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  • Today's subject is 10 phrases for surviving back to school.

  • backpack

  • Put your backpack under your desk for the test.

  • A backpack is a pack that goes on your back, you see all kids wearing it to school, it

  • zips open, you put your books inside and you wear it on your back.

  • It's a backpack.

  • classmate

  • He's been my classmate since kindergarten.

  • A classmate is someone that you are in class with.

  • So your friend who sits next to you, that's your classmate, Timmy who sits all the way

  • down there, that's your classmate.

  • A classmate is just someone who's literally in class with you, who you go to school with.

  • homework

  • Do we have homework due tomorrow?

  • Homework is work you do at home, so at the end of a class the teacher will say, tonight

  • for homework I want you to do 50 math problems, which sounds like a lot.

  • Fifty math problems for homework and you turn it in tomorrow.

  • So homework is work that you take home with you to do at night when you're at home.

  • exam

  • If you start studying for the exam now, you'll thank yourself later.

  • An exam is a test.

  • Once you learn some sort of topic in class, your teacher might want to give you an exam

  • to test your knowledge.

  • So your teacher is going to hand out the tests and you're going to sit there and fill it

  • out, and that's an exam.

  • An exam is also known as a test, they're the same thing.

  • An exam is just putting to the test what you know, it's making you recall the information

  • that you've learned in class.

  • You take an exam.

  • summer break

  • This summer break I'm not going to do anything at all!

  • Summer break is a vacation that you have after class ends and it takes place during the summer.

  • Some people call it summer vacation, summer break; it usually lasts a few months and you

  • can do whatever you want during that time because you don't have class, you don't have school.

  • It usually comes at the end of a semester, at the end of the year.

  • So if you're in high school and you have freshman year, at the end of freshman year you're going

  • to have summer vacation, summer break.

  • school

  • What school do you go to?

  • I love my school.

  • School is great.

  • I learn so much in school.

  • School is where you go to learn.

  • So you wake up in the morning and do your hair, and you get ready for school, then you

  • get on the school bus, or you get driven to school or you walk to school; and in school

  • is where you have class, where you see your classmates, where you take exams.

  • study

  • To study means to go over everything you've

  • learned to prepare for a test.

  • Just to prepare for class in general, to make sure you understand the topic, it's to study.

  • Some people like to study at libraries, some people like me like to study just at home

  • in bed because then I can fall asleep easily.

  • Studying is what you need to do to prepare for an exam, to prepare for a hard day of

  • class coming up, it's just to make sure that you understand the topics that you're learning

  • in school.

  • It's the first day of class.

  • I have so much work and it's only the first day of class!

  • The first day of class, you might feel nervous or worried or scared, especially if it's a

  • new school and it's the first day of class, and that's when you're going to meet all of

  • your classmates for the first time.

  • Some people over summer break like to buy new clothes and new wardrobe in preparation

  • for the first day of class.

  • We're in the same class!

  • We're in the same class for the third time in a row!

  • I'm talking to an imaginary friend here.

  • Being in the same class means that that other person is your classmate, it means you go

  • to class to learn together.

  • So for example, you might be in the same history class as your friend Jonathan, or you might

  • be in the same English class as your friend Susie.

  • Being in the same class is fun because then you and your classmate can do homework together,

  • can prepare for exams together, etc.

  • What classes are you taking?

  • What classes are you taking?

  • Oh, I'm taking Social Studies, English, Math, and theater.

  • What classes are you taking is a question that a lot of people ask each other on the

  • first day of school, because when you are in high school, let's say, or maybe even younger,

  • you're able to choose some classes, those are called electives.

  • So, for example, my friend Susie is taking Advanced European history, that might be different

  • from what I'm taking because when I chose my classes for a semester or for a school

  • year, I chose something else; maybe I chose Advanced American history.

  • So what classes are you taking, you're going to hear a lot on the first day of school so

  • that friends can find out what classes they might share.

  • That brings us to the end of today's lesson - 10 phrases for surviving back to school.

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