2025/1/4

上課: Idioms related to shopping and possessions

• in mint condition: means pristine, undamaged since it was made.
• less is more
• collecting dust: hasn't been used for a long time
• come in handy: useful for a certain purpose
  • in bagpack
  • portable charger, umbrella, water bottle
• hard to come by: not common or easy to find
• odds and ends: small things usually of little value
  • like capsule vending machine
  • key chains
• I bought a lot books and they are collecting dust in the corner now.
• My girlfriend like to collect odds and ends.
• rip-off: something that is not worth the price
• compare apples to orange: bad comparison. to compare unlink things
• cut above: better than the rest
• stand the test of time: still useful after many years
• window shopping
  • shopping holics 逛街狂人
• to shop aound for something

2025/1/7

上課: New Year Celebrations

• New Year's resolution
• load trip
• theme park / amusement park
  • miniature
• indulged in food/drink
  • do something too much
• eating healthys many gains
• attainable / unattainable goal
• weakness
• lives aboard

VoiceTube:

• 如何成為一名副主廚｜餐廳生意 (How to Become a Sous Chef | Restaurant Business) - VoiceTube 看影片學英語
  • sous chef
• 【英語字彙】烹飪技巧：炒滷烤煮 (Cooking Vocabulary in English - chop, grill, saute, boil, slice...) - VoiceTube 看影片學英語
  • culinary school
  • what's cooking = what's happening
  • recipe
  • to saute 煎 / boil 滾 / simmer 燉 / broil;roast;grill 烤
  • flat pan / oven 烤箱
  • a little bit of oil
  • chop / dice / slice / fry / deep-fry / stri 攪

2025/1/8

上課: Iterview with Chef Drolet

• cuisine = food
• street food venders / family restaurants / fine dining / restaurant chain
• ingredients / grains(bread/rice/wheat)
• powdered 粉狀的
• medium / well done 9
• decor
• food court
• cozy

【聽Podcast學英文】如何在 2025 年養成良好習慣？(How to Build Good Habits in 2025) - VoiceTube 看影片學英語

• uncover the secret to
• why do we struggle to stick to them
• they often burn out quickly
• overtime, these small improvement add up to big result

2025/1/11

上課: Idioms that use home Vocabulary

• hit close to home:
• have a skeleton in the closet
• home away from home: a place where you feel as comfortable as you do in your own home
• hit close to home:
• home free: having successfully completed something
  • I'm home free
• bring home the bacon: make money
• make oneself at home:
• home stretch: the final/last part
  • in the home stretch / finish the home stretch
• nothing to write home about: not exciting
• on the house: free; at no cost
• homesick
• a homebody: like to stay at home
• wake up on the wrong side of the bed: in a bad mood
• show someone the door: ask someone to leave
• have a skeleton in the closet: have a secret that you don't want others to know
• empty nester: a parent whose children have grown up and left home
• feel comforatble in a new place

2025/1/13

想讓別人喜歡你嗎？其實擁有「魅力」一點都不難！

• charisma / charismatic
• resonate
• shadow answer
• told entertaining stories or cracked a few genuinely funny jokes
• because people inherently value those things
• everyday person
• elevate the other person's experience
• give nonverbal cues
• with a blank face
• vent their emotions

2025/1/14

上課: Iterview with Chef Drolet

• culinary school
• shepherd

2025/1/15

上課: Five things to do in Sydney

• iconic / landmarks
• hidden gem
• off-the-beaten track
• aborigines / aboriginal
• coat hanger
• Southern Hemisphere
• get stuck in traffic
• Manly Beach

澳洲東海岸介紹 (Introducing East Coast Australia) - VoiceTube 看影片學英語

• hip cities
• native critters
• indigenous people

2025/1/18

上課: Common Idiomatic expressions

• about to: planning to do something at the moment
  • The plane is about to take off.
• for good: forever
• better off: to be in a better situation
  • He was better off without her.
• about time: finally
  • it's about time [subject] [past tense]
• up in the air: to be undecided
• all of a sudden: suddenly
• from scratch: from the beginning
• for good: forever
• benefit of the doubt
  • I give a benefit of the doubt to stranger I met.
• close call: a situation that is almost dangerous
  • had a close call
• benifit of the doubt: you believe someone is telling the truth
• up in the air
• for the best:
  • was for the best

2025/1/20

上課: Plans

• book accommodations/hotel
• get some local currency
• apply for a visa
• buy a plain ticket online
• pack your bag
• tips for a cycling vacation

2025/1/21

• get around
• Sydney Opera house
• Harbour Bridge
• Manly Beach
  • Bondi Beach
• Watson's Bay
• cosmopolian / international city
• great climate / mild(not too hot, not too cold)

2025/1/22

上課: A day in the life of a surf instructor

• instructor / teacher
  • instructor: teach skill like drive car, surfing.
• sink / tap / faucet
• plumber / piping
• welder
• surfboard / fins / leash

2025/2/3

上課: Daily route

• cafeteria
• uniform

2025/2/4

上課: A day in the life of a surf instructor (2)

2025/2/5

上課: Five Healthy choices for breakfast avocado, cheese, donut, salami, honey, coffee, blackberries filling dairy(milk, cheese) process food

2025/2/8

上課: Weather and seasons slippery sweet bean soup windy / hot / cloudy / stormy / snowy / cold / rainly / sunny heat wave skate rink / ice skate / skiing / snowboard marine / marine creature / seals Drowning / salty Vancouver wild animal is aggressive wear scarf / muscle and tissue

2025/2/10

上課: Pets and animals Make-up day reptiles hamster yard / tail / tiny / tank水族箱 / fur毛

2025/2/11

• oatmeal
• you need to eat food with carbohydates and protein
• scrambled eggs
• really kickstart your morning
• spinach
• whole-wheat bread
• keep you going until lunchtime
• smoothies / fruit smoothies
• nutrition

2025/2/12

上課: Places to see in Perth

• In the west
• mainland
• vacation(traveling) / holiday
• staycation
• 國家有s結尾的，前面要加the表示是很多組合成的

2025/2/15

上課: Multiword verbs with BACK

• back down: stop todo something (停止爭執)
  • arguement, stoping arguement
  • someside need to back down
• backed off: stop argument
• back off: move away from danger
  • situation is bad
  • move away from the scene of the accident
  • when I see the acciend, I back off
• back up
  • backed up so fast (car) 物理倒退
  • have to repeat something
  • provide proof or evidence
    • back it up
    • back [something/someone] up
  • called for backup(help)
    • The army called for backup
  • duplicate data / information
  • backed up to the cloud
  • the drains backed up and overflowed
  • backed up the traffice for more than five miles 塞車/堵塞
    • The drain was backed up by the flooding
    • The line was backed up
  • Deniz backed up the program every night before switching off her computer.
  • Deniz ensured that she made a backup of the data daily
  • my family backs me up
  • there was a three-week backup of mail to clear
  • we will need to take a backup because the phone battery will only last 48 hours

paramedics 醫護人員 temporary backup (second phone)

2025/2/17

上課: Holidays and celebrations

• gatherings
• Christmas / Halloween / Thanksgiving / birthday / New Year
• Mid-Autumn Festival

2025/2/18

上課: Places to see in Perth

• outback
• hut
• tour guide
• a full-day tour / a half-day tour
• used to be colony
• Kings park
• resident of
• spectacular view
• botanical garden
• voyage on a ship
• live entertainment: not recorded
• sunbathing -> tan (most use)
• cruises

2025/2/19

上課: Colombia: Getting There and Getting Around

• spanish / Bogotá
• Medellin (most famous city)
• bus stations / stops
• how do you get around
• light rail / tram / metro / cable car
• how will you move around the country

2025/2/24

上課: Plans

• basketball court
• grill burger

2025/2/25

上課: Colombia:getting there and getting around

• budget-friendly
• amenities
• Low-cost airline / economical
• Direct flight
• Taxi meter
• Shared Taxi
• Extensive bus service
• Fixed fare
• Peak travel time
• Licensed Taxi
• Alternative transport: substitute for another
• connecntion filght
• cheap domestic fights

2025/2/26

上課: Film review-La La Land

• la-la land: Hollywood
• spectators / crowd / audience
  • audience: watch show
  • spectacular: watch sport
    • sport match/game
• viewer
• performance / carnival
• streaming service/platform
• main characters / setting / short plot

2025/3/3

上課: Travel and vacations

• Orlando, Florida
  • Amusement/theme Park
  • rocket, roller coaster, surfing
  • shrimp, squid
  • I'm allergic to shrimp
  • dragon boat Festival
  • souvenir(from French) / gift

2025/3/4

上課: Film review-La La Land

• make ends meet
• audition (actors interview)
• genre
  • What genre does the book fall into - comedy or tragedy?

2025/3/5

上課: Crime

• pickpocket
• robber
• fine
• break the law
• guilty
• jury
• you are a criminal
• going to prison / jail
• community service / fine
• house arrest
• stab to death

2025/3/8

上課: Multiword verbs with BREAK

• break down 東西壞了(可以修) v.

  • John's car broke down
  • broken-down (不能修)
  • The printer has has a breakdown
    • It rarely breaks down.

• break into 闖入(illegally)

  • break into the store

• breaks down (v.) lose self-control 情緒崩潰highly emotional

• breakdown extremely upset (n.)

  • Harry had a breakdown after losing his job

• break [something] down 分解

  • break down the problem

break a door down 撞破門

• the fireman broke down the door to save the children

Its a broken-down piece of junk she suffered a serious breakdown / burn out

break [something] in 新的東西要磨合

• you need to break the car in slowly. For the first few weeks, try not to drive more than 45 miles per hour

break off 一小塊壞了

• break [something] off
• break off his engagement 取消婚約
• I acciden

break out 逃跑

• when you escape from a place, you break out of it
• the prisoners broke out of jail
• a breakout is an escape from a prison

break out (suddenly appear) 突然發生 a fire broke out break out in the factory

break through 突破

• when you break a problem, you find a way to solve it breakthrough (n.)
  • made a promising breakthourgh in cancer research

break up 阻止

• break up a fight 阻止打架
• If you break a fligh up, you stop it
  • broke the brawl up

break up (end a relationship) 分手

2025/3/12

上課: WWI trench diary

• we're all given a ration of rum
• rifle inspection

2025/3/15

上課: Multiword verbs COME

• It come off the wall 掉落
• come across 跨越(1)
  • go from one side of a place to the other
  • find by accident / to see someone or something without expecting to 有驚喜(2)
  • 別人怎麼看你的/給別人的印象(3)
  • he came across as arrogant and unsympathetic
  • he comes across as aggressive and impatient.
• come about 發生/一連串的事件後發生什麼改變
  • if something came about, it happens after a series of events
• come apart 分解/壞了/東西品質不好或很舊
• come down/up (1)電梯往上往下/價錢往上往下
  • comedown : big life change
    • a huge comedown for him
  • The price of oil fell months ago but the cose of plane tickets has not yet come down
  • (2)生病
  • I've come down with the flu
  • He is coming down with the cold.
  • (3)起源 something originates from its source
  • the word 'coffee' come from kahve in Turkish
• come in/into
  • (1) 進入enter a room
    • come into the busstop
    • in(general) / into(specific distination)
  • (2) 到達 come in / get in
    • the ferry come in at 10pm
  • (3) 方便 comes in handy
    • The dictionary comes in handy because he is studying English.
  • (4) 送貨到達
• come off
  • (1) 脫落
  • the paint is coming off the wall
  • (2) 成功

2025/3/17

上課: Sports

• hot pot / cabbage
• four of them
• four out of five
• a group of
• soccer field
• guard
• goalkeeper / defender / midfielder / forward

2025/3/18

上課: WWI trench diary

• chores
• platoon commander
  • platoon: a group of solder
• duckboards
• No Man’s Land
• snipers

2025/3/19

• pacific garbage
• don mask
• smog
• exhaust from cars
• fumes from factories
• cause pollution
• burn coal and wood
• wildfire
• power plant / power station
  • nuclear power plant
• wind farm

2025/3/21

上課: Background to the American revolution

• territory (land)
• mayor
• parliament
• disguies
• assemblies / asseble
• unrest
• boycott

2025/3/24

上課: Body

• slow season
• from now on
• eyelashes / eyeballs
• cheeks / face / eye / shoulder
• mouth / hand / ear / nose / waist
• forehead / fingers / ankles
• knees / nose / skin / lips
• tongue / foot / feet / back / elbow
• head / neck /
• on her head / on my face
• in my brain
• around her neck
• He is carring a bag over his shoulder
• she has a sore back from carrying a heavy bag
• he has a sore chest
• she has one broken arm

2025/3/25

• Up in the air: when something is uncertain or undecided
• by air: traveling or sending something by plane
• walking on air
• needing some air
• on the air
• putting on airs
• airing out
• visiblilty is poor
• exhaust fumes
• 90-meter high mound

2025/3/26

上課: In my free time

• surf the net -> go online
• leisure actvitity / freetime activity / hobby activity

2025/4/7

上課: Food Fruit

• nectarine / peach
• fig
• apricot / pear
• cranberries
• stone fruits
• A group of fruits is called an orchard
• orchard 果園
• citrus fruits / citrus juice
• tropical fruits
• yellow peel / banana peel
• pomegranate
• dried fruit
  • banana chips
  • dates fruit
  • plums 李子

2025/4/8

上課: Family Values

• big family / extended family / nuclear family
• dink
• maternity leave
• martial status

2025/4/9

上課: A day in the city park

• national park / city park
• fountain
• bycicle land / bycicle path
• bench
• bushes / bush sculpture
• pond / lake
• escalator
• disabled / differently abled
• exhibition
• Its facilities includes ...
• It is located in ...

2025/4/10

上課: Food-Vegetables

• I'm between jobs
• I went to traveling to Hokaido
• green: brocoli / white: cauliflower
• artichoke / bok choy 小白菜 / cabbage 高麗菜
• bulb: 球莖
• kale: 羽衣甘藍
• brussel sprouts: 芽甘藍
• Broccoli comes from Italy
• Leeks
• chives
• vegetarian / vegen
• guilty pleasure

2025/4/11

上課: Food-Fish and Seafood

• stay at home = (stay in)
• stalk 跟蹤 / weirdo 怪人
• high tariffs(n.) 關稅
• That's the spirit 這樣做就對了
• we are chattering 喋喋不休
• sprint
• in the past hour
• TV television (telly)
• Prepositions of Time 時間介係詞
• at (smaller than a day, exact spot)
  • at 5 p.m.
  • at night
  • at breakfast / at lunchtime / at dinner
• on (= a day)
  • on Friday
• in (bigger than a day)
  • in a month / in Spring / in a year
  • (duration)
  • in the morning / in the afternoon / in the evening
• scallop 扇貝
• shrimp草蝦 / prawn明蝦 / lobster龍蝦
• clams
• saltwater / freshwater / deep-sea
• specie (n.) 種類 / race 人種 / racist有種族歧視
• anchovy 鯷魚
• squid 小卷魷魚 / cuttlefish 墨魚(花枝)
• squid game / episods
• octopush