush hour
13 potholes
14 hauled in
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English vowel sounds:
short vowels often occur when it’s the only vowel in the word
cap
kept
kip
cop
cup
long vowels often occur when there are two vowels in the word (including silent ‘e’)
cape
keep
(kipe - not a real word)
cope
coop
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Lesson 8 - At School
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p. 90 - Use the sentences and the pictures to guess the meaning of each idiom.
1 I
2 B
3 E
4 J
5 D
6 N
7 C (A straight-A student is a student that always gets straight A’s.)
8 H
9 G (You can also bomb a test.)
10 L
11 A
12 M
13 K
14 F
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In conversations in schools and universities, many subjects have a short name:
psych = psychology
	biopsych
	neuropsych
bio = biology
chem = chemistry
math = mathematics (“maths” in British English)
	calc = calculus
	trig = trigonometry
	stats = statistics
	diff E Q = differential equations
econ = economics
ed = education
	P.E. = phys ed = physical education
	music ed = music education
sci = science
	comp sci = computer science
	poli sci = political science
phil = philosophy
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Pronunciation: reduction of third-person pronouns - We often don’t pronounce the ‘h’ or the ‘th’ in “them”
he / him / his
she / her
it / its
they / them / their
“Gotta catch ‘em all.”