Live and Learn English with Jean Lee

I'm going to give you some eight-letter words. For each one insert two letters in a row to make a familiar 10-letter word.   Ex. INTIMATE:  Add ID =>    INTIM ID ATE       1.    ALLIANCE     2.    DEMOTION     3.    TRAMLINE     4.    INHERENT     5.    PARTICLE     6.    LIBATION     7.    COALESCE     8.    INFINITE     9.    COMPRISE     ANSWER KEYS 1.   Add EG => ALL EG IANCE 2.   Add LI => DEMO LI TION 3.   Add PO => TRAM PO LINE 4.   Add CO => IN CO HERENT 5.   Add IP => PARTIC IP LE 6.   Add ER => LIB ER ATION 7.   Add NV => CON VA LESCE 8.   Add DE => IN DE FINITE, or Add IV => INFINIT IV E 9.   Add OM => COMPR OM ISE

  LIVE, LEARN, & LOVE Do you take delight in watching films or listening to pop music? For English learners, movies, songs, and books are one of the most wonderful sources to explore the language! You can indulge in your favorite pastime and still learn some expressions, words of wisdom, and oftentimes good lessons while you’re at it.   #5. “On the Shelf” sung by Donny & Marie Osmond This song conveys the deep sense of loss, frustration, heartbreak, and loneliness experienced after a breakup, using a lot of metaphors like a dog without a bone and a house that's not a home to illustrate the emptiness and abandonment felt by the artist.   I'm like a lock without a key Nobody wants to lean on me I ′ m so lonely, lonely without you Back on the shelf am I, baby Back on the shelf am I   The expression/ the title of the song “on the shelf” refers to somebody or something that is unwanted, not in use, abandoned ,inactive, or postponed (like a...

  WORKSHEET #88 Let’s practice some expressions from the episode #88 of  Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!    1.    Having grown up in the poverty-stricken hood galv____________ (*meaning “to arouse to awareness or action; spur”) Steve to do something to improve his lifetime community. He had the awakening moment one day that he would become a social worker to help with the at-risk children and their neglecting parents.     2.    His one-of-a-kind jokes brought the entire house down at the comedy club, which kn__________ out all his competitors. (*meaning “to thoroughly impress, overwhelm, or excite one”)   3.    The bor_______________ from his stomach sounded like the saddest requiem to my ears. (*meaning “rumbling or gurgling sounds made by gas, fluid, and food moving through your intestines, often caused by hunger or digestion”)   4.    The impeached former president Yoon of South Korea will be ...

WORKSHEET #87 Let’s practice some expressions from the episode #87 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!     1.    My father was a m___________ who was caring and warm-hearted. (*meaning “a person of integrity, honor, and kindness”)   2.    He told me about the attractive and cheerful hoo______________ (*meaning “informal gathering for folk music, often with an open mic for participants to play and sing, and sentences show it used for lively parties or even as a general term for a fun, chaotic event”) in the small town where a lot of hippies got together to smoke p_________ (*meaning “marijuana/ weed”) and desc______ upon (*meaning “to sing/play/discourse about something”) the atrocity of wars.   3.    Emerald T_________ (*meaning “a region in Northern California comprising Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties, renowned for cannabis cultivation”) is an area named and known for its legacy of prolific marijuana farming, which ...

WORKSHEET #86 Let’s practice some expressions from the episode #86 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!         1.    She was like the sunshine in his teneb_____________ life. (*meaning “dark; gloomy; causing gloom”)       2.    Jean got tired of the way he ina_________ tried to cheer her up with silly jokes. (*meaning “not suited to circumstances; improperly; inappropriately; incongruously”)       3.    My friends and I laughed so hard at our high school reunion, reminiscing about our funny old days when we were calling one another “ coo________ ”! (*meaning “head lice or imaginary disease. "Cootie" is a small insect that lives in people's hair (a head louse) It is also a child's term for an imaginary germ or disease that one can catch by touching a person who is disliked or socially avoided”)       4.    He was a total tatter________________ living in a dilapidated, crummy...

WORKSHEET #85 Let’s practice some expressions from the episode #85 of Dr. Jedidiah’s Diary!         1.    Joe did not know that his comments have been __________ban ned (*meaning “to block a user from a social media site or online   forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users”) by his close buddy Tim on Facebook.       2.    When I saw the documentary film about the Holocaust survivors, I felt it was way above and much more than a flesh and ____________ could ever stand. (*meaning “living being with human emotions or frailty, often in contrast to something abstract, spiritual, or mechanical”)       3.    My favorite actor Cillian Murphy is very good at interpreting the roles in the films that seem to be abst______________ directed to most movie goers. (*meaning “in a difficult way”)       4.    ...

LIVE, LEARN, & LOVE Do you take delight in watching films or listening to pop music? For English learners, movies, songs, and books are one of the most wonderful sources to explore the language! You can indulge in your favorite pastime and still learn some expressions, words of wisdom, and oftentimes good lessons while you’re at it.   #4.  Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child (authored by Noel Riley Fitch) “ In her old age, Julia joined that noble species, the Grand Old Gal – a common apotheosis for brilliant women. She may stand with her head tipped a little down and sideward, as Eleanor Roosevelt did when her back became stooped, but she is still the queen. Despite bum knees weakening her gait, and the occasional need to lean against the stove (or on the table), she worked at a barely diminished pace. After all, as she loved to point out, “Escoffier lived to be ninety-three and my old chef Max Bugnard lived to be ninety-six.” -    ...