Presentations & Pronunciation

This week we started to discuss presentations.  Click here for some vocabulary we talked about.

Ted Talks are a good example of presentations today.  Here is one about learning English.  Check out the visuals and the way he talks to the audience.

Here are some idioms  and expressions we covered this week:

• to be burned out
• to be on edge
• to freak out
• to be pissed off (very informal!  Don't talk this way to your boss.)
• to come across as
• to come across something
• to be a lemon
• to be a freak
• what on earth....?

Finally, here are the words from the pronunciation practice:

distinguish

accurate

reschedule

condescending

accusation

familiarity

distinguish

enunciate

consideration

threatening

proficient

transparencies

doubt

hyphenated

confused

distinct

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Click here to hear them.