{"id":6444,"date":"2025-09-23T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/?page_id=6444"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:53:21","slug":"notes-from-lesson-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/completed-courses\/english-for-seniors-b2-c1-online-live-course\/notes-from-lesson-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Lesson 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lesson 1-\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Tuesday, 23rd September<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><u>Getting to know each other<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Please take some time to introduce yourselves to each other. You can talk about friends, family, work, interests, English, travel, home etc. Try to find something you have in common with your classmates. Here are some ideas:<\/p>\n<p><u>Interests &amp; Hobbies<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you usually do in your free time?<\/li>\n<li>Do you enjoy reading, watching films, or listening to music? Which one most?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have a hobby or interest you started after retirement?<\/li>\n<li>Do you prefer spending time indoors or outdoors? Why?<\/li>\n<li>What do you do to keep fit and healthy?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have a summer cottage? What do you need to do to maintain it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Travel &amp; Experiences<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s the most interesting place you have ever visited?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a country you would still like to visit? Why?<\/li>\n<li>Do you prefer the sea, the countryside, or the city for holidays?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever had a \u201csurprising\u201d or unusual travel experience?<\/li>\n<li>What was your last holiday?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t\/don\u2019t speak English so <strong>well<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a <strong>good<\/strong> English speaker. He speaks English <strong>well<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s a <strong>good<\/strong> long-distance runner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rinse\/wash<\/strong> the vegetables before cooking them<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scrub<\/strong> the potatoes, wash the vegetables<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wash off<\/strong> the mud<\/p>\n<p>I need to <strong>weed<\/strong> the garden. There are too many <strong>weeds<\/strong> in the vegetable patch.<\/p>\n<p>Vineyard = where grapes are grown<\/p>\n<p>a winery<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <strong>such<\/strong> a nice region.\u00a0 It\u2019s <strong>so<\/strong> nice to be there!<\/p>\n<p>How long <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">time<\/span> have you been waiting?<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s lying <strong>on<\/strong> the sofa.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s talking <strong>on<\/strong> the phone.<\/p>\n<p>They were <strong>at<\/strong> a party on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>They went away for a few days <strong>at<\/strong> New Year.\u00a0 (= festival)<\/p>\n<p>We eat lamb <strong>at<\/strong> Easter.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>variety<\/strong> of subjects<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>English<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you taken English courses with us before? What were they and what did you learn from them?<\/li>\n<li>What made you decide to take this course?<\/li>\n<li>What do you enjoy most about speaking English?<\/li>\n<li>Can you tell your partner (s) about a time you successfully communicated in English?<\/li>\n<li>Can you think of a funny story where the communication wasn\u2019t quite as successful as it could have been? &#x1f60a;<\/li>\n<li>What are your ambitions for this course?<\/li>\n<li>How can the teacher help you with your English?<\/li>\n<li>What subjects interest you?<\/li>\n<li>What do you particularly need to improve?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any websites, apps, books etc that you could recommend to your classmates to help you with your English?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s hour<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t get all the details but I understand the gist\u00a0 \u201cdjist\u201d\u00a0 (= the main message)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsinlevels.com\/\">https:\/\/www.newsinlevels.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/6-minute-english\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/6-minute-english<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/quizzes\/\">https:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/quizzes\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/\">https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AKBH-oXIi-hx0g-Ntx7<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Six-Minute English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What did you read or listen to? Why did you choose it?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What was it about? What did you find particularly interesting?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What new vocabulary did you learn? Muddle along<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Do you have any questions for each other?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We need to open a window as it smells really stuffy in here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It smells musty.\u00a0 (= smells old and stale)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Musty books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We need to air the room.\u00a0\u00a0 I want to air my duvet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of lists do you make?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you some time to talk?\u00a0\u00a0 Have you got some\/any time\u2026?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have\u2026.?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Husbil?\u00a0 A campervan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A caravan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve been to Scotland.\u00a0 I came home this morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where\u2019s the cat gone?\u00a0 It\u2019s disappeared.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The cat has gone to the neighbour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go \u2013 went &#8211;\u00a0 gone\/been<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saccharine <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson 1-\u00a0Tuesday, 23rd September \u00a0Getting to know each other Please take some time to introduce yourselves to each other. You can talk about friends, family, work, interests, English, travel, home etc. Try to find something you have in common with your classmates. Here are some ideas: Interests &amp; Hobbies What do you usually do in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/completed-courses\/english-for-seniors-b2-c1-online-live-course\/notes-from-lesson-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notes from Lesson 1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"parent":6419,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6444\/revisions\/6447"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}