Saturday, May 27th, 2023
Objective: to learn idiomatic expressions in the context of relationships
Notes
Vocabulary
We are going to put our apartment for rent
The landlord
The landlady
The tenant /te-nant/
The lease agreement
A family member
Annual lease
Tune up service- a maintenance for a machine
with a motor
We accepted our reality.
How we would like to live
Baking- the activity of making a bread, cake, cookies, pies, etc in the oven.
Good manners- the habits and behaviors that you practice in public.
She saved some food and took it to their home.
They like to criticize others.
Architects
Doctors
Medical professionals
Foreigners /fo-re-ners/
To get along with (U.S.) / to get on with (U.K.)
Wasting
The water deposit
Indifferent
My next-door neighbor on the left.
I´m going upstairs
A chat- 1. A text message conversation or your phone or computer.
2. A casual verbal conversation
Jug- plastic containers for water
Mosh doesn´t stand this pet.++
A neighborhood- an area with houses
Prejudice /pre-jo-dis/ - an opinion of a person without knowing
Him or her well.
Relationship- a relation with a person
To get along with (U.S.) / to get on with (U.K.) To have a good relationship with a person
We get along with Lili.
The president of Mexico gets along well with
the president of The United States.
I got along well with my neighbor Alfredo but
he moved to Acapulco.
We don´t get along with our front-door
neighbor.
To get on my nerves To not tolerate another person
The building administrator gets on my nerves.
My neighbors get on my nerves.
The senator Lilly Tellez gets on my nerves.
The Mexican president gets on the nerves of
the Peruvian government.
To mind my own business To only pay attention to YOUR life and NOT PAY
We mind our own business because we have attention to the lives of other people
enough trouble with our own things.
My neighbors only mind their own business.
My neighbors don´t mind their own business
because they are too worried about other
people’s lives.
My mother-in-law doesn´t mind her own
business.
My wife doesn´t my her own business because
She is always paying attention to our neighbor´s
lives.
The witch of apartment 61 doesn´t mind her
own business because she is always criticizing el
Chavo, La chilindrina, and Kiko.
Vicente Fox doesn´t mind his own business
because he´s always criticizing President Lopez
Obrador.
To invite (someone) over To invite a person to your house
My mom said: Alfred invite your girlfriend over
to watch the super bowl.
Little Johnny invited Andy and Tom over to play
board games.
I invited Paulina over to have lunch.
We haven´t invited our friends over to dinner
for a long time.
To keep oneself to oneself To stay at home alone and not invite others
Diana´s mother keeps herself to herself. because you don´t like to socialize or you prefer
to not interact with others for a specific reason.
A nuisance A description for something that causes
annoyance or a conflict.
My neighbor upstairs is a very big nuisance.
For me the worst nuisance is a sunburn.
The president is a nuisance for the Mexican
people.
Traveling to Santa Fe is a nuisance.
To never disturb To never cause a problem
Noise at night never disturbs me.
Traffic never disturbs me unless I am in a hurry.
My dogs never disturb me.
Hot weather never disturbs me.
The sea never disturbs me.
My neighbors never disturb me.
Get to know The next step after meeting someone; when
I haven’t had the opportunity to get to know you obtain more information about that
Paulina. person.
I want to meet Nayib Bukele and I want to get (Also used for places)
to know him because he is very successful with
the actions that he implemented.
I want to get to know Thailand.
Nosy Refers to a person who is always worried about
John´s girlfriend is nosy because she constantly the businesses of other people.
checks his phone.
