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IE3 Core Thursday: Lesson 12

6/26/2015

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Hi everyone,

We're heading into the home stretch (the "home stretch" is the area between third base and home plate in baseball". This idiom means that you are almost finished something. In this case, we are almost finished out course.

American Slang:
Since we've finished all of our course requirements, we had a lesson on American slang today. When you use slang, makes sure you are using it in the appropriate context (e.g. who you're speaking with and the type of situation). We learned these verbs:
1. ditch: I'm going ditch class today.
2. hit up: I'll hit you up after class.
3. bomb: I totally bombed my exam.
4. bounce: This party is boring. I'm gonna bounce.
5. hang out: I'm gonna hang out with friends tomorrow.

We learned these adjectives:
1. shady: The man in front of the station is really shady.
2. ballin': She's wearing Prada heels. She must be ballin'.
3. down: I'm down with that.
4. lame: That's so lame. / He's so lame.
5. tight: That idol grop is so tight.

Discussions:
All group leaders did an excellent job in today's discussions. They were over 20 minutes each! This is because all groups have very strong conversational style. I was very happy to see more member to member interactions in the discussions. Great work!

Homework:
1.  Blog Comment #11
2. 
Discussion Preparation
3.  Journal Topic #9: festival experiences

Blog Question #11:

Tell me three plans you have for your summer vacation.

  • Write 8-10 sentences.
  • Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
  • Submit by Wednesday, July 1 by 6:00pm
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