Happy Thanksgiving Week

Since we've been concentrating on job interviews this week, we don't have a lot of vocabulary.  You can practice (a rather strange assortment of words) here.

This week's idioms were:

• to be bummed out
• to throw in the towel
• to give someone a hard time
• to let someone have it
• to clean up (pronoun) act

I will take next weekend off for Thanksgiving  and be back in December.  Until then I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving, in my opinion, is the best holiday we have, and it's a holiday for everyone everywhere because it is not from any religion or any culture.  It is simply a day to say thank you for everything you have:

your family

your health

the roof over your head

the food on your table

your friends

your work

your school 

your ability to read in at least 2 languages

and ....

And , I want to say Thank you to you for reading this.

Let's Get A Job!

This week we've been talking about jobs in the US, applications, and job interviews.  Click here for our vocabulary (there's a lot!)

Also this week we had these idioms:

• to crack me up/ to crack up
• to blow it
• to be ripped off/ to be a rip off
• to have it in for someone
• to be on the same page

And, here are this week's tongue twisters.  They make no sense, but they're a lot of fun!

1.     Seven slick slimy snails, slowly sliding southward.

2.    Chicken in the car and the car can go, that is the way you spell Chicago.

3.    The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

4.    If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

5.    If you understand, say ""understand"". If you don't understand, say ""don't understand"". But if you understand and say ""don't understand"". how do I understand that you understand?

6.    Whether the weather: Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not.

7.    Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather whether we like it or not.

Here's the link to hear me pronouncing them:  https://soundcloud.com/alemany-teach/tongue-twisters-4

Back to Business

This week we discussed ways to interrupt in meetings -- and had a lot of fun doing so.  Here is the vocabulary we studied.  Remember if you can't get to the premium activities,  log in as VOTPstudent.  Your password is 750.  You should be able to do all the games and take the vocabulary test too.  If you have a problem, please tell me or email me at dselleck@ccsf.edu.

We also studied these idioms & expressions over the past week:

• to put something on the back burner
• to have a pity party
• to rub (it) in
• to be on a slipper slope

It's Been An Exciting Week...

in San Francisco!

First the Giants won the World Series and there was a GIANT parade Friday for them. And to give you a taste of a Giants game and why Giants fans don't stop believing, here's Steve Perry singing:  

 Friday was also Halloween.  In honor of Halloween we read this is class:

Two Witches 

       By Alexander Resnikoff

　

There was a witch.

The witch had an itch.

The itch was so itchy.

 It gave her a twitch.

Another witch admired the witch, so she started twitching though she had no itch.

Now both of them twitch, so it's hard to tell which witch has the itch ,and which witch has the twitch.

If you want to hear me reading the poem, click  here.

And this week in class we had the most wonderful presentations from all the students.  All I can say is:

• Way to Go!
• You Knocked Them Dead!
• You Rock!

We'll be back to our regular work next week and more vocabulary.