Callan OLD Edition Stage 11 Lesson 166 on pages 1124-1125

VOCABULARY:
ANNOUNCE
ANNOUNCER
ACADEMY
IRISH
B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Corporation)
BROADCAST
CORPORATION
BASICALLY
NEUTRAL
ENSURE　確実にする
SETTING
IN THE END

SENTENCE STRUCTURED:
The weather is fine and it was sunny.
Yes, the cherry blossoms are already blooming here in my place.
We will go to the park near my place next month to see the cherry blossoms.
We went to the amusement park to watch the illumination lights.
There are a lot of people.
The queue was so long and I have to wait for one hour.
I went to the Chinese restaurant for my dinner.
She went to hair salon for her hair cut.

CALLAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
1. AS THERE IS NO ENGLISH ACADEMY TO DETERMINE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, AND AS THERE ARE MANY ACCENTS (YORKSHIRE, IRISH, TEXAN ETC.) AMONG ENGLISH SPEAKERS, HOW CAN ONE KNOW WHAT STANDARD ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION SOUNDS LIKE?
As there is no English Academy to determine pronunciation and as there many accents among English speakers, one can know what standard English pronunciation sounds like by listening to the newsreaders and programme announcers on B.B.C. radio and television.

2. WHATS THE OPPOSITE OF A SHARP KNIFE OR A SHARP PENCIL?
The opposite of a sharp knife or a sharp pencil is a blunt knife or a blunt pencil.

VOCABULARY WITH EXAMPLES:
1. SETTING
The garden provided a perfect setting for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The theater program needs a setting of beach.

2. IN THE END
After much arguing we all decided, in the end, not to go to the cinema at all, but to go to a restaurant instead.
He tried to dig the ground many times, in the end, he found a gold.