Thursday, October 17, 2013

Assignment #4: Two clips from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

Apartments for Rent (Easy part)

1.Campus (noun):
Definition: the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc.
Example: Rallies were held on college/university campuses across the country.
2.Commute (noun):
Definition: the journey that you make when you travel to or from a place that you go to regularly (such as the place where you work.)
Example: There is always a lot of traffic on my morning commute.
3.Utilities (noun):
Definition: a company that provides electricity, water, etc.
Example: Notify the utility if there's an outage.
4.Complex (adjective):
Definition: having parts that connect or go together in complicated ways.
Example: A complex system.
5.Vacancies (noun):
Definition: a room in a hotel, motel, etc., that is available for use.
Example: There were no vacancies at the hotel.

A Student Credit Card (Medium part)

1.Stereo (noun):
Definition: a piece of electronic equipment that plays the radio, CDs, etc., and that uses two speakers for the sound.
Example: Let me show you my stereo.
2.Dough (noun):
Definition: informal (money.)
Example: I don't have much dough.
3.Spend yourself in a hole (idiom):
Definition: spend too much that leads to heavy debt
Example: Some people spend themselves in a hole because they can't control their shopping habits.
4.Impulse (noun):
Definition: a sudden strong desire to do something.
Example: He has to learn to control his impulses.
5.Sky-high (adjective):
Definition: extremely high (expensive.)
Example: The interest rates of student credit cards are usually sky-high.
6.Mess (noun):
Definition: a situation that is very complicated or difficult to deal with.
Example: I don't know how the economy got to be (in) such a mess.

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