Studio Classroom- August 10- [Animal Tales] As Busy as Beavers

【Chat Room】

• ┌n. advice /aIs/ 建議，指點，忠告 ex: I need your advice.
  └v. advise /aIz/ 建議，指點，忠告 ex: Can you advise me?
• Is there another words that describe this act of giving advice?
  ‧ ┌counsel 勸告，勸導
  → └counseler 提供建議的人，例如夏令營中的輔導員
  ‧ ┌adviser (financial adviser) 較為主動的顧問，提供意見
  → └consultant (business consultant) 較為被動，必需主動去請教去諮詢
  → ( v. consult)

【Grammar on the Go】

• 本日討論例句：...after all, Junior, we are beavers!
  - This phrase itself actually have several different meanings, but in the case of today's sentence, it's idiom that means "let's not forget that" .
• Use this idiom to remind somebody of a certain fact, if it's in the beginning of a sentence, make sure that a "," after the idiom.
ex: Let's go out and find something to do. After all, it's only 2pm.

• This idiom can also be act the end of the sentence, just be sure this is a "," before it.
  ex: There's no need to hurry, we are on vocation, after all.

【Language Tips】

1. lodge n. (本文)海獺，海貍的巢(例句1)：小木屋(例句2)
   ex:
   1. Father beaver was busy building their lodge while mother beaver took care of the babies.
   2. The couple has a ski lodge they visit every winter.
2. makeshift adj. 暫時的，臨時的
   ex:
   1. The Smiths used their garage as their makeshift office.
   2. The makeshift reguee camp is in terrible condition.
   -- reguee camp 難民營
   3. After the earthquake, the church was turned into a makeshift shelter.
3. gnaw v. 啃，咬(例句1)；侵蝕，腐蝕(例句2)
   (g不發音)
   ex:
   1. Nathan has a bad habit of gnawing his fingernails.
   2. The salty air gnawed at the plumbing of our beach house.