Everyday English (Elementary)

Topic: Dates and Numbers

Lesson Notes September 23, 2025 (Elementary)

Words & Phrases

• Do your customers always make appointments?

• Do you ever have walk-in customers?

• Walk-in customer (noun) = a person who comes to a shop, restaurant, or office without an appointment or prior booking

• The clinic accepts both appointments and walk-in customers.

• We had several walk-in customers at the café this morning.

• “Most customers use the website.” (In English we cannot say “almost customers”, we have to use “most customers” or “almost all customers)

• “Be doing well” is a useful phrase meaning to be in a good condition, successful, or managing life or a situation positively

• Is business doing well?

• Is your family doing well?

• Are you roses doing well in this summer heat?

• I am (not) doing well.

• We opened five bottles and finished three. Two still had a little left.

• We cooked biriyani while drinking. We made pacific saury with sudachi.

• What kind of biriyani can you make?

• I think you can use anything to make biriyani.

• Cats have a very sensitive nose. They can smell much better than people.

• Relocate (verb) = to move to a different place, often for work

• The company decided to relocate its headquarters to Tokyo.

• Next spring my daughter is relocating to Sapporo for work.

Life in Numbers

• Reading 1A Connections

• Maybe people take 100 baths a year.

• I think a fancy spa bath might cost $100.

• Maybe people take a bath for 100 minutes.

• I think pizzas bake at around 350°F

• A slice of pizza might have 350 calories.

• I think pizza costs ¥350.

• I think there are 4 sets of traffic lights at each intersection.

• People wait 4 minutes for traffic lights.

• I think people drive through 4 traffic lights a week.

• Maybe people walk 7,500 steps a day.

• The best exercise is maybe walking for 7,500 minutes a week.