I'm a challenging person (?)

( a challenging student)

I'm a person who likes challenges, to challenge authority figures, 

I'm a bit of a rebel, 

always steps up to meet any challenge

Do you become a chatterer when you meet your friends?

chatterbox (negative)

[Travelling is hard work sometimes]

Smokers should/will deserve have some heart problems

change my job/role,position

FIRSTLY I worry about my son, at first

FIRST AND FOREMOST

PRON

/f/

rainfall

feed

rainfall feeds the soil

2

Vocab

[chained to a desk]

[familiarity breeds contempt]

rigid about following standard procedures/formatting guidelines

a focus on process rather than product

anal (informal)

DON'T BE SO ANAL

getting out and about--also means moving around

Grammar

Every JOB THAT the employees did was a boring desk job

3

Grammar/Vocab

I became DEVELOPED/HAVE a sweet tooth

Tea can reduce THE RISK OF heart attacks

Prepositions

Teachers are more patient of WITH their students

I want to spend all my money ON ME/MYSELFjust myself

[craves affection]

hugs from backside ? FROM BEHIND

That can be/could be the main reason

Pron

community

DELICATE palate

researchers

Living in China was very fantastic

EXTREME ADJECTIVE

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC

You can speak Chinese now, CAN YOU? [this isn't a question]

ALMOST Everyone has to/should take the Korean SAT 

HAS TO

What kind of test DID you pass?

I enjoyed IT

There is a picture taken OF me in a tricycle

The food has good taste IS TASTY

I did an internship in THE Philippines

too much polite

TOO POLITE

Vocab

Seriously!?

Pron

bow bowed

test/taste

2

Grammar

I think it does IS for every Korean [the result of years of hard work]

It is very long years to study

KOREANS SPEND A LONG TIME/MANY YEARS STUDYING ENGLISH

I'm still finding LOOKING FOR the proper way to learn English

Vocab

I don't really want to [WEAK]/I really don't want to [STRONG]

British Newspapers (Apps on I-Pad/Android)

Guardian (high brow)

Times (RIGHT WING BIAS)

Telegraph (low brow)

Daily Mail (TABLOID--GUTTER PRESS)

Magazine

Economist

Pron

language /GW/ /IDGE/

can/can't

hat/hard

It's not common TO talk to strangers

When I was on A business trip I usually USED TO talk with strangers

Even if there is WERE no smartphoneS...

hairs HAIRSTYLES

Vocab

an icebreaker

It's a good icebreaker

NOT When I have icebreaker

Pron

It's really sad (stress)

2

General Point

Facial expressions didn't match bad news. Need to frown more (?) siGH in sympathy

Too much ah ah ah and ah......

Not enOugh pain in tone

Grammar

Terrible, terrible, terrible!

The air conditioning is broken up BROKEN DOWN

PEOPLE BREAK UP

My computer HAS just crashed

You should go to the next town--OR ELSE you'll die!

I'm very annoying ANNOYED

It was a PIECE OF chewing gum

3

Grammar

I've BEEN WAITING waited for one hour

Maybe he's drunken

DRUNK

We should complain to someone IN charge of this

WHO'S IN CHARGE!?

Where did/DO you come from DID YOU BOARD?

We should/have to HAVE TO sit here and do nothing

What's your plan to go to Jeju Island? What are you going to do on Jeju Island? WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO?

What/How HOW can I help you?

WHAT CAN I DO?

The captain is driving SAILING in a drunken state

We're very sorry for waiting MAKING YOU WAIT you for a long time

We'll consider THAT next time

BEAR THAT IN MIND IN THE FUTURE

Vocab 

The food has gone off/it's rotten/it's rank/IT STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN

slurring his words

a tongue twister

EL PERRO CORRE POR LA CARRETERA

4

How long do you usually take your holidays?

HOW LONG ARE YOUR HOLIDAYS?

HOW MANY DAYS HOLIDAYS DO YOU GET?

When I was young I USED TO believe in ghosts

At that time my condition wasn't good/

I was in bad physical condition OR 

I wasn't in great condition OR 

I felt as sick as a dog for a long time/OR 

I was feeling under the weather/

I was at death's door

listen to music

throwing money away/down the drain (wasting money)

Pron

phrase

Sometimes I miss the attached file

FORGET TO ATTACH THE FILE

They said 'no smile'

THEY TOLD ME THAT I SHOULDN'T SMILE SO MUCH

graded along a curve

I regret to go GOING to university in Korea

REGRET+ING HAVING+PARTICIPLE

I felt like it is WAS escaping reality

Pron

These dayS

Grammar

If I top up much A LOT OF money on my card I always lose IT

MUCH/MANY ? -

+ A LOT

Three days before AGO I lost my cards in Japan

2

Grammar

I should solve the problem/I should be able to solve the problem

I'm a teacher so I should/must be careful what I say in front of my students and their parents

Pron

So, we meet again! Yes [falling intonation]

/f/ /t/

software

3

Vocab

With a large group of friends I clam up.

I wish I won't have any regrets in the future

hope+future

I know what HOW he feels

I KNOW JUST WHAT HE FEELS LIKE

Have you ever done it/one?

I'm always nervous doing an English interview an interview in English

Vocab

I'm kind of working at last minute/I leave everything to the last minute//plan everything in advance

It's not true to FOR me

BE TRUE TO ME

Do an interview

Pass a test/exam

I scraped it (IN) /I just passed it (an exam) I SCRAPED AN A

Be successful in an interview

2

Grammar

he or her SHE HIM OR HER

If he's THE only one, we ask about the sports he likes to find out about his personality

Use 'would' more. It's an imaginary situation, unless your job is in recruitment

Vocab

apply FOR the position

aptitude/ability

Pron

/i/ /i:/ fill feel

FEEL PHILLIP FILL THE FURNITURE

position physician

part-time

interviewer/interviewee

3

Grammar

I'm A very diligent person

As I told SAID I have several experienceS in leading projects

I have learned management skillS during that project

Vocab

I'm easy to work late/I'm flexible about working late

good communication skills

show flexibility

Pron

/f/ /p/

unfortunately

confident

fluent

managed /d/

strategies

draw drew drawn

Some answers are THE same, some are different

Pron

YOU DIRTY PIG

pig peak peek

I took a peek at a pig on a peak

EMpathise empaTHETic

gut instinct

neat/need I need you to be neat and tidy

GEStures

punctual

PUNCTURE

Vocab

cluttered= messy/dirty

neat= tidy/clean

You rarely see LOOK AT the clock

[a clock watcher]

It's related TO my job

I have to BE creative

I try to use both sideS of THE brain

[I'm not remotely analytical]

I have made an application three months ago

I MADE

What was the REASON FOR THE rejection ?

I believe I can WILL BE ABLE TO get a higher score next year

[If at first you don't succeed, try, try again]

It's kind of A waste of time

Repetition of 'maybe'

Maybe she doesn't like taking photo her TAKING PHOTOS OF HERSELF

Vocab

I've no idea

[I haven't got the foggiest idea!

I DON'T HAVE A CLUE]

Pron

paRAde

IT RAINED ON MY PARADE

2

Grammar

What kind of dance DID you perform?

Vocab

tiny portions

It depends ON position of the people at the party

[pull a pint/pour a drink]

General Points

EYE CONTACT

1 Extreme adjectives=extreme pronunciation

2 Not stressing key words enough

3 Not using 'so' enough with adjectives

3

a bird's eye view

attend mass

it was packed /packed like sardines

Nexy year he will HE'S COMING come again

I like music WHICH makes me awake

Vocab

repetetive

2

I bought only Korean pop CD'S

That opera was very ABSOLUTELY electrifying

Her voice doesn't really touching TOUCH my heart

Vocab

[change the channel, surf channels]

I love French musicalS

Do you have any favourite singerS?

ANY+PLURAL

The only way of buying music is USED TO BE to buy cassetteS

I can't understand the lyricS

rhyme

Pron

genre JOHN

Be careful with the final consonant

Big Bang

rock

pop

app

"Music soothe the savage beast"

"If music be the food of love, play on" Shakespeare

When I was A child my DREAM job was TO BECOME A diplomat

Most Korean people think like me

I don't have any plans to move my job

MOVE HOUSE

CHANGE MY JOB/ROLES

A tour guide should MUST /HAS TO work irregularly

very ABSOLUTELY critical

after graduation

Vocab

I don't have to do any kind of overwork OVERTIME OT

evaluation/estimation

Pron

What is WHAT'S your dream job?

gossip

Are you happy with that? (intonation RISES WITH YES/NO QUESTIONS)

profit sharing

2

Vocab

ACT IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE

[Take it or leave it!]

[They want to keep you in the dark about some of the packages the company offers]

[tailor the benefit system to each employee]

Pron

quickly qu=/kw/ Kick me quickly!

3

Vocab

We'd like to show you our appreciation

What's your bottom line?

inflation rate

Pron

30/13

I was crashed by a snowboarder

a snowboarder crashed into me

Have you EVER tried IT?

He told me TO cut down ON beer

Vocab

I hardly EVER go to the doctor's

ACUTE//chronic pain/condition

I never get cold/GET A COLD/CATCH COLDS

IMMUNE SYSTEM

If I have HAD a lot of ills ILLNESSES I don't want WOULDN'T WANT to live to be a 100

I would make my body higher TALLER

I'D LIKE TO BE TALLER

GENERAL

Not using contractions enough

Not using conditionals enough

2

Pron 

embryo

purpose

General Point--Use adverbs a lot more

probable, possibly, definitely etc

Grammar

My leg was broken

I BROKE MY LEG

This happens already/This is happening already

It can happen/It might be happening now

Vocab

eradicate/eradication

The environment can't support another 7 billion people

farm organs

an ethical minefield

a virus mutates

3

Grammar

He thought that by 2010 plastic surgery (develop) a lot

"will develop" "would develop" "would have developed"

[future in the past]

vocab

150 (UK)

150,150

150,150,150

Pron

cheat sheet

ship sheep

infertile

plastic surgery

Vocab

rejuvenated

I have an exam so I should/must study a lot

Every Korean man should HAS TO have a paintballing experience during THEIR basic training

The longest bungee jump

Even if it's WAS free I wouldn't do that

If I have HAD a chance I'd GO caving

IT'D Depend on my physical condition

Vocab

An adrenalin rush

ADRENALIN JUNKIE

hydrophobia

claustrophobia ENCLOSED SPACES

agoraphobia OPEN SPACES

arachnophobia SPIDERS

2

Vocab

Please give me some luck

WISH ME LUCK

Pron

Arctic

Antarctic

Sumo

Pole

I'll take a picture of me on the pig PEAK

K G

PIG ON THE PEAK

3

Grammar

I arrived three hours IN advance OF the flight

If I didn't have my two dogs I would keep the kittens

IF I HADN'T HAD TWO DOGS I WOULD HAVE KEPT THE KITTENS

I lost my voice FOR about 10 months

Vocab

Nose blooding BLEED

Retina

URBAN LEGEND

Depend on the issue IT DEPENDS

In my personal LIFE 

DEALING WITH PERSONAL issues

Vocab

I go to the bookstore [the self-help section]

I'm a worker

I'M WORKING AT THE MOMENT

office husband/wife

[She's more a friend than a colleague]

SOUL MATE

LIKE TWO PEAS IN A POD

PLATONIC

[silent as the grave]

giving a lecture/teach a class

ATTEND A LECTURE/GO TO A CLASS

Pron

my bet friend BEST

share

caring and sharing

2

Vocab

matchmaking

set someone up with someone

earwigging

a dirty dark secret

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

After graduating FROM some music school

face the problem FACE AN ISSUE /face up to the problem

I wouldn't birth HAVE another child

Grammar

She can SHE'LL PROBABLY get more money a few years later IN A FEW YEAR'S TIME

Conditionals

1) If I ask her she'll know I don't trust her REAL

2) If I asked her she'd know...UNREAL IMAGINARY

3) If I had asked her she would have known... IMAGINARY PAST

Only Range Rover is enough

SHE WON'T SETTLE FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN A RANGE ROVER

Pron

merry Mary married

My husband comes from a pig BIG family

I don't HAVEN'T maDe a MAJOR decision yet

Now I really regret IT

When I was abroad

I wish the best of luck for you

I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK

It was quite A small company

I didn't feel like to work WORKING with them

Vocab

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse

In my case ?

[run it by someone]

RUN INTO

[start my life all over]

Pron

Food

language (pron)

2

Vocab

[The eyes are the windows to the soul]

glance/look at/stare/glare

STEAL A GLANCE

rigid/determined

stiff/He's a real stiff!

DON'T BE SUCH A STIFF!

Pron

appropriate (ate=/it/)

participate

purpose PROPOSE

3

Grammar

It can motivate our staff

If our staff are WERE given more training they would accept a pay cut

Vocab

in the short time TERM

IN THE MEDIUM TO LONG TERM

It won't be that convenient

Our opponents SPORT/competitors

I should/must/have to talk to strangers

When I was young I felt so difficult to talk to strangers

TALKING TO STRANGERS FELT DIFFICULT

I FOUND IT SO DIFFICULT TO TALK TO STRANGERS

He looks like more Japanese

HE LOOKS MORE JAPANESE THAN CHINESE

Vocab

ask for direction/ask for directions

strike/struck/struck

hellful/helpful

2

Grammar

I didn't have electricity yesterday

That must have been so annoying

-

Vocab

I've counted/lost count LOST COUNT OF HOW MANY TIMES I'VE of the amount of time I've complained about this

Did you make a complainT about this?

They don't seem to take an action about that

THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING/LIFT A FINGER

We have to shout AT/TO each other

ship=captain

plane=pilot

car/bus/train=driver

I WAS put on hold for 30 minutes

whine/complain

a whinger

a whinging pom (Australia)

Pron

The room is very coal COLD

3

Grammar

It is a THE lameST excuse that I'VE ever heard

It was very REALLY terrible

Our family is only used to eatING healthy food

USED TO+INFINITIVE

BE USED TO+ING (ACCUSTOMED TO)

-You'll have a warm room tonight

I'll try to give you a warm room tonight

Let me assure you that we will do everything possible to ensure that your room is as warm as possible tonight

[resolve an issue

solve a problem]

If I lost my pass I can't COULDN'T enter the office

Have you considered taking A Pilates CLASS?

The more MOST serious PROBLEM for me is WOULD BE

You are painful?

ARE YOU IN PAIN?

IT WAS PAINFUL!

Vocab

Mine is very low[It's very low down//HIGH UP on my list of priorities]

osteopath

[bolt your food down/gulp your drink down]

2

Grammar

How about lockING UP the stationary

-

Forget about it

Just forget about it

You should just forget about it

I think you should just forget about it

If you don't mind me saying so, I think you should just forget about it

-

Are you going to do this [REAL EVENT]/Would you do this in your company?

Pron

My office is always coal COLD

That might just wok WORK

Vocab

Buy a new office chair personally

buy YOUR OWN CHAIR

I not do HAVEN'T DONE interviews for a long time

One years YEAR ago

I must be careful of ABOUT everything I do

Every person has IS willing to move to a better job

Vocab

Every interview is MAKES ME nervous

makes me nervous

It's nerve-wrecking

Pron

I talk about my fillings FEELINGS

2

I have to make a story on it

[make up/invent/concoct a story]

Isn't it discrimination to base your opinion on family background

[discriminatory]

3

Grammar

Is your main strength IS patience, isn't it?

Same, always same

IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME

You have two jobs until now

YOU'VE HAD TWO JOBS SO FAR

I speak a little bit OF Japanese

I SPEAK JAPANESE A BIT

I've worked at the department store

I'VE BEEN WORKING [NOW]

What is CRA? Could you tell me what you mean by CRA?

It can't be so, never/It'll never happen!

Vocab

conservate CONSERVE

landlord

Pron

languages

3

If I didn't grab them, maybe I could fall down

Vocab

The trees were falling down/being blown down

The wind nearly blew me down/away

cut/gouge/slash

do military service--I did my military service in

2

Grammar

You don't MUSTN'T tie them too tightLY

You should must/had better

SHALL

CINDERELLA

YOU SHALL GO TO THE BALL

It doesn't matter, the colour

THE COLOUR DOESN'T MATTER

Under the tree is dangerous?

IS STAYING UNDER THE TREES DANGEROUS?

Vocab

Be colour blind (literal and figurative meaning)

You first!

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO FIRST?

Heaven haven

a safe haven

If you are in indoorS (NO 'IN)

Pron

woundED

How much MANY hours do you normally work?

I have written/am writing a column in a newspaper

Vocab

We have a tenure HAVE TENURE

My boss wants me to do more jobs WORK/TASKS than I do now

I can't get TAKE long holidays

headquarterS

It's about MY JOB INVOLVES medical deviceS

Pron

child shy wild

Were you a shy child or a wild child?

psychiatry psychiatrist

clinical trials

2

Grammar

[mOVING ON TO/LET'S GO ON TO, WHAT ABOUT]

At the end year YEAR END/END OF THE YEAR our company payS A the bonus

What do you work? WHAT DO YOU DO? WHERE DO YOU WORK?

My company provideS A car

I have GET AN end-of-year bonus but it's small money IT'S A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY/JUST POCKET MONEY REALLY

However LONG we work, the PAYMENT ceiling is 12 hours

...WE CAN ONLY CLAIM UP TO 12 HOURS OT

EVEN If I work overtime I don't ask the money CLAIM OVERTIME/PUT IN AN OT CLAIM

Vocab

benefit/perk (fringe benefit)

Whenever I eat HAVE lunch I don't have to pay

[meals allowance]

[child care facility]

Pron

pharmaceutical

3

Grammar

Things have changed/things are changing

Everybody thinkS like that

We ask the candidate how much you get now WHAT'S YOUR CURRENT SALARY

[...what salary do you expect?]

Vocab

I should be between my company and the store owners [I act as an intermediary between...]

Nurses have union [Nurses are unionised/have a powerful union]

There is a rule that 5%/10% negotiation [can negotiate within a 5 or 10 per cent band]

I don't care/I wouldn't care

[I wouldn't give a monkey's]

It would depend ON the nationality

One of my colleagues always bites HER nails

Vocab

He would make a bad impression ON me

dirty/ unhygienic

Pron

General Point

Contractions are BEST

I'd feel better if he'd use contractions. Wouldn't you?

It's about a 40-minute drive

tram ride

It's quite A crowded place

My last workplace was in a basement

- A

They cared FOR/ABOUT their children

I'd like my closing time to be on time

I'D LIKE TO FINISH ON TIME

CLOCK OF

Vocab

crutches/clutch

[FOH /BOH Back Office]

Pron

wholesaler

ideal

_____________________

General Points

1) Use adverbs more to describe differences

It's significantly higher, slightly larger, massively different

2) Speculate on reasons behind differences

This was probably due to the age and marital status of the respondents

This might have been the result of...

Vocab

Culinary Arts

Grammar

equipments

------------------------------

Vocab

According to the law we are forced to set up disabled facilities

[Disabled access is a legal obligation/a moral responsibility]

unINconvenient

sound proof NOISE REDUCTION

noise pollution

They can check up on their workers all the time

Big Brother

Grammar

I'm I've been using my desk more than 10 years

__________________________

Pron

massage/message

Grammar

It would definitely BE a good idea

Amazing! How amazing!

Not many chance to see her often

I DON'T GET MANY CHANCES TO SEE HER

Yesterday I have talk HAD A CHAT with my father

Two weeks later IN TWO WEEKS (TIME) there will be WE'LL CELEBRATE THE Lunar New Year's holiday

As for me it is so MUCH more convenient to make a call

It is not convenient for me to make a reservation on TH internet

Vocab

orthodontist orthodontistry

Pron

/p/ /f/

flight

a flight for Peter, Paul and Phillip

_________________

Grammar

I choose that one

I'LL HAVE/TAKE THAT ONE/PICK

Is it possible to COME next Wednesday?

Vocab

No roblem, OK./That'll be fine

Pron 

massage

_____________

Grammar

It lifts your skins SKIN

Vocab

According to the researches

RESEARCH

makes your skin lifted

LIFTS YOUR SKIN

A FACE LIFT

[It's just snake oil]

[give someone the hard sell/SOFT SOAP]