Today is the third class of our current four class set. We will start to work with some dialogues and practice our delivery. So, we will use a dialogue as our reading material. In class we will recite and deliver the lines, so please practice out loud at home! This week's dialogue is about doing on a diet, not that it applies to any of you!

         Our listening material is short, artistic, and a little difficult to understand. What is the speaker trying to tell us? Listening to different accents is an important skill. Especially if you are a world traveler. As always, please prepare your sentences for each idiom, and try to use the vocabulary words during our discussion. 

Idioms

• "worse comes to worse"- If nothing else works, your final option. Ex. Nobody wants to cook? Worse comes to worse we can always order a pizza
• "look on the bright side"- Be optimistic Ex. I heard you lost your job. Hey, but look on the bright side, now you can pursue your dream.
• "beside the point"- not important or irrelevant. Ex. A. I am sorry I had to cancel dinner. B. That is beside the point, it was my Birthday!
• "can't stand"- can't tolerate Ex. I can't stand it when people throw trash on the ground. 

Vocabulary

• essence
• shed
• strenuous
• obese

Click HERE for the dialogue

Click HERE for the transcript of the listening material