Teaching fun and natural expressions for “cold.”

Everyday:

• I’m chilly

• I’m freezing

• It’s freezing outside

Dramatic & fun:

• I’m turning into ice

• I feel like a Popsicle

• I’m frozen solid

Idiom:

• As cold as ice = extremely cold

Key lessons:

• Make eyes at someone = look at someone with romantic/sexual interest

• Ghost (song context) = memory that stays with you

• Get close to someone = build emotional closeness

Key phrases:

• Get a cold / catch a cold = become sick

• Get changed = change clothes

• Get dark = become dark outside

• Get home = arrive home

• Get close to someone

  • physically come near

  • OR become emotionally close (relationship)

Key lessons:

• Put someone through something = to cause someone hardship

  • After the things you put me through…

• Make someone freeze

  • Not real freezing — means to shock or amaze someone

  • You gotta make me freeze = impress me / amaze me

Key lesson:

• Police = organization (plural noun)

  • HK police confirm safety… → “confirm” doesn’t take s because police is plural.

• Policeman / policewoman = individual officers

• Cop = casual word for a police officer

• Thrill / thrilling

  • Thrill (noun/verb): excitement

  • Thrilling: extremely exciting

  • Stranger Things’ final series is thrilling.

🎉 HSK အတွက် အရေးကြီးဆုံး တရုတ်ဝေါဟာရများကို လေ့လာစို့!

“make someone humble” = အပိုးကျိုးအောင် လုပ်သည်, ပညာပြသည်→ “I will make you humble.”

“fear” as a verb (B2 level) = ကြောက်သည်→ “All his employees fear him.” / “I fear you, Victor. I always have.”

“carry the world on your back/shoulders” = ပူပန်စရာ၊ တာဝန်တွေ အများကြီး ထမ်းထားရသည်

“fit in” = အံဝင်ခွင်ကျ ဖြစ်သည်, အဆင်ပြေသည် (လူမှုအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းထဲမှာ)→ “Don’t think I fit in at this party.”

take a photo/picture

take a shower / take a bath

take a seat (= ထိုင်ပါ, ထိုင်ခုံကို ယူသွားတာ မဟုတ်ပါ)

take notes (= မှတ်စုလုပ်သည်)

“stay by someone/something” = ဘေးမခွာ အမြဲနဲ့အတူရှိသည်→ “Make sure you stay by mom.” / “I’ve been staying by my phone all day.”

“hold someone down” = ဆွဲထားသည်, ရှေ့မတိုးနိုင်အောင် ထိန်းချုပ်ထားသည်→ “Past lives couldn’t ever hold me down” = အတိတ်တွေက ငါ့ကို ဆွဲမထားနိုင်ဘူး