Zoom英会話クラス(火)
Lesson Notes July 8, 2025 (TUESDAY ZOOM)
Words & Phrases
When are you going back to your finished house?
Have you started packing up everything in cardboard boxes?
Are you using a moving company?
When we moved, the movers put so many boxes in the wrong rooms.
Expel (verb); officially forced to leave an organization, especially a school or club, often as punishment
She was expelled from school for cheating on the exam.
The diplomat was expelled from the country for spying.
After repeated warnings, he was finally expelled from the team.
Did you take correspondence courses?
I digitally mark students’ assignments.
Pronunciation
Cardboard box (noun) ˈkɑːd.bɔːd bɒks / CARD-board box
Appropriate Language
How to use ‘LEAK’
Leak (verb); to secretly give or release confidential or private information to the public
Someone leaked the report to the media.
The plans for the new product were leaked online.
The government was embarrassed after internal documents leaked.
Leak (noun); the act of releasing secret information, or the information that is released
There was a leak of sensitive information.
The source of the leak is still unknown.
That news article is based on a leak from inside the company.
Helpful phrases
leak to the press / media / public
be leaked by an insider / employee
information / document / video / email leak
Various Elected Officials
City Level
Canada
City councillor
Mayor
Japan
City Assembly Member
Mayor
Provincial / Prefectural Level
Canada
Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) — Ontario
Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) — most provinces
Premier — elected leader of a province (like a provincial prime minister)
Japan
Prefectural Assembly Member
Governor of a prefecture
National Level
Canada
Member of Parliament (MP) — House of Commons
Senator — appointed, not elected
Prime Minister — leader of the party with most seats in Parliament
Japan
Member of the House of Representatives
Member of the House of Councillors
Prime Minister
