Studio Classroom- August 1- [Tips For Living] Cool Ideas for Hot Weather

【Grammar on the Go】

• 本日討論例句：
  Try a few of these fun ideas, and you'll cool off in no time.
• "In no time" is an idiom means "almost immediately" or "very quickly", so quickly is as no time pass by.
• Use this idiom when you want to talk about how fast something is going to happen.
• ex:
  1. If you take the subway, you'll get to the train station in no time.
  2. If we all work together, we can get the house chores done in no time.
  - chore(s) 家中的雜務

【Chat Room】

• cool
  ‧adj.涼爽的
  ‧v. 使東西變涼，冷卻；冷靜(如例句) -to become less warm or become calmer
  ex: Hey, cool it! 冷靜下來，別鬧了！(俚語)
  - It is an informal way to tell someone to calm down.
• cool off : can means calm down or become less angry, but in our lesson, "cool off" simply means to become less warm.
• prep. 介系詞"off"可用在許多片語(idioms)：
  ‧doze off: to fall asleep 睡著，打盹
  ‧put off: to delay 擔擱，延宕
  ‧rip (someone) off: to cheat someone 敲某人竹槓
  ‧get rip off: 被敲竹槓 ex: You should make sure that you don't get rip off.

【Language Tips】

1. beat n. 打，敲擊；(本文)打敗，勝過
   (beat, beat(p.), beaten(p.p.))
   ex:
   1. For Josh, playing on-line game always beats other kinds of entertainment.
   2. Our swimming team beat(p.) their opponents and won the championship.
2. evaporate v. 蒸發(例句1)；消失，不復存在(例句2)
   (vapor n. 水蒸氣)
   ex:
   1. Alcohol added to syrup makes it evaporate easily.
   2. Enthusiasm for learning can quickly evaporate if a teacher keeps criticizing his or her students.
3. absorb v. 吸收(例句1)；學習，吸收知識(例句2)
   1. The medicine can be absorbed by the body in just 20 minutes.
   2. Students absorb what is being taught better if they participate in a related activity.