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Lesson Notes October 16, 2026 (FRIDAY ZOOM)

Words & Phrases

• I'd love it if the temperature stayed around 20 degrees all year round.

  • The weather has been so unpredictable the entire year.

• The restaurant is in a house with a lush green garden. (= describes plants, vegetation that is growing thickly, healthily, and abundantly)

  • The staff had great manners.

  • I was able to eat seven kinds of bite-sized desserts.

• I was surfing the web for a bunch of different restaurants. (NOT surfing a website)

  • I was looking at one website and found a restaurant that I had been to about 20 years ago.

• There is a French restaurant that often holds wedding receptions in their garden. (NOT wedding party) (“Wedding party” often refers to the “the bridesmaids and groomsmen")

• There were five or six people (lined up / in line) to play the piano.

• I think Shoko is a reverse vampire! She only goes out during the day.

• I haven’t checked out that observation deck yet.

Appropriate Language

• There was a warning about an earthquake.

  • Did you get the earthquake alert on your phone?

  • You didn’t hear the city’s sirens going off earlier?

• How to use “Line"

  • Lined up: Standing in a row waiting for a turn

    • "People were lined up around the block."

  • Line of [people/cars] (common noun structure)

    • "There was a huge line of people at the entrance."

  • Wait in line / Stand in line: The action of waiting

    • “We had to wait in line for 20 minutes.” (Also “in a queue”)