Name: Listening, Vocabulary, Comprehension: 8 English Expressions
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T20:35:16.000Z
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Hi James frank did just trying to figure out why.

Okay so today's lesson is on how books and reading can be used for business and casual conversation.

This is a lesson in which we're going to work on your listening skills.

We're going to increase your vocabulary and help you with comprehension all at the same time.

What I need for you to do to help me help you is grab a pen and pen pencil and grab some paper.

If you can't do that don't worry about it.

Redo this later on and I'm going to read a story to you.

You're going to listen to reason why I'm doing that is our sense of hearing gets better when we don't watch something else.

We'll come back I'll explain all of the vocabulary that I have picked specifically for you to learn.

We'll go over that vocabulary then to work on your comprehension.

What we're going to do is we'll read the story again.

You will then listen see how much you've got and of course we'll test it finally with a.

My mother told me that you can't judge a book by its cover.

He was a bookworm by nature and in my book he was a really good guy.

Some of his coworkers weren't as honest as he was and would cook the books if it made them more money.

So you always had to read between the lines when you do business with them.

One day, Mr E caught his colleague trying to cheat a little old lady.

So Mr E read him the riot act and threatened to throw the book at him if he ever did it again.

And I'm going to take a page out of his book and be a good guy too.

So we have done our listening component where you heard a story and a whole bunch of words you didn't understand and we're going to take the time now to work on the the part of our lesson, the vocabulary that I picked for you.

This will aid us in our comprehension comprehension in our next section.

You can't judge a book by its cover and that means the outward appearance of a thing doesn't tell you what's inside.

Just because it looks one way doesn't mean it's that way all the way through.

An egg has an outside hard shell and you knock on it it's hard, but if you cracking that open, everybody knows the inside is liquid, it's not hard on the inside.

You meet a person who is quiet and shy but they could be like a great fighter and you wouldn't see it on the outside because they keep it on the inside.

So don't judge a book by its cover means just because it looks a certain way, it doesn't reveal to you the true nature of the thing.

Number two book warren, someone who loves books and loves reading, yep, that's that's basically at e is a worm and the bookworm is someone like because you know the worm goes in the ground and stays there a person who's a bookworm gets into books, they love to read and read a lot.

You could say for instance if you have a friend who loves reading all the time, he's a bookworm, he's always in the library and it would tell me right away, loves to eat library.

In my book, it means, in my opinion, this is what I think right?

Everybody has their own book in a way of speaking as you live, you create your own story.

So in your book this is how you believe or how you see it from your perspective cook the books to falsify facts and figures some of you might be falsified.

It's when you change things, you shouldn't change there was what's right and correct and what's false is usually similar to wrong.

So when you falsify you take something and you change it.

Example, if someone has books for accounting and they're counting things and they have 1000, they might add another zero and say it costs 10,000.

Next read between the lines, there's an old joke actually come to that second.

It means to search for the truth and the meaning of what is said there is what somebody says and what they really mean.

Okay, So in that case when we say read between the lines, you've got line line, what's in between?

Yes, some of you caught it and if you didn't, you can't read between the lines, it means there's a real intent or a real meaning, but they may not be able to say it.

For example, johnson, you're a great worker.

We have had a tremendous time working with you.

As you know, we have to let go of some of the work force here and we've always appreciated work.

Read between the lines, we have always liked not.

We like we have always they're talking in the past tense, you're gone.

So there's the words they say, but in between is the real meaning.

Next read someone the riot act, it means to strongly warn somebody to improve their behavior.

The riot act is something in many cities all over the world have, which is basically when the people are acting out or protesting in the streets, if there's a riot act, it means the police will go out to control them and say change your behavior.

When someone reads you the riot act, they're saying, hey, look, this is what you're doing.

And if you keep doing this, this is what's going to happen.

And it's not gonna be party with a cake and your friends, you're gonna be in trouble.

So when they read you the riot act, they tell you what you're doing, how they feel about it and what's going to happen if you continue and it's not a positive thing.

Okay, throw the book at someone and it means to punish someone severely.

Now if you stop and think about it, if I took a book and I threw it at you, it's gonna hurt.

When you go to court, if the judge throws the book at you, he's going to say, well for doing this particular bad thing, you should go to jail for two years.

But I'm sending you for 10 years, he's throwing the book at you because that's the maximum in the book and he's saying you're going to be punished this much?

Okay, last one, take a page out of someone's book.

Do you remember when I talked up here and I said in my book we're all basically books.

Well if you're a book you have many pages because you've lived a long time.

So in this particular thing it says to act in a way someone else would act.

You were reading someone else's book and you're saying I like that behavior, I want to be like that so I'm going to take that page out put it in my book so I can act like that.

It's usually for things that we find respectful in someone else or we've respected someone else.

Um So it could be working hard, being tough.

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