21. Stay in School Flashcards
WHAT is it CALLED?
I don’t know WHAT it IS CALLED.
I don’t know HOW TO pronounce this word.
I don’t know HOW TO spell this word.
I do t know how to say this word.
HOW - how TO DO something
WHAT - names & labels ( NOUNs)
What is it called?
It’s called lighter.
It’s on a tip of my tongue
( you feel like you know that, but don’t remember right now IN this moment)
1) It’s on a tip of my tongue.
2) it slipped my mind.
I was supposed to text back him last night, and it SLIPPED my MIND.
I’m so sorry, I missed our appointment. I had an off day and it must have just SLIPPED my MIND.
3) Something escapes you
The name of that movie escapes me, I can’t think of it.
If
Something THROUGHS person OFF
Something is THROWING person OFF
It either confuses or surprises a person
When you don’t understand something, you can say
I’m LOST
You LOST me. Can you say that again?
I was so lost in my undergraduate astronomy class.
I’m FOLLOWING
I’m TRACKING
( I’m understanding everything that you’re saying)
Are you following me?
I was tracking up until the point he started talking about quantum physics. He lost me at quantum physics.
Or
I don’t get it.
I don’t get why the visa prices is so hard in certain countries.
GO OVER
(To cover or review some material)
We can GO OVER subject material, data, textbooks.
We go over native expressions.
Go OVER the chapter before class.
( read it first)
We’ll go over that in a next class.
Let’s go over the homework.
GO THROUGH material
(Search for something,
You’re going through it to find something)
Go through material
I’m going through the closet to find things to get rid of them
Go through this video and make a list of the vocabulary that is new for you.
LOOK OVER (read it)
V&
LOOK THROUGH ( search)
Look over a text ( read it)
Look over a website ( read it)
Look over a contract ( read it)
Look over the contract and let me know if there are any problems.
Please look over the material before class.
I look through apartments on Airbnb before I move to a new country.
When I look at Internet I look through the list of results before to click on something.
OVERLOOK something
( you didn’t see it, you missed it)
She got bad grades because she often overlook her homework.
LOOK INTO something
( investigate it)
She LOOKED INTO several companies before applying for a job.
I don’t have time to look into complicated visa processes. I just go to countries that make it easy to GET IN.
BRUSH UP ON
( knowledge or skills)
SKIM
(Read Quickly just to get the general idea what’s going on)
Opposite - Reading carefully
DIVE INTO
DO a DEEP DIVE
DO a DEEPER DIVE
About material/Text
GO OVER
GO THROUGH
Read about
Learn about
Talk about
Cover
Review
Look over
Look through
Study
CRAMMING
(Last minute studying,
Go over material before the test
When the information goes to your short-term memory)
MEMORIES sometimes
( know it by heart)
REMEMBER
RECALL
