October 03

Lesson on 6/10/03 (Click here to Download Lesson Plan)
New Vocabulary	Notes	Mistakes	Notes	Problems/Issues	Notes
augment	Formal
disparate	Formal
gratuities	Quite formal
hay fever
onomatopoeia	Restricted to literary criticism
overland
pharmaceutical	Quite formal
prevalence	Quite formal
stamina
tentative	Quite formal
thrown in	Informal
to contend	Formal
to lump together	Informal

Lesson on 9/10/03 (Click here to Download Lesson Plan, although we didn't stick to it!)
New Vocabulary	Notes	Mistakes	Notes	Problems/Issues	Notes
elective	Formal	To make some shopping	Be careful of uses of "make" as (understandably) it's a recurrent mistake for you	I'll take another coffee	Correct structure but in the context of you getting another coffee, rather than asking for one, it probably
self-actualisation	Formal, particularly for psychology and/or philosophy	I've never explained you before why I want
validation	Formal	I had quite some good jobs

Lesson on 9/10/03 (Click here to Download Lesson Plan, although we didn't stick to it!)
New Vocabulary	Notes	Mistakes	Notes	Problems/Issues	Notes
elective	Formal	a business trip in France		a good point about the beach is	Correct structure but in the context native speakers might tend to use "a good thing" or "the good thing about it is" or "one good thing about it is", so perhaps your phrase
self-actualisation	Formal, particularly for psychology and/or philosophy	small score		brought it back to the mechanic	The difference between bring and take is a difficult, generally I think you can say, you bring something to "here" and take it to "there". However we also use "bring" for places with which we have a strong personal involvement (such as your home). So your phrase
validation	Formal	review about the book		he wants to add $3000 to the bill	Correct structure but if you want to sound a bit more "native speaker like" it probably

Lesson on 2/10/03 (Click here to Download Lesson Plan)
New Vocabulary	Notes	Mistakes	Notes	Problems/Issues	Notes
(earn or get) brownie points,		it would make (as in translate to)		(in a letter) goes on to write that	Correct structure but it probably
kudos	Idiom, probably speech	I've made that kind of exercise (as in "Grammar exercise")
(get a) foot in the door	Idiom, Informal, probably speech
bedsit	Idiom, probably speech
know the ropes	Idiom, Informal, probably speech
marsh
swamp	As above, perhaps more AmE
non-sequiteur	I can't find this in a dictionary but it is used on the web in the sense we talked about, sometimes without the hyphen
on a par (with)	Quite formal
pawns	Common figurative use
planks
reckon	Informal, probably speech, very common
rustle
take the rough with the smooth	Idiom, Informal, probably speech
to snowball
agree + to XXX
finish + ing