Saturday, October 4, 2014

Presentations & Pronunciation

This week we started to discuss presentations.  Click here for some vocabulary we talked about.

Ted Talks are a good example of presentations today.  Here is one about learning English.  Check out the visuals and the way he talks to the audience.


Here are some idioms  and expressions we covered this week:

  • to be burned out
  • to be on edge
  • to freak out
  • to be pissed off (very informal!  Don't talk this way to your boss.)
  • to come across as
  • to come across something
  • to be a lemon
  • to be a freak
  • what on earth....?
Finally, here are the words from the pronunciation practice:



distinguish
accurate
reschedule
condescending
accusation
familiarity
distinguish
enunciate
consideration
threatening
proficient
transparencies
doubt
hyphenated
confused
distinct
subconscious
underestimate
guarantee
visuals
resolved
acquaintance
signal
clarification
anecdote
facial gesture
consequences
etiquette
 

Click here to hear them.

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