{"id":6731,"date":"2025-12-03T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/?page_id=6731"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:00:06","slug":"notes-from-lesson-4-3-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/completed-courses\/english-conversation-b2-c1-wednesdays\/notes-from-lesson-4-3-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Lesson 4 (3\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How has your week been? Have you done anything interesting or relaxing?<\/li>\n<li>Talk about something that has made you smile.<\/li>\n<li>Show your partner a photo of a special moment from the past week or year (or just describe an event). Talk about why this photo is special and what the event was.<\/li>\n<li>What kind of things do you like to take photos of?<\/li>\n<li>Did you do anything special for the first of Advent?<\/li>\n<li>What new vocabulary did you learn in the lesson last week? Did you find out anything interesting about your classmates?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christmas hymns = <strong>Christmas carols<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Christmas songs\u00a0 (= Mariah Carey)<\/li>\n<li>We put up the Christmas lights and Christmas decorations<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (for example) = \u00a0<strong>fairy tales<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vocabulary review\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the rush hour.\u00a0 Commuters \u00a0\u00a0a commuter train\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on foot<\/p>\n<p>Misty morning\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 foggy morning\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 a department store<\/p>\n<p>A shopping mall\u00a0 &#8211; a shopping centre<\/p>\n<p>Cross country skiing<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 isolation <\/strong><strong>\u00a0insulation isolated insulated<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The walls aren\u2019t <strong><em>insulated<\/em> <\/strong>enough, so the house loses heat quickly in winter.<\/li>\n<li>During the pandemic, many people felt <strong><em>isolated<\/em> <\/strong>at home and missed social contact.<\/li>\n<li>During the winter, it is important to have good <strong><em>insulation<\/em><\/strong> in your house to keep the heat inside.<\/li>\n<li>Technology, like video calls, helped reduce the feeling of <strong>i<em>solation<\/em><\/strong> during the COVID pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>TED talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What TED talk did you choose and why did you choose it?<\/li>\n<li>What was it about?<\/li>\n<li>What was the most interesting fact that you picked up?<\/li>\n<li>Was there anything that surprised you?<\/li>\n<li>Was there anything you disagreed with?<\/li>\n<li>Will you do anything differently in the future based on what you learned?<\/li>\n<li>What new vocabulary did you learn that you think you might use in the future?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have any questions for each other?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julbord = a Christmas buffet<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019ve finished reading, put the book back <strong>in the bookcase\u00a0 <\/strong>\/ \u00a0\u00a0<strong>on the bookshelf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I drank coffee late yesterday and so I couldn\u2019t fall asleep\/\u00a0 sleep \u00a0\/sleep well.<\/p>\n<p>I was kept awake by my roommate\u2019s <strong>snoring<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>She works as <strong>an interpreter\/ a translator<\/strong> from Japanese to English.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rotary phone<\/p>\n<p>A cell phone, a mobile phone<\/p>\n<p>A brick phone<\/p>\n<p>A smartphone<\/p>\n<p>A landline\u00a0 (Home phone)<\/p>\n<p>We have both a landline and mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>A fax machine<\/p>\n<p>Are you home tomorrow? Otherwise I will call you next week.<\/p>\n<p>My son\u2019s son= my grandson<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother\u2019s mother = my great-grandmother<\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s sister<\/p>\n<p>My niece, my nephew<\/p>\n<p>A piggy bank<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has your week been? Have you done anything interesting or relaxing? Talk about something that has made you smile. Show your partner a photo of a special moment from the past week or year (or just describe an event). Talk about why this photo is special and what the event was. What kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/completed-courses\/english-conversation-b2-c1-wednesdays\/notes-from-lesson-4-3-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notes from Lesson 4 (3\/12)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"parent":6596,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6731","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6731","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=6731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6731\/revisions\/6735"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/muhlsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}