Callan New Edition Stage 9 Lesson 140 on pages 787-788

レッスンで出てきた文法・単語

Sentence Structures:  The idiom"hard up "with means "with very little money". A four-legged animal, a blue-eyed baby. The main unit of currency in my country is yen. When we speak about driving a car, the opposite of "to slow down" is "to speed up". The name of a dish that's peculiar to my country is baked crocodile. The difference between a nail and a screw s that we hammer a nail into something with a hammer, whereas we screw a screw into something by turning it with a screwdriver. Vocabulary words:  rapid screw screwdriver GRAMMAR:  hard up = with very little money.  e.g. I can't let you have any money this week; I'm really hard up. DICTATION:  We spent the whole afternoon/ gathering up the apples that had fallen on the ground.  A railway line does not have to be level but it should not climb too rapidly, otherwise a train cannot run on it.  When we weighed the cake my father was very surprised.  He had not realized/ it would weigh so much.  The theatre seats were well made, so the audience were able to relax and watch the play in comfort.  For one brief moment, I was certain he would succeed.  corrected words:seats-comfort-weighed