Everyday English (Elementary)

Topic: Losing Everyday Objects

Lesson Notes June 10, 2025 (Elementary)

Words & Phrases

• I’ve just recovered, but I’m not 100% yet.

• I had a fever, so I worried about having influenza or COVID-19.

• The doctor said you can be contagious for up to 10 days. It might have been whooping cough (百日咳 ).

• Was your voice hoarse because of your cold?

• My throat was hoarse from shouting loudly at the concert.

• I had to take kids’ cough medicine. It’s sweeter than the adult version.

• In Canada, the name ‘saskatoon berry’ is more common, while Americans usually say ‘juneberry’.

• I have a lime cutting I am trying to grow.

• I took a cutting from a blueberry bush to grow it.

• I have a small cutting from a rose I am trying to grow.

• On the weekend, I went and practiced (golfing / golf).

• Did you (take / study) French at school?

• At school she studied German.

• Is your son still in school?

• I think I experienced discrimination at a restaurant in Paris years ago.

Grammar

• We say “at school” when we talk about the place where learning happens; you study a subject “at school”

• We say “in school” when we mean someone is going to school or is a student there.