November Whole EBS Programs 2025

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์น˜ Monday 17th November 2025 Native 309

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.17 — Lazy Perfectionist ๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅธ ์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜์ž

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.18 — Slow Mailboxes ๋А๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์šฐ์ฒดํ†ต

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.19 — Avocados ์•„๋ณด์นด๋„

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.20 — Studying History ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.21 — Summer Vacation English Camp ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋ฐฉํ•™ ์˜์–ด ์บ ํ”„

 

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.17 — Lazy Perfectionist ๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅธ ์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜์ž

"Lazy perfectionists" are people who chase perfection so much that they can't actually start anything.

๋ญ˜ ํ•˜๋“  ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์™„๋ฒฝ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ์—, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ '๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅธ ์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜์ž'๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* chase perfection : ์™„๋ฒฝ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค

* can't actually start : ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹ค

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I think a lot of us fit that description. We worry before we even begin, and then never actually follow through.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์‹œ์ž‘๋„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ฑฑ์ •๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •์ž‘ ์‹คํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* fit that description : ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์„ค๋ช…์— ํ•ด๋‹น๋˜๋‹ค

* before one even begins : ์‹œ์ž‘๋„ ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ „์—

* actually follow through : ์‹ค์ œ ์‹คํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๋‹ค

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When I first started studying English, I looked into a lot of different learning methods.

์ €๋Š” ์˜์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•™์Šต๋ฒ•์„ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* look into : ~์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๋‹ค

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But all I really did was try out trendy study hacks.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์œ ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•™์Šต๋ฒ•๋งŒ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ณ 

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* trendy study hacks : ์œ ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•™์Šต๋ฒ•

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I neglected the one thing that I really needed to do, which was to practice speaking.

์ •์ž‘ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์Šต์„ ์†Œํ™€ํžˆ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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In the end, it just left me feeling frustrated.

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์‹ค๋ง๊ฐ๋งŒ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* leave someone feeling : (~์„) ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด~ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค

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I eventually realized that the only way forward is to tackle English head-on.

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ง์ ‘ ๋ถ€๋”ช์ณ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์ด ๋‹ต์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* the only way forward : ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

* tackle something head-on : (~์„) ์ •๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋”ช์น˜๋‹ค

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Of course, I'm still not fully satisfied.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* not fully satisfied : ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š”

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But the moment I stopped fixating on perfection, it felt like anything is possible.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* stop fixating on : ~์— ์ง‘์ฐฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค

* anything is possible : ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋“  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค

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โ€‹ Dialogue Practice

A : I recently learned about something called "lazy perfectionists" in a book.

์–ผ๋งˆ ์ „์— ์ฑ…์—์„œ '๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅธ ์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜์ž'๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด.

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* something called : ~์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ

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B : I have never heard of it. What does it mean?

์ฒ˜์Œ ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด์ธ๋ฐ, ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋œป์ด์•ผ?

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A : It's when someone keeps planning to seek perfection, but never actually acts on it.

๊ณ„ํš์€ ์™„๋ฒฝ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ •์ž‘ ์‹คํ–‰์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งํ•ด,

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* seek perfection : ์™„๋ฒฝ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค

* act on it : ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค

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B : I think that sounds a little like me.

์™ ์ง€ ๋‚˜๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๋ฉด์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ?

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* sound a little like : ~์™€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๋‹ค

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A : Following through is hard for everyone.

๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ์‹ค์ฒœ์€ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด์•ผ.

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* follow through : ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ดํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ค

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B : Yeah... I guess even if my plan isn't perfect, I should just start somewhere.

๋งž์•„. ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์•„๋‹์ง€๋ผ๋„, ์ผ๋‹จ ๋ญ๋ผ๋„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด ๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค.

์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.18 — Slow Mailboxes ๋А๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์šฐ์ฒดํ†ต

When I visit major tourist spots, I sometimes come across something called a "slow mailbox."

์ฃผ์š” ๊ด€๊ด‘์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด '๋А๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์šฐ์ฒดํ†ต'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณค ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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* major tourist spot : ์ฃผ์š” ๊ด€๊ด‘์ง€

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Whenever I see one, I almost never skip the chance to handwrite a letter to my family.

๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿด ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋นผ๋จน์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์† ํŽธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์“ด๋‹ค.

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* never skip a chance to : ~ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค

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I always get caught up in the moment, so my handwriting or the content is usually a little messy.

๋งค๋ฒˆ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์•ž์„œ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ธ€์”จ์ฒด๋‚˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ข€ ์—‰์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค.

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* get caught up in the moment : ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์•ž์„œ๋‹ค, ๊ฐ์ •์— ํœฉ์‹ธ์ด๋‹ค

* a little messy : ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์–ด์ˆ˜์„ ํ•œ[์—‰์„ฑํ•œ]

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A postcard I had dropped into a slow mailbox finally arrived at our home recently.

์ตœ๊ทผ์— '๋А๋ฆฐ ์šฐ์ฒดํ†ต'์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณด๋‚ธ ์—ฝ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ง‘์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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Just imagining the look on my family's faces made me smile.

์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ž…๊ฐ€์— ๋ฏธ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒˆ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

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* the look on someone's face : (~์˜) ์–ผ๊ตด ํ‘œ์ •

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I also felt grateful to the postal workers who made sure it was delivered.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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* feel grateful to : ~์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค

* make sure : ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋‹ค

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In this digital age where everything is fast-paced and information is sent instantly, there's something so warm about a heartfelt letter.

๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‹œ๋Œ€์—, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ •๊ฐ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ํŽธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค.

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* digital age : ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‹œ๋Œ€

* fast-paced : ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋ฅธ

* heartfelt letter : ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ํŽธ์ง€

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It lets you revisit old memories and strengthens family bonds.

๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์„ ๋˜์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ •๋„ ๋ˆ๋…ํžˆ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ,

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* revisit old memories : ์˜› ์ถ”์–ต์„ ๋˜์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋‹ค

* strengthen family bonds : ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ •์„ ๋ˆ๋…ํžˆ ํ•˜๋‹ค

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I really hope these slow mailboxes will continue to exist.

์ด ๋А๋ฆฐ ์šฐ์ฒดํ†ต์ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ณ„์† ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด๋‹ค.

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โ€‹Dialogue Practice

โ€‹A : There was a postcard in the mailbox, so I brought it in.

์šฐํŽธํ•จ์— ์—ฝ์„œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์™”์–ด์š”.

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B : Oh, that. It's a postcard I sent through a slow mailbox.

์•„, ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ. ๋А๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์šฐ์ฒดํ†ต์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ธ ์—ฝ์„œ์ธ๋ฐ.

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A : So it's a letter for me, then.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‚ธ ํŽธ์ง€๋กœ๊ตฐ์š”.

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B : I didn't think it would arrive until the end of the year. It came sooner than I expected.

์—ฐ๋ง์—๋‚˜ ๋„์ฐฉํ•  ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์™”๋„ค์š”.

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* the end of the year : ์—ฐ๋ง

* sooner than one expected : ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ผ์ฐ

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A : The handwriting and content look a bit rough, though.

๊ทผ๋ฐ ๊ธ€์”จ์ฒด์™€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ข€ ์—‰์„ฑํ•˜๋„ค์š”.

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B : Yeah, I must have rushed it. Next time, I'll take more care and put more heart into it.

์„œ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์„œ ์“ฐ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋‚˜ ๋ด์š”. ๋‹ค์Œ์—๋Š” ๋” ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์จ์„œ ์ •์„ฑ๊ป ์จ ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”.

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* rush it : ์„œ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์„œ ํ•˜๋‹ค

* take more care : ๋” ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์„ ์“ฐ๋‹ค

* put more heart into : ~์— ๋” ์ •์„ฑ์„ ๋“ค์ด๋‹ค

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.19 — Avocados ์•„๋ณด์นด๋„

When it comes to picking avocados, the most important thing is how ripe they are.

์•„๋ณด์นด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋•Œ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ต์€ ์ •๋„์ด๋‹ค.

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* how ripe something is : (~)์ด ์ต์€ ์ •๋„

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So, the first thing to check is the color.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ์ƒ‰๊น”์„ ์ž˜ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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* the first thing to check : ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ํ™•์ธํ•  ๊ฒƒ

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It can vary depending on the variety, but a ripe avocado usually darkens from dark green to brown.

ํ’ˆ์ข…์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž˜ ์ต์€ ์•„๋ณด์นด๋„๋Š” ๋ณดํ†ต ์ง™์€ ๋…น์ƒ‰์—์„œ ๊ฐˆ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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* depending on the variety : ํ’ˆ์ข…์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ

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It's best to choose one that's somewhere between light green and dark green.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋ฐ์€ ๋…น์ƒ‰๊ณผ ์ง™์€ ๋…น์ƒ‰ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์•„๋ณด์นด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹๋‹ค.

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* somewhere between : ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€

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Next, give it a gentle squeeze.

๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ, ์•„๋ณด์นด๋„๋ฅผ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์‚ด์ง ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ,

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* give it a gentle squeeze : ์‚ด์ง ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๋‹ค

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If it feels soft, it's ripe.

๋ณด๋“ค๋ณด๋“คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ž˜ ์ต์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

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If it's too firm, it's underripe, and if it's too mushy, it's probably past its prime.

๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ ์ต์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฌผ๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ณผ์ˆ™๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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* too mushy : ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฌผ๋ ํ•œ

* past its prime : ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚œ

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Finally, a good avocado should have smooth, glossy skin.

๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์•„๋ณด์นด๋„๋Š” ๊ป์งˆ์ด ๋งค๋ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด‘ํƒ์ด ๋‚˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๋‹ค.

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If it's rough and has deep wrinkles, it probably hasn't ripened evenly.

๊ป์งˆ์ด ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฆ„์ด ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋Œ€๊ฐœ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ์ต์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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* have deep wrinkles : ์ฃผ๋ฆ„์ด ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋‹ค

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Avocados can ripen after they're picked.

์•„๋ณด์นด๋„๋Š” ํ›„์ˆ™์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ณผ์ผ์ด๋‹ค.

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* ripen after it is picked : ํ›„์ˆ™์ด ๋˜๋‹ค

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You can leave them in a paper bag at room temperature for a few days, or place them with other fruits to speed things up.

์ข…์ด ๋ด‰ํˆฌ์— ๋‹ด์•„ ์ƒ์˜จ์— ๋ฉฐ์น  ๋‘๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณผ์ผ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‘๋ฉด ๋” ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ต์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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* leave something in : (ใƒปใƒปใƒป์„) ~ ์•ˆ์— ๋‘๋‹ค

* at room temperature : ์ƒ์˜จ์—

* speed things up : ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๋‹ค

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Once they're ripe, just store them in the fridge to keep them fresh.

์ต์€ ํ›„์—๋Š” ๋ƒ‰์žฅ๊ณ ์— ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹ ์„ ํ•จ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค.

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* store something in the fridge : (~์„) ๋ƒ‰์žฅ๊ณ ์— ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๋‹ค

* keep something fresh : (~์„) ์‹ ์„ ๋„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค

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โ€‹Dialogue Practice

A : I feel like I always pick the wrong avocados at the store.

๋งˆํŠธ์— ๊ฐ€์„œ ์•„๋ณด์นด๋„๋ฅผ ์‚ด ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ž˜๋ชป ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

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* pick the wrong : ~์„ ์ž˜๋ชป ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋‹ค

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B : You have to pay attention to the color.

์ƒ‰๊น”์„ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์…”์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.

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* pay attention to : ~์— ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์„ ์“ฐ๋‹ค

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A : I've heard that.

๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

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B : It also helps to give them a gentle squeeze. Choose one that's neither too hard nor too soft.

์‚ด์ง ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋„๋ก ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

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* give something a gentle squeeze : (~์„) ์‚ด์ง ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณด๋‹ค

* neither too hard nor too soft : ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜์ง€๋„ ๋ฌผ๋ ํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š์€

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A : I guess it depends on how ripe they are?

์ต์€ ์ •๋„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ฃ ?

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* how ripe something is : (~์ด) ์ต์€ ์ •๋„

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B : That's right. And if it's still unripe, you can let it ripen in a paper bag.

๋งž์•„์š”. ๋œ ์ต์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ข…์ด ๋ด‰ํˆฌ์— ๋‹ด์•„ ๋†“์œผ๋ฉด ์ต๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ด์š”.

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.20 — Studying History ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€

I am a history buff.

๋‚˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์ฒ™ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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* history buff : ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์• ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€

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As a kid, I was a big fan of the historical dramas on TV.

์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ๋Š” TV์—์„œ ๋ฐฉ์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๊ทน์˜ ์—ดํ˜ˆ ํŒฌ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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* a big fan of : ~์˜ ์—ด๋ ฌํ•œ ํŒฌ

* historical drama : ์‚ฌ๊ทน

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I also read through a children's version of The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์šฉ <์กฐ์„ ์™•์กฐ์‹ค๋ก>๋„ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ฝ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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My love for Korean history naturally led me to take an interest in Western history, too.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋ ˆ ์„œ์–‘์‚ฌ์—๋„ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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* naturally lead someone to : (~์„) ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ~ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค

* take an interest in : ~์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๋‹ค

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Knowing history makes literature, art, and music feel so much richer.

์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฉด ๋ฌธํ•™ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ, ์Œ์•… ๋“ฑ์„ ๋” ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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* feel so much richer : ํ›จ์”ฌ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋‹ค

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When you understand the historical backdrop behind a work, it takes on a whole new meaning.

ํ•ด๋‹น ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ƒ‰๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜จ๋‹ค.

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* historical backdrop : ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ [์‹œ๋Œ€์ ] ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ

* take on a whole new meaning : ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค

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For me, history is a framework for understanding the world, and also a way of enjoying it.

์—ญ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์ผ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค.

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* a framework for : ~์˜ ํ‹€

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If history doesn't interest you, the history of everyday things is a good place to start.

์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํฅ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ผ์ƒ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‹ค.

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* everyday things : ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค

* a good place to start : ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์ข‹์€ ์ง€์ 

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For instance, learning about when and why the concept of "time" first appeared makes you rethink what you take for granted.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด '์‹œ๊ฐ„'์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…์ด ์–ธ์ œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™œ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

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* when and why : ์–ธ์ œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™œ

* take for granted : ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋‹ค

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It lets you see things in a whole new light.

์ผ์ƒ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ƒ‰๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

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* see things in a whole new light : ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ƒ‰๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋‹ค

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โ€‹Dialogue Practice

A : That's a pretty thick book.

์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋‘๊บผ์šด ์ฑ…์ด๋„ค์š”.

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B : Yeah, it's a history book about the Joseon dynasty.

๋„ค, ์กฐ์„  ์™•์กฐ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ฑ…์ด์—์š”.

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A : You must really be into history.

์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์—„์ฒญ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜๋ด์š”.

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* really be into : ~์„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค

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B : l am. Once I start reading, I completely lose track of time.

๋งž์•„์š”. ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ฝ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„์ฃผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์š”.

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* lose track of time : ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋‹ค

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A : People say learning history gives you a different perspective on current events. Is that true?

์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฉด ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ์ผ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋˜๋ฐ, ๋งž๋‚˜์š”?

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* a different perspective on : ~์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ

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B : To some extent, yes. History has a way of repeating itself.

์–ด๋А ์ •๋„๋Š” ๋งž์•„์š”. ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

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* to some extent : ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„

* history has a way of repeating itself : ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋œ๋‹ค

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์ž…ํŠธ์˜ 25.11.21 — Summer Vacation English Camp ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋ฐฉํ•™ ์˜์–ด ์บ ํ”„

I recently went to a two-day English Village summer camp hosted by the district office.

์ €๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ตฌ์ฒญ์—์„œ ์ฃผ๊ด€ํ•œ 1๋ฐ• 2์ผ ์˜์–ด ๋งˆ์„ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋ฐฉํ•™ ์˜์–ด ์บ ํ”„์— ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* hosted by : ~์ด ์ฃผ์ตœํ•˜๋Š”, ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜๋Š”

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I was so happy when I found out I had been chosen as one of only 80 kids. The competition to get in was 6-to-1.

6๋Œ€ 1์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ฅ ์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  80๋ช… ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์„ ์ •๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ปค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* be chosen as : ~์œผ๋กœ ์„ ์ •๋˜๋‹ค

* competition to get in : ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ(๋ฅ )

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I was both nervous and excited about speaking with foreigners in English for the very first time.

๋‚œ์ƒ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๊ณผ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์„ค๋ ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* both nervous and excited : ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์„ค๋ ˆ๋Š”

* for the very first time : ๋‚œ์ƒ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ

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All the classes were conducted entirely in English, so even ordinary activities felt special.

๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆ˜์—…์€ ์ „๋ถ€ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์–ด ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ํ™œ๋™๋“ค๋„ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* be conducted entirely in English : ์ „๋ถ€ ์˜์–ด๋กœ๋งŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค

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The airport simulation and the mock flight experience in a realistic airplane setting stood out the most.

ํŠนํžˆ ๊ณตํ•ญ ์ฒดํ—˜๊ณผ ์‹ค์ œ์™€ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ์„ธํŒ…์—์„œ์˜ ๋ชจ์˜ ํƒ‘์Šน ์ฒดํ—˜์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋‚จ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* stand out the most : ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋‚จ๋‹ค[์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด๋‹ค]

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I even got to play the role of a flight attendant and serve snacks to my friends, which was so much fun.

์Šน๋ฌด์› ์—ญํ• ๋„ ๋งก์•„ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ํ™œ๋™๋„ ๋ฌด์ฒ™ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* play the role of : ~ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค

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Thanks to the camp, I feel more confident about using English.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์บ ํ”„ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์˜์–ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์ด ๋†’์•„์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* feel more confident about : ~์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง€๋‹ค

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I even wrote a thank-you letter to the teacher who was especially kind to me, telling them, "You are the best teacher I've ever seen."

์ œ๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋˜ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๊ป˜ "You are the best teacher I've ever seen."์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ํŽธ์ง€๊นŒ์ง€ ์จ์„œ ๋“œ๋ ธ์–ด์š”.

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* write a thank-you letter : ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ํŽธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์“ฐ๋‹ค

* be especially kind to : ~์—๊ฒŒ ํŠนํžˆ ์นœ์ ˆํžˆ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค

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If I ever get the chance, I'd love to go again.

๋‹ค์Œ์—๋„ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธด๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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* get the chance : ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋‹ค

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โ€‹๐Ÿ“ Dialogue Practice

A : Did you have a good time at the English Village camp?

์˜์–ด ๋งˆ์„ ์บ ํ”„ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ˆ?

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B : Yes! It was such an unforgettable experience.

๋„ค! ์ •๋ง ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ์ถ”์–ต์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

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* an unforgettable experience : ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ์ถ”์–ต

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A : Wasn't it hard having to do everything in English?

์ „๋ถ€ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์„œ ์–ด๋ ต์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์–ด?

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B : I was a little nervous at first, but I got used to it as I went along.

์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๊ธด์žฅํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.

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* get used to it : ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค

* as one goes along : ํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ณผ์ • ์ค‘์—

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A : Good for you.

๊ธฐํŠนํ•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜.

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* good for you : ๊ธฐํŠนํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค

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B : It felt like a chance to practice the kind of English I would need to speak abroad.

์™ธ๊ตญ์— ๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ „์—์„œ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

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* a chance to practice : ์—ฐ์Šตํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ