【英语趣味课堂】天气情况-The Weather
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（单词翻译）
Todd: Hey, Marika!
Marika: Hey!
Todd: How you doing?
Marika: I'm OK. How are you?
Todd: Good. Marika do you like summer?
Marika: No, I don't like summer it's my least favorite summer.
Todd: Wow, why?
Marika: Because I don't like hot weather. I don't like being hot and sweaty and uncomfortable.
Todd: OK. Well, it's pretty hot in Japan so you must not like summer here.
Marika: No, I don't.
Todd: Is it hot in summer where you're from?
Marika: Yeah, it's pretty hot but usually we go away on the weekends to cottages and we go swimming in lakes and
stuff1.
Todd: Oh, that's nice. Where are you from by the way?
Marika: Canada.
Todd: So, what's your favorite season?
Marika: Winter or fall.
Todd: OK. Well, what do you do in the winter?
Marika: In the winter, activities you mean?
Todd: Yeah.
Marika: I go snowboarding and I go to onsens and I walk around and I enjoy the cold weather.
学习内容：
Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
sweaty or uncomfortable
I don't like being hot and sweaty and uncomfortable.
We are 'sweaty' when we are really hot or when we exercise. Sweat is when water leaves your body through your skin. When we don't feel right or normal we feel 'uncomfortable.' Being uncomfortable can mean we are
physically2 uncomfortable like too hot, too cold, sick, hungry or even
emotionally3 uncomfortable like
embarrassed4. Notice the following:
I'm sweaty because I just finished running.
Is that chair uncomfortable?
go away
When it's hot, we usually go away on the weekends to relax.
When we take a trip or a vacation to a place we 'go away' there. Notice the following:
You need to go away for a weekend.
We go away for a little vacation every March.
by the way
Where are you from, by the way?
We can use this
phrase5 to add or ask for extra information that maybe is different than the subject we are talking about. Notice the following:
She wants to meet you, by the way.
By the way, where did you get that purse?
snowboarding
I go snowboarding in the winter.
'Snowboarding' is like skateboarding or surfing but on snow. Both of your feet are
attached6 to a board and you turn by
shifting7 your weight to the front and back. Notice the following:
My body hurts from snowboarding yesterday.
You have to try snowboarding this winter.
walk around
I walk around and enjoy the cold weather.
'Walking around' is walking without any destination. It is for exercise and experience. Notice the following:
We should walk around the lake after dinner.
She can spend hours walking around the mall and never buy anything.
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