Assignment #4 My notes on episode 1150

     Our CALL teacher introduced us another great English learning website, ESL Podcast. ESL Podcast is  run by a team of experienced ESL with 30 years of high school, adult, and university ESL teaching experience. The website provides dialogs and scrips for free. It also provides some learning guides if you pay for the membership.

     About ESL Podcast, I have something to share. Every dialog have their own topic, so before we start to play the conversation, we predict the content first. Second, we click the "Listen" button to start listening. The record is separated to three parts. First part, the host speaks in slowness. He then moves on to explain the content like the definitions of the words, the expressions of the phrases, etc. In the end of the record, he reads the dialog in the fast speed. In my opinion, listeners can print the script and write down the explanations. Just like what our teacher taught us, it really helps.

     Regarding my first time of listening to the episode 1150, here are some words and definitions I learned.

1. avoiding topics in conversation : not talking about certain thing
2. date : referring to romantic relationship  ex : go to a date
3. change the subject : to stop about one thing, and start to talk about another thing
4. not getting any younger : may soon be too old to do something
5. moving on : you want to stop talking on this topic, and move on to talk about another topic
6. settling down : like married, have a house, start family
7. alone : by yourself
8. lonely : feel sad, not physical
9. that reminds me : suddenly thought of something
10. break up : end romantic relationship with someone, indicating to boyfriend and girlfriend. (if it's a broken relationship in marriage, we call it "divorce") 
11. speaking of : introduce topic that is related to another person
12. type : the kind of person to whom you are attracted
13. leg man : informal one, who might be attracted to a woman who has long beautiful legs
14. diet : the kind of food you eat when someone who is losing weight
15. shedding those pounds : lose weight
16. anyway : talk about something different
17. cut out : to stop using it
18. sweets : anything that has a lot of sugar
19. that's none of your business : said in anger, because it's too personal to talk about
20. my sentiments exactly : agree completely with another person