Welcome back! Today we will study at the new ERT location. Please let me know if you don't know where it is! Today is the first class in our new four class set. We will begin with our translation exercise. The following week we will have our translation test. 

The phrase of the week is, "it was a very meta moment." This is a trendy term that refers to self-awareness or self-referencing. For example, "Looking at your child is meta." Your child is an extension of you and in some ways looking at yourself. Another example would be, "I just read a meta-book." This means you read a book that was about other books, self-referencing. 

We will once again discuss persistence in our reading material. Our listening material is an interview with a guy who had never seen the film Titanic. Please listen for and create examples for the vocabulary words. Today we will focus on British slang. 

Vocabulary

• whippersnapper- a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident.
• thrupenny-bit- The British threepence (3d) coin, usually simply known as a threepence or threepenny bit, was a unit of currency equaling one eightieth of a pound sterling
• schmaltzy- excessively sentimental.
• bloody awful- a swear word that many people find offensive that is used to emphasize a comment or an angry statement

Click HERE for the reading material

Click HERE for the listening material