Lesson # 19

1. TED again! And the today's theme is tremendously serious!

Lisa Kristine - Glimpses about modern  slavery

Words you'll maybe need (just copy and enter them into Google Translate!):

slick

shaft

oddly

kiln

disposable

scorching

inconsequential

slate

hoisted

insidious

pervasive

rallied

persevere

quarry 

lease of their own

venues

plywood

weary

to untether the lines 

panning for gold

wading in water

pounding sites

awe

unimaginable odds

plight

bondage

2. In this item we'll meet a new opportunity to become 'like natives'! 

5 Most Useful English Expressions that you never learned at school

Here I say it about vocabulary - more even about understanding! Let you r little accent doesn't embarrass you!

3. 3 words never to use - and the whole list of words instead! This lesson with Lucy is rather interesting due to her suggestions of words you can use instead of 'very' -'thing'-'said'...Really, when writing, the words-parasite happen awfully often! The suggestion is accepted! Thanks!

4. Grammar Time! As usual - we'll talk about smth usually met and often confused! So, here we have to be careful an accurate:

What's up? I mean, were there some news?..

5. A little training session for you: do you remember this list of words - item 3 of the lesson 20?

I propose to do a nice job: put them all through ReversoContext - choosing sentences to hear and repeat - Shadowing, my darling, shadowing! Suppose, you aren't afraid of your own shadow?!

Just a joke!

6. Now - Real News!

By the way, do you remember how they write date in the USA?

MM.DD.YYYY!!!

cnn - news for students - 02.04.2019

See you later, my dear friends!