【PV】今日の学び_20101013

Private Lesson

TVで見ると、「花のパリ」って場所だけど、実際はそうでもないらしい。
労働者のストで会社や学校が休業。電車もバスも止まっていて、街が静か。
日本だとびっくりするような話も、ここでは日常茶飯事とのこと…。

そんなパリの片隅から、今日のLessonコールがなる。

● Phrasal Verbs : a verb ＋preposition

・ He picked up the box. (lifte)

・He put out his cigarette. (extinguished)

・He looked over the material. (reviewed)

・Turn it off. (stop, extinguish)

・Turn it up. (increase the volume) – The car needs a tune-up. (noun)

・Turn it on. (to light, to start)

・That turns me off. (disgust)  - That’s such a turnoff! (noun)

・Turn it down. (decrese the volume)

・She turned him down. (reject a request or a person)

・He didn’t turn up. (uppear, arrive)

・They turned me away. (reject, refuse)

● Abbreviations and Numbers : the last letter has stress

・MBA, CNN, FBI

・1997, 11:45, 911