Date: 02/14/2025
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Student: Dawoon Kim
Topic: How beer sludge is being turned into vegan milk and leather
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250206-how-brewers-spent-grain-is-being-turned-into-vegan-barley-milk-leather-and-cakes
Sentence Construction:
X I think I can arrive my home before 6:00PM. >> I think I can arrive home before 6:00 PM.
X When I out the company some my colleagues told me she told me can you help me? >> When I was leaving the company, some of my colleagues asked me, "Can you help me?" / When I was about to leave the company, one of my colleagues asked, 'Can you help me?'"
X I will go to my parent's house for dinner so it is why I leave my company. >> I will go to my parents’ house for dinner, which is why I’m leaving the company.
X Every Friday, the road is crowded. >> Every Friday, the roads are crowded.
X I think it is good way to make another profit from their product like beer companies can get another profit from changing their waste to other products. >> I think it’s a good way to make additional profit from their products, like how beer companies can generate extra profit by turning their waste into other products.
X I don't know how can make this product. >> I don’t know how to make this product.
X How can make clothes from beer sludge? >> How can clothes be made from beer sludge?
X They should delete any beer smell. >> They should eliminate any beer smell.
X I can beat my money to the future. >>I can bet my money on/for the future.
Good Sentences:
O I have plans today, so I should leave the company quickly.
O It is good for vegan people.
O As I know this kind of clothes already exists.
O They use plastic waste.
O They should try to advertise these products to people.
O They should check it.
O People don't know which kind of materials can be there.
O The company should check and announce the materials.
O They should pay a lot of money.
O I'm not sure if it's a good way to make a certain profit.
O Some people really like it.
Pronunciation:
* alcohol /al-kuh-hawl/
* material /muh-teer-ee-uhl/
* sludge /sluhj/
* invest /in-vest/
* ride /rahyd/
* exhaustion /ig-zaws-chuhn/
* autopsy /aw-top-see/
* poison /poi-zuhn/
* ruin /roo-in/
* distrust /dis-truhst/
Build Lexicon:
* alternative := (n) a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility.
Example: You have the alternative of riding or walking.
* scalable := (adj.) capable of being scaled.
Example: The models are scalable in size, and the laundry list of options is immense.
* caveat := (n) a warning or caution:
Example: Before proceeding with the investment, he was given a caveat about potential risks and volatility in the stock market.
Discover Idioms & Expressions:
* beer money := extra money for small luxuries or fun.
Example: I don’t earn much, but I always set aside a little beer money for the weekends.
* liquid courage := alcohol giving someone confidence to do something bold.
Example: He finally asked her out after a little liquid courage from his beer.
* hold my beer := means when someone is about to do something bold or reckless.
Example: He saw his friend doing a crazy stunt and said, ‘Hold my beer,’ before trying something even wilder.
* beer goggles := the idea that alcohol makes people seem more attractive.
Example: He thought she was stunning at the party, but in the morning, he realized it was just the beer goggles.
Practice:
* Please take a look at lexicons and idioms. Kindly prepare one sentence for each.
