Words:

1- Sininster
2- Roar
3- Outward
4- Anxiety
5- Region
6- Gloomy
7- Fidget
8- Meddle

I For One:

Today I will tell about expressions using numbers. Let us start with the number one. Numbers can be tricky. On the one hand, they are simply numbers. On the other hand, they have meanings. I, for one use these expressions a lot.

Many people consider themselves Number one the most important person. They are always looking out for Number one and taking care of Number one. It is as if they are the one and only person on Earth.

Some people, however, are not so self-centered. My brother is such a person. It is true. No joke. I am not trying to pull a fast one on you.

First, you have to understand that my brother is one in a million. He is such a nice person. All his friends like him. They consider him one of the boys.

Recently, my brother had a bad day at the office. It was just one of those days. Nothing went right. So he stopped at a local bar, a drinking place, after leaving work. My brother planned to have a glass of beer with his friends, a quick one, before he went home.

But a quick one turned into one or two, and soon those became one, two, many. As my brother was leaving, he ordered a last drink, one for the road. His friends became concerned. One by one, they asked him if he was able to drive home safely.

Now, my brother is a wise and calm person. He is at one with himself. He recognizes when he has had too much alcohol to drink. So, he accepted an offer for a ride home from a female friend.

At one time in the past, my brother had been in love with this woman. She is a great person, kind, thoughtful and intelligent. All good qualities rolled up into one.

But sadly, their relationship did not work. He always used to say, “One of these days, I am going to marry this girl.” But that never happened.

For one thing, she did not love him as much as he loved her. It was just one of those things. The situation was regrettable and my brother had to accept it. But even now, he considers her the one that got away.

However, they are still friends. And because my brother had been kind to her, she felt that one good turn deserves another. He was good to her and she wanted to help him in return.

So she drove him home. If my brother had driven home from the bar that night, his number would have been up. Something bad would have happened.

Thankfully, he made it home safely. And he and the woman are back to square one. They　are back to where they started, being friends.

Song: One is the loneliest number that you ever do. Two can be as bad as one, it’s the loneliest number seems the number one, Ah~~

Present Perfect OR Simple Present

Words:

1- Appeal
2- Tempt
3- Insult
4- Exchange
5- Trade down
6- Trade in
7- Margin
8- Mayer
9- Council
10-Funky
11-Fulllengh dress

Pronounciation - ed

work > worked [t] want > wanted [Id]
warn > warned [d] weld > welded [Id]

Write the phonetic symbol for each -ed verb ending: [d], [t] or [Id]:

1 landed
2 expected
3 asked
4 regarded
5 decided
6 packed
7 locked
8 answered
9 stopped [t]
10 requested
11 added
12 wished
13 liked
14 divided
15 played
16 multiplied
17 listened
18 listed
19 permitted
20 explored


Reading practice
When Bond arrived at the renovated Château, darkness had descended. He examined the shadowy building. Its ground-floor windows were closed and shuttered. He glanced at his watch. He concluded that there was no time to lose and decided to enter conventionally. He tried the gold-leafed front door but it was locked, barred and bolted. He realized he needed a ladder. He looked around and noticed one on the grass. Noiselessly, he propped it up against the freshly painted balcony and started to climb. He had nearly reached the top when he spotted headlights approaching. A large car pulled in through the gate. By the time it arrived at the door, Bond had already jumped through the balcony window and discovered the cause of his anxiety.

Phrasal Verb:

1- Bring about
2- call on
3- Come down with
4- Count on
5- Cut down
6- Get away from
7- hand out
8- Keep up
9- Look up to

Pronounce the name of animals

lepard
zebra
giraffe
crocodile
moose
mouse
bear
turtle
lizard
penguin
sheep
calf
worm
whale

Typical Errors:

Grammar: Verbs of direct authority:

let, make, have. With these 3 verbs, the second verb form is the infinitive without to.
Examples:
I let him do it.
He made me sit down.
Have him tell you what he saw!
Of these three verbs, only one can be used in the passive, make : Example, I was made to take off my skates.
Don’t confuse let and leave: when followed by an object and a subsidiary clause, leave means abandon, quit.
We left him to get on with his work. (i.e. we went away) does not mean the same as We let him get on with his work (i.e. we allowed him to....)

Do Your Best!

1-Jim pulled some string with the manager of the team and got the best seats.
2-Mary's marks have been going down lately because she is spreading herself too thin.
3-Don was getting into some trouble at work but his secretary went to bat for him.
4-I always have trouble hooking up stereo connections but that's duck soup for him.
5-with this high cost of living it's really difficult to make ends meet.
6-I'm not much of an electrician, but I'll give it my best shot.
7-She gave her a frown and told him to mind her P's and Q's.
8-Do you think it's the time to get the ball rolling?
9-michael's last novel was a best seller. he Doesn't need to toot his own horn!.
10-I want to get a jump on my Christmas shopping.
11- Once he makes his mind , he sticks to his guns.

Ask,Ask,Ask

The greatest saleswoman in the world today doesn't mind if you call her a girl. That's because Markita Andrews has generated more than eighty thousand dollars selling Girl Scout cookies since she was seven years old.

Going door-to-door after school, the painfully shy Markita transformed herself into a cookie-selling dynamo when she discovered, at age 13, the secret of selling.

It starts with desire. Burning, white-hot desire.

For Markita and her mother, who worked as a waitress in New York after her husband left them when Markita was eight years old, their dream was to travel the globe. "I'll work hard to make enough money to send you to college," her mother said one day.

"You'll go to college and when you graduate, you'll make enough money to take you and me around the world. Okay?"
So at age 13 when Markita read in her Girl Scout magazine that the Scout who sold the most cookies would win an all-expenses-paid trip for two around the world, she decided to sell all the Girl Scout cookies she could - more Girl Scout cookies than anyone in the world, ever.

But desire alone is not enough. To make her dream come true, Markita knew she needed a plan.

"Always wear your right outfit, your professional garb," her aunt advised. "When you are doing business, dress like you are doing business. Wear your Girl Scout uniform. When you go up to people in their tenement buildings at 4:30 or 6:30 and especially on Friday night, ask for a big order. Always smile, whether they buy or not, always be nice. And don't ask them to buy your cookies; ask them to invest."

Lots of other Scouts may have wanted that trip around the world. Lots of other Scouts may have had a plan. But only Markita went off in her uniform each day after school, ready to ask - and keep asking - folks to invest in her dream. "Hi, I have a dream. I'm earning a trip around the world for me and my mom by merchandising Girl Scout cookies," she'd say at the door. "Would you like to invest in one dozen or two dozen boxes of cookies?"

Markita, the greatest saleswoman sold 3,526 boxes of Girl Scout cookies that year and won her trip around the world. Since then, she has sold more than 42,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, spoken at sales conventions across the country, starred in a Disney movie about her adventure and has co-authored the best seller, How to Sell More Cookies, Condos, Cadillacs, Computers ... And Everything Else.

Markita is no smarter and no more extroverted than thousands of other people, young and old, with dreams of their own. The difference is Markita, the greatest saleswoman had discovered the secret of selling: Ask, Ask, Ask! Many people fail before they even begin because they fail to ask for what they want. The fear of rejection leads many of us to reject ourselves and our dreams long before anyone else ever has the chance - no matter what we're selling.

And everyone is selling something. "You're selling yourself everyday - in school, to your boss, to new people you meet," said Markita at 14. "My mother is a waitress: she sells the daily special. Mayors and presidents trying to get votes are selling... I see selling everywhere I look. Selling is part of the whole world."

It takes courage to ask for what you want. Courage is not the absence of fear. It's doing what it takes despite one's fear. And, as Markita has discovered, the more you ask, the easier (and more fun) it gets.

Once, on live TV, the producer decided to give Markita her toughest selling challenge. Markita was asked to sell Girl Scout cookies to another guest on the show. "Would you like to invest in one dozen or two dozen boxes of Girl Scout cookies?" she asked.

"Girl Scout cookies? I don't buy any Girl Scout cookies!" he replied. "I'm a Federal Penitentiary warden. I put 2,000 rapists, robbers, criminals, muggers and child abusers to bed every night."

Unruffled, Markita quickly countered, "Mister, if you take some of these cookies. maybe you won't be so mean and angry and evil. And, Mister, I think it would be a good idea for you to take some of these cookies back for every one of your 2,000 prisoners, too."

Markita, the greatest saleswoman asked. The Warden wrote a check.