General English:7
Unit4 Talking about your TV viewing habits
Vocabulary
documentary
a television documentary about/on the future of nuclear power
news
to listen to/watch the news
reality show
Reality shows are relatively cheap to produce.
weather
to listen to the weather
sitcom
This sitcom is really funny.
science fiction
It‘s a science fiction show,set in the year 2150.
drama
She loves watching historical drama.
game show
You can win ten thousand dollars on this game show.
sports
There‘s a sports show on TV at 8 o‘clock.
Expressions
I‘m totally addicted to ....
I‘m crazy about....
I generally like...
I don‘t really care for....
I absolutely hate...
I can‘t stand....
I never miss....
I almost always watch.....
Vocabulary
couch potato
programs
funny
stressful
stupid
silly
channels
cable TV
serious
Expressions
Now we‘re going to learn how to say how often something happens.
occasionally
seldom
generally
every morning
once in a while
never
almost always
Listening
Hearing adverbs
Adverbs can often be longer words,like occasionally or regularly,and when we‘re speaking,some of their syllables are made weaker
so they‘re easier to say,The -ly on the end is often not a very strong sound,but there are other parts that can be weaker,too.
Totally!I love it.
The -al in totally is a very quite sound compared to the other sounds in the word,and this part of a word is usually not strongly pronounced in English.
Listen for the sound of -ate in unfortunately in the next sentence.
unfortunately,I didn‘t see it.
The sound is very weak and makes the word quicker to say.Knowing that parts of words like -ate and -al will
usually be pronounced weakly can help usually
recognize them.You mighe also notice that un- is not strongly pronounced in this word either.