Descendants of the Sun

《太陽的後裔》（朝鮮語：태양의 후예／太陽의 後裔，英語：Descendants Of The Sun）為韓國KBS自2016年2月24日起播出的水木連續劇，由宋仲基、宋慧喬、金智媛及晉久主演，《Dream High》、《學校2013》、《秘密》的李應福導演與《巴黎戀人》、《秘密花園》、《紳士的品格》、《繼承者們》的金銀淑、《女王的教室》的金元碩作家攜手合作打造。本劇講述軍人與醫生兩人轉返於國外來回相愛的故事。

Episode 15:
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Title: 5 HUGE benefits of biz systems

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Because in a moment, I’ll reveal the 5 reasons why you need systems in your business…

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First, systems:

1. Provide consistency

No matter whether your business is product or service based, a process built on systems will always give you a predictable outcome.

This allows you to monitor and track your results with confidence and allows you to make adjustments where needed for bigger and better results.

2. Make change easier to accomplish

If something changes in your marketplace, (which happens often), you can identify which system is affected…

And make adjustments as needed to maintain consistent results.

3. Make training new employees easier

I always say, “First you create a system, and then your system trains your employees.”

If a key employee leaves and doesn’t have time to train their replacement, how will you get your new employee up to speed?

Without systems, this is near impossible and will likely eat up either yours or another employee’s precious time.

4. Allow staff to focus on what they do best

Any system that exists in your business is best run by a certain type of employee, personality type, and skillset.

This makes it easy for you to find an ideal replacement in the event someone leaves.

It also ensures you don’t have the wrong person operating any given system, and allows everyone to play to their strengths.

This in turn increases productivity and employee satisfaction, which decreases employee turnover.

5. Create value

Systems provide great efficiency, productivity, clarity, consistency, and control.

All of which increase the value of your business, wouldn’t you agree?

The bottom line is this, Jacky...

You can implement systems across many areas of your business, including sales, lead generation, payroll, admin, and operational activities.

But just as a business with great and supportive systems will continue to grow and increase in profitability…

A business with the wrong systems, or worse yet, no systems at all will suffer low efficiency, productivity, a lack of clarity, a lack of consistent results, and little control.

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Title: AI in 2023, hype or reality?

Although Artificial Intelligence is nothing new…
 
There’s an AI explosion happening right now, Jacky...
 
Just look at some of these headlines:
 
“ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch” - theguardian.com
 
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will reshape society…” - abcnews.go.com 
 
“An AI chatbot went viral. Some say it's better than Google” - nbcnews.com
 
The question is, is AI a threat to your business or an opportunity to seize in 2023?
 
The truth is, it can be both.
 
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And I’ll show you how you can do this in a moment.
 
Because we’re at the beginning of the AI revolution.
 
Things are moving RAPIDLY, and if you don’t act soon you’ll be left behind.
 
That’s why I’m writing to you today.
 
I’ve decided to include a full section on AI in our next XX Challenge™, on April 19th-21st.
 
You can use AI to:

Streamline your sales process

Amplify your marketing

Create recurring revenue, and so much more. 

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By the time the event is over, you’ll have everything you need to SCALE, SYSTEMIZE, and SUSTAIN your business through periods of economic uncertainty.
 
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2.
One day during my trip, I visited my friend's house which backs onto (= its back faces it) a river. She looked through the peephole and opened the door. She's tall, six foot one and big boned (= of a person or animal, of larger than average build without being fat). She has a good/great/lovely/beautiful/amazing figure. She does a lot of exercise and consumes healthy food to keep her figure. I've never seen her lose her figure/She does a lot of exercise and consumes foods that are good for her health and the figure so she's watching her figure. Most women have to watch their figure. She also loves dancing and has weekly dancing lessons. Dancing is fun and great for your figure. She's looking to book a holiday package so she's mulling over all the options/all the packages she's interested in. She needs a few days to mull things over before she makes up her mind. Unlike her brother who tends to dwell on the past/past memories instead of moving forward, She's a positive person who doesn't dwell on past mistakes and present miseries. She always says to her brother so you made a mistake. There's no need to dwell on it/I don't want to dwell on this subject for too long/I have no time to dwell on present miseries (= great unhappiness). Apparently, her brother has recently broken up with her girlfriend so he's been wandering around/moping about/dilly-dallying (= waste time through being slow, aimlessly wandering or indecision) all week/acting like a lovesick teenager. As he's down in the dumps, of course I didn't rub it in. Her dad is fuddy-duddy/a fuddy-duddy/a stick in the mud and a creature of habit. Every time the whole family dines out, he has to go to the same restaurant. They have two domestic helpers because their farmhouse is enormous and they lack any/have no inclination towards/for housework. She and her family manage/run/own/have a farm. She showed me around her farmhouse including her room. She said we'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall. They've adopted several dogs and cats. They understand when you've adopted a pet, you have/take responsibility for playing with that pet and taking care of its physical needs, ensuring that it's loved and well fed/make/give a commitment to.../you've committed to playing.../you cannot back out of your commitment to play... One of her dogs and one of her cats have recently borne/given birth a litter (= born at the same time and have the same mother) of puppies and kittens. Her grandad/grandpa had just got home from fishing and hooked his cane over the back of the chair. How many salmon/bass/fish did you hook? While doing fishing, he inadvertently kicked his shoe into the lake which was then floating on the surface of the water so he immediately hooked the shoe out of the water with his cane. Then he sat on the sofa/settee and watched a nature/wildlife documentary where it featured a pack of wolves/a parliament of owls/a pride of lions/a swarm of bees in the forest and their lives/a school of fish/whales/dolphins swimming in the ocean and their lives. A vacant plot of land and a vegetable land adjoins his house. A barn also adjoins an area of land/the field where the farm animals live. She has a stallion and a gravid mare who has borne several foals. She put her dog on a lead, tying the lead to her dog to her collar/tying the lead to his harness. While showing me around her farmhouse, she hooked a trailer/tractor to her car, drove her car to the other side/end of her farm, unhooked the trailer/tractor from her car and left them there. Simultaneously, she showed me a beautiful and serene lake nearby in which a flock of ducks and ducklings, a gaggle of geese and a few swans and cyngets were swimming. Standing by it, I took in the beauty and the serenity of the lake.

Near the lake, I also noticed a flock of birds/cuckoos, a covey/bevy of quail/quails, a murder of crows, a herd of deers and fawns and a mob/court/troop of kangaroos and joeys as well as bears/pandas/wolves/foxes and their (bear) cubs. Cuckoos are able to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. On her farm, she has a flock of chickens and chicks, a flock of sheeps and lambs, a rafter of turkeys and cattle. Some of her hens aren't laying well (= not producing many eggs). Later, I threw her the rope/threw the rope to her who then caught the rope and knotted it around/tied it to the post/tree. Then we walked/headed diagonally across the field towards/to reach her farmhouse in which she unhooked her bra/necklace and she put on another bra/necklace, reaching behind her back/neck to do up/fasten the hooks/hook. There was a clasp attached to the necklace/bracelet. She threw on a jumper but it was itchy/scratchy so she ripped it off (= remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly), crumpled it (into a ball) and chucked/slung/tossed it onto the floor. Then she put/threw/slipped on/slipped into a hoodie with a diagonal white stripe on the front and brought along her diary which has a diagonal black stripe on the cover. Then we went for a pleasant saunter in the countryside/a rural area/town in Tokyo/a suburb of Tokyo/the suburbs of Tokyo/suburban Tokyo where we started strolling leisurely/saunter pleasantly along a road that runs/is parallel to the river. For example, Queen's Road Central is parallel to Wellington Street. The two roads are parallel. Later, we reached the city centre where we walked/headed diagonally across the square towards/to reach her favourite cafe. As we were strolling there, a pedestrian asked us how they could get to the shopping mall. To reach the shopping mall, you cut through/across (= get to somewhere by a quicker and more direct way than the usual way) the park/car park/It's quickest if you cut diagonally through/across the park. The route/path goes diagonally through/across the city/park. She drew a diagonal line from one corner to the other and wrote down the tasks she needed to do/carry out/complete during/in the daytime and at nighttime, showing each part in a different colour. The top/upper part coloured yellow showed the tasks in the daytime while the bottom/lower part coloured red showed the tasks at nighttime. She teaches piano too. Some of her students still can't distinguish (the difference) between a tenuto and an accent/distinguish a tenuto from an accent/tell the difference between a tenuto and an accent/tell a tenuto from an accent/discriminate between a tenuto and an accent. Some of them were always in and out of the zone during their lessons. Some of them use convenient piano benches/Some of their piano benches are convenient because they can store the piano books inside the piano benches/stools. Sit with your knees straight. Don't sit with your knees apart/open. Don't sit with your ankles locked/crossed/with locked ankles/in the figure four (leg) lock position. She occasionally runs over time/the lesson occasionally runs over/overruns by five minutes. While drinking her hot chocolate in sips, she talked about her family holiday to Japan where they had/stayed in adjacent/adjoining rooms at a hotel that is adjacent to/handy for the train station which made their family holiday a breeze. On our family holiday to Japan, we asked for adjacent/adjoining rooms and our hotel is adjacent to/handy for the train station. Both our adjoining rooms and the location of the hotel made our family holiday a breeze. There was one time/once an instance while on holiday in Japan, when she was in an adjoining room and could hear voices from the other room which...

Later, we moved over to the table by which we sat on the sofa/settee. She took a stack (= neatly piled)/pile of leaflets and envelopes out of her bag and placed/sorted/arranged them in/into two (neat) (separate) piles/and stacked them (up)/piled them (up) (neatly). It turned out the leaflets were an ad/advert/advertisement for her piano teaching/to promote/advertise her piano teaching and she was going to send them to other people's houses. She had five hundred envelopes to stuff with leaflets/had five hundred leaflets to stuff into envelopes. Then she sat cross-legged on a cushion on the floor where she was stuffing leaflets into the envelopes, tearing the sheets of stamps along the perforations and sticking a stamp on each envelope. While doing so, I sank back into/leaned back against the cushions and took/had a sip/a few sips of the hot chocolate, us continuing to chat. She's recently had an interview for teaching piano at a music centre during which she was tested on piano music to measure her knowledge of piano music and her ability to play the piano. She said both the interview and the test were a breeze. When we headed back, she knocked on the door with a door knocker but no one answered the door so she put the key into the keyhole and turned the door handle to open the door after which she filed her nails and plucked her eyebrows. She originally invited her friend to her place that night but her friend had informed her about/of taking a rain check on (= cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time) that drink due to work so she was sorely disappointed/absolutely gutted at/by/about it, slumping her shoulders. She said mind if I take a rain check on that drink? I have to work late tonight.

2.
One day during my trip, I visited my friend's house which backs onto (= its back faces it) a river. She looked through the peephole and opened the door. She's tall, six foot one and big boned (= of a person or animal, of larger than average build without being fat). She has a good/great/lovely/beautiful/amazing figure. She does a lot of exercise and consumes healthy food to keep her figure. I've never seen her lose her figure/She does a lot of exercise and consumes foods that are good for her health and the figure so she's watching her figure. Most women have to watch their figure. She also loves dancing and has weekly dancing lessons. Dancing is fun and great for your figure. She doesn't (like to) talk shop at the weekends/over a coffee. She had several artificial Christmas trees. We can make a killing on these artificial Christmas trees if we are able to market them in time for the holidays. She's looking to book a holiday package so she's mulling over all the options/all the packages she's interested in. She needs a few days to mull things over before she makes up her mind. Unlike her brother who tends to dwell on the past/past memories instead of moving forward, She's a positive person who doesn't dwell on past mistakes and present miseries. She always says to her brother so you made a mistake. There's no need to dwell on it/I don't want to dwell on this subject for too long/I have no time to dwell on present miseries (= great unhappiness). Apparently, her brother has recently broken up with her girlfriend so he's been wandering around/moping about/dilly-dallying (= waste time through being slow, aimlessly wandering or indecision) all week/acting like a lovesick teenager. As he's down in the dumps, of course I didn't rub it in. He's got a job selling insurance but he isn't exactly making a killing. Her dad is fuddy-duddy/a fuddy-duddy/a stick in the mud and a creature of habit. Every time the whole family dines out, he has to go to the same restaurant. Her parents made a killing with/on the sales of their house in Tokyo. They have two domestic helpers because their farmhouse is enormous and they lack any/have no inclination towards/for housework. She and her family manage/run/own/have a farm. She showed me around her farmhouse including her room. She said we'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall. They've adopted several dogs and cats. They understand when you've adopted a pet, you have/take responsibility for playing with that pet and taking care of its physical needs, ensuring that it's loved and well fed/make/give a commitment to.../you've committed to playing.../you cannot back out of your commitment to play... One of her dogs and one of her cats have recently borne/given birth a litter (= born at the same time and have the same mother) of puppies and kittens. Her grandad/grandpa had just got home from fishing and hooked his cane over the back of the chair. How many salmon/bass/fish did you hook? While doing fishing, he inadvertently kicked his shoe into the lake which was then floating on the surface of the water so he immediately hooked the shoe out of the water with his cane. Then he sat on the sofa/settee and watched a nature/wildlife documentary where it featured a pack of wolves/a parliament of owls/a pride of lions/a swarm of bees in the forest and their lives/a school of fish/whales/dolphins swimming in the ocean and their lives. A vacant plot of land and a vegetable land adjoins his house. A barn also adjoins an area of land/the field where the farm animals live. She has a stallion and a gravid mare who has borne several foals. She put her dog on a lead, tying the lead to her dog to her collar/tying the lead to his harness. While showing me around her farmhouse, she hooked a trailer/tractor to her car, drove her car to the other side/end of her farm, unhooked the trailer/tractor from her car and left them there.

Simultaneously, she showed me a beautiful and serene lake nearby in which a flock of ducks and ducklings, a gaggle of geese and a few swans and cyngets were swimming. Standing by it, I took in the beauty and the serenity of the lake. Near the lake, I also noticed a flock of birds/cuckoos, a covey/bevy of quail/quails, a murder of crows, a herd of deers and fawns and a mob/court/troop of kangaroos and joeys as well as bears/pandas/wolves/foxes and their (bear) cubs. Cuckoos are able to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. On her farm, she has a flock of chickens and chicks, a flock of sheeps and lambs, a rafter of turkeys and cattle. Some of her hens aren't laying well (= not producing many eggs). Later, I threw her the rope/threw the rope to her who then caught the rope and knotted it around/tied it to the post/tree. Then we walked/headed diagonally across the field towards/to reach her farmhouse in which she unhooked her bra/necklace and she put on another bra/necklace, reaching behind her back/neck to do up/fasten the hooks/hook. There was a clasp attached to the necklace/bracelet. She threw on a jumper but it was itchy/scratchy so she ripped it off (= remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly), crumpled it (into a ball) and chucked/slung/tossed it onto the floor. Then she put/threw/slipped on/slipped into a hoodie with a diagonal white stripe on the front and brought along her diary which has a diagonal black stripe on the cover. Then we went for a pleasant saunter in the countryside/a rural area/town in Tokyo/a suburb of Tokyo/the suburbs of Tokyo/suburban Tokyo where we started strolling leisurely/saunter pleasantly along a road that runs/is parallel to the river. For example, Queen's Road Central is parallel to Wellington Street. The two roads are parallel. Later, we reached the city centre where we walked/headed diagonally across the square towards/to reach her favourite cafe. As we were strolling there, a pedestrian asked us how they could get to the shopping mall. To reach the shopping mall, you cut through/across (= get to somewhere by a quicker and more direct way than the usual way) the park/car park/It's quickest if you cut diagonally through/across the park. The route/path goes diagonally through/across the city/park. She drew a diagonal line from one corner to the other and wrote down the tasks she needed to do/carry out/complete during/in the daytime and at nighttime, showing each part in a different colour. The top/upper part coloured yellow showed the tasks in the daytime while the bottom/lower part coloured red showed the tasks at nighttime. She teaches piano too. Some of her students still can't distinguish (the difference) between a tenuto and an accent/distinguish a tenuto from an accent/tell the difference between a tenuto and an accent/tell a tenuto from an accent/discriminate between a tenuto and an accent. Some of them were always in and out of the zone during their lessons. Some of them use convenient piano benches/Some of their piano benches are convenient because they can store the piano books inside the piano benches/stools. Sit with your knees straight. Don't sit with your knees apart/open. Don't sit with your ankles locked/crossed/with locked ankles/in the figure four (leg) lock position. She occasionally runs over time/the lesson occasionally runs over/overruns by five minutes. While drinking her hot chocolate in sips, she talked about her family holiday to Japan where they had/stayed in adjacent/adjoining rooms at a hotel that is adjacent to/handy for the train station which made their family holiday a breeze. On our family holiday to Japan, we asked for adjacent/adjoining rooms and our hotel is adjacent to/handy for the train station. Both our adjoining rooms and the location of the hotel made our family holiday a breeze. There was one time/once an instance while on holiday in Japan, when she was in an adjoining room and could hear voices from the other room which...

Later, we moved over to the table by which we sat on the sofa/settee. She took a stack (= neatly piled)/pile of leaflets and envelopes out of her bag and placed/sorted/arranged them in/into two (neat) (separate) piles/and stacked them (up)/piled them (up) (neatly). It turned out the leaflets were an ad/advert/advertisement for her piano teaching/to promote/advertise her piano teaching and she was going to send them to other people's houses. She had five hundred envelopes to stuff with leaflets/had five hundred leaflets to stuff into envelopes. Then she sat cross-legged on a cushion on the floor where she was stuffing leaflets into the envelopes, tearing the sheets of stamps along the perforations and sticking a stamp on each envelope. While doing so, I sank back into/leaned back against the cushions and took/had a sip/a few sips of the hot chocolate, us continuing to chat. She's recently had an interview for teaching piano at a music centre during which she was tested on piano music to measure her knowledge of piano music and her ability to play the piano. She said both the interview and the test were a breeze. When we headed back, she knocked on the door with a door knocker but no one answered the door so she put the key into the keyhole and turned the door handle to open the door after which she filed her nails and plucked her eyebrows. She originally invited her friend to her place that night but her friend had informed her about/of taking a rain check on (= cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time) that drink due to work so she was sorely disappointed/absolutely gutted at/by/about it, slumping her shoulders. She said mind if I take a rain check on that drink? I have to work late tonight.

2.
One day during my trip, I visited my friend's house which backs onto (= its back faces it) a river. She looked through the peephole and opened the door. She's tall, six foot one and big boned (= of a person or animal, of larger than average build without being fat). She has a good/great/lovely/beautiful/amazing figure. She does a lot of exercise and consumes healthy food to keep her figure. I've never seen her lose her figure/She does a lot of exercise and consumes foods that are good for her health and the figure so she's watching her figure. Most women have to watch their figure. She also loves dancing and has weekly dancing lessons. Dancing is fun and great for your figure. She doesn't (like to) talk shop at the weekends/over a coffee. She had several artificial Christmas trees. We can make a killing on these artificial Christmas trees if we are able to market them in time for the holidays. She's looking to book a holiday package so she's mulling over all the options/all the packages she's interested in. She needs a few days to mull things over before she makes up her mind. Unlike her brother who tends to dwell on the past/past memories instead of moving forward, She's a positive person who doesn't dwell on past mistakes and present miseries. She always says to her brother so you made a mistake. There's no need to dwell on it/I don't want to dwell on this subject for too long/I have no time to dwell on present miseries (= great unhappiness). Apparently, her brother has recently broken up with her girlfriend so he's been wandering around/moping about/dilly-dallying (= waste time through being slow, aimlessly wandering or indecision) all week/acting like a lovesick teenager. As he's down in the dumps, of course I didn't rub it in. He's got a job selling insurance but he isn't exactly making a killing. Her dad is fuddy-duddy/a fuddy-duddy/a stick in the mud and a creature of habit. Every time the whole family dines out, he has to go to the same restaurant. Her parents made a killing with/on the sales of their house in Tokyo. They have two domestic helpers because their farmhouse is enormous and they lack any/have no inclination towards/for housework. She and her family manage/run/own/have a farm. She showed me around her farmhouse including her room. She said we'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall. They've adopted several dogs and cats. They understand when you've adopted a pet, you have/take responsibility for playing with that pet and taking care of its physical needs, ensuring that it's loved and well fed/make/give a commitment to.../you've committed to playing.../you cannot back out of your commitment to play... One of her dogs and one of her cats have recently borne/given birth a litter (= born at the same time and have the same mother) of puppies and kittens. The dog seemed parched so I gave it some water. Her grandad/grandpa had just got home from going fishing and hooked his cane over the back of the chair. He's such a cheapskate that he cuts his hair himself. He's very kind and generous who kept saying make yourself home and kept offering me food and drinks. You make me feel like a freeloader. A freeloader is a person who takes advantage of others' generosity, such as food, money and a room in a house without giving anything in return/exchange. How's your day been? Sit, take a load off. Spill the beans/the tea. Come in/Come on in and take a load off (your feet). She was supposed to make a speech but someone else agreed to do it for her. Before that, she said to herself hopefully, touch wood someone else will do it for me. I'm so relieved that I don't have to make/give/deliver a speech. It's/That's (such) a load/weight off my mind.

Her grandma was most of her life a non-smoking teetotaler and lived modestly. How many salmon/bass/fish did you hook? While doing fishing, he inadvertently kicked his shoe into the lake which was then floating on the surface of the water so he immediately hooked the shoe out of the water with his cane. Then he sat on the sofa/settee and watched a nature/wildlife documentary where it featured a pack of wolves/a parliament of owls/a pride of lions/a swarm of bees in the forest and their lives/a school of fish/whales/dolphins swimming in the ocean and their lives. A vacant plot of land and a vegetable land adjoins his house. A barn also adjoins an area of land/the field where the farm animals live. She has a stallion and a gravid mare who has borne several foals. She put her dog on a lead, tying the lead to her dog to her collar/tying the lead to his harness. While showing me around her farmhouse, she hooked a trailer/tractor to her car, drove her car to the other side/end of her farm, unhooked the trailer/tractor from her car and left them there. Simultaneously, she showed me a beautiful and serene lake nearby in which a flock of ducks and ducklings, a gaggle of geese and a few swans and cyngets were swimming. Standing by it, I took in the beauty and the serenity of the lake. Near the lake, I also noticed a flock of birds/cuckoos, a covey/bevy of quail/quails, a murder of crows, a herd of deers and fawns and a mob/court/troop of kangaroos and joeys as well as bears/pandas/wolves/foxes and their (bear) cubs. Cuckoos are able to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. On her farm, she has a flock of chickens and chicks, a flock of sheeps and lambs, a rafter of turkeys and cattle. Some of her hens aren't laying well (= not producing many eggs). Later, I threw her the rope/threw the rope to her who then caught the rope and knotted it around/tied it to the post/tree. Then we walked/headed diagonally across the field towards/to reach her farmhouse in which she unhooked her bra/necklace and she put on another bra/necklace, reaching behind her back/neck to do up/fasten the hooks/hook. There was a clasp attached to the necklace/bracelet. She threw on a jumper but it was itchy/scratchy so she ripped it off (= remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly), crumpled it (into a ball) and chucked/slung/tossed it onto the floor. Then she put/threw/slipped on/slipped into a hoodie with a diagonal white stripe on the front and brought along her diary which has a diagonal black stripe on the cover. Then we went for a pleasant saunter in the countryside/a rural area/town in Tokyo/a suburb of Tokyo/the suburbs of Tokyo/suburban Tokyo where we started strolling leisurely/saunter pleasantly along a road that runs/is parallel to the river. For example, Queen's Road Central is parallel to Wellington Street. The two roads are parallel. Later, we reached the city centre where we walked/headed diagonally across the square towards/to reach her favourite cafe. As we were strolling there, a pedestrian asked us how they could get to the shopping mall. To reach the shopping mall, you cut through/across (= get to somewhere by a quicker and more direct way than the usual way) the park/car park/It's quickest if you cut diagonally through/across the park. The route/path goes diagonally through/across the city/park. She drew a diagonal line from one corner to the other and wrote down the tasks she needed to do/carry out/complete during/in the daytime and at nighttime, showing each part in a different colour. The top/upper part coloured yellow showed the tasks in the daytime while the bottom/lower part coloured red showed the tasks at nighttime.

She teaches piano too. Some of her students still can't distinguish (the difference) between a tenuto and an accent/distinguish a tenuto from an accent/tell the difference between a tenuto and an accent/tell a tenuto from an accent/discriminate between a tenuto and an accent. Some of them were always in and out of the zone during their lessons. Some of them use convenient piano benches/Some of their piano benches are convenient because they can store the piano books inside the piano benches/stools. Sit with your knees straight. Don't sit with your knees apart/open. Don't sit with your ankles locked/crossed/with locked ankles/in the figure four (leg) lock position. She occasionally runs over time/the lesson occasionally runs over/overruns by five minutes. While drinking her hot chocolate in sips, she talked about her family holiday to Japan where they had/stayed in adjacent/adjoining rooms at a hotel that is adjacent to/handy for the train station which made their family holiday a breeze. On our family holiday to Japan, we asked for adjacent/adjoining rooms and our hotel is adjacent to/handy for the train station. Both our adjoining rooms and the location of the hotel made our family holiday a breeze. There was one time/once an instance while on holiday in Japan, when she was in an adjoining room and could hear voices from the other room which... Later, we moved over to the table by which we sat on the sofa/settee. She took a stack (= neatly piled)/pile of leaflets and envelopes out of her bag and placed/sorted/arranged them in/into two (neat) (separate) piles/and stacked them (up)/piled them (up) (neatly). It turned out the leaflets were an ad/advert/advertisement for her piano teaching/to promote/advertise her piano teaching and she was going to send them to other people's houses. She had five hundred envelopes to stuff with leaflets/had five hundred leaflets to stuff into envelopes. Then she sat cross-legged on a cushion on the floor where she was stuffing leaflets into the envelopes, tearing the sheets of stamps along the perforations and sticking a stamp on each envelope. While doing so, I sank back into/leaned back against the cushions and took/had a sip/a few sips of the hot chocolate, us continuing to chat. She's recently had an interview for teaching piano at a music centre during which she was tested on piano music to measure her knowledge of piano music and her ability to play the piano. She said both the interview and the test were a breeze. When we headed back, she knocked on the door with a door knocker but no one answered the door so she put the key into the keyhole and turned the door handle to open the door after which she filed her nails and plucked her eyebrows. She originally invited her friend to her place that night but her friend had informed her about/of taking a rain check on (= cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time) that drink due to work so she was sorely disappointed/absolutely gutted at/by/about it, slumping her shoulders. She said mind if I take a rain check on that drink? I have to work late tonight.

2.
One day during my trip, I visited my friend's house which backs onto (= its back faces it) a river. She looked through the peephole and opened the door. She's tall, six foot one and big boned (= of a person or animal, of larger than average build without being fat). She has a good/great/lovely/beautiful/amazing figure. She does a lot of exercise and consumes healthy food to keep her figure. I've never seen her lose her figure/She does a lot of exercise and consumes foods that are good for her health and the figure so she's watching her figure. Most women have to watch their figure. She also loves dancing and has weekly dancing lessons. Dancing is fun and great for your figure. She doesn't (like to) talk shop at the weekends/over a coffee. She had several artificial Christmas trees. We can make a killing on these artificial Christmas trees if we are able to market them in time for the holidays. She's looking to book a holiday package so she's mulling over all the options/all the packages she's interested in. She needs a few days to mull things over before she makes up her mind. Unlike her younger brother who tends to dwell on the past/past memories instead of moving forward, She's a positive person who doesn't dwell on past mistakes and present miseries. She always says to her younger brother so you made a mistake. There's no need to dwell on it/I don't want to dwell on this subject for too long/I have no time to dwell on present miseries (= great unhappiness). Apparently, her brother has recently broken up with her girlfriend so he's been wandering around/moping about/dilly-dallying (= waste time through being slow, aimlessly wandering or indecision) all week/acting like a lovesick teenager. As he's down in the dumps, of course I didn't rub it in. He's got a job selling insurance but he isn't exactly making a killing. Her dad is fuddy-duddy/a fuddy-duddy/a stick in the mud and a creature of habit. Every time the whole family dines out, he has to go to the same restaurant. Her parents made a killing with/on the sales of their house in Tokyo. Her elder brother got hitched last year. When his wife bore him a son, he couldn't hide his delight/joy. She had borne four kids by the time she was thirty. When the company announced it was going to lay off/pay off a hundred workers, it alarmed him/he was alarmed/He felt a growing sense of alarm when the company announced it was going to lay off/pay off a hundred workers, realizing she might face the terrifying prospect of unemployment. Many workers would face the gloomy/grim/bleak prospect of losing their jobs. Fortunately, he wasn't sacked. The prospect of sharing an office with a colleague of his who's a bully fills him with horror. His wife is alarmed/appalled at/by/concerned about/for her husband about/for/at/by/over/upset about/over/at/by/dreads (= very worried)/doesn't relish the prospect of sharing an office with him. He had a crush on a female colleague of his. Traveling around the world alone is a daunting prospect so he relishes the exciting/attractive prospect of traveling the world with her. He secretly relishes the prospect/thought/idea of being alone with her/chance of/for a date with her/of going.../opportunity for a date with her/of/for going... A date with her is an exciting/attractive prospect. Knowing she would be at a party, he said to himself Hopefully, touch wood she's going to be in there most of the time. At the party, he plucked up courage to approach her, asking her out to dinner next week so he's excited/thrilled/delighted at the prospect of seeing her again. They have two domestic helpers because their farmhouse is enormous and they lack any/have no inclination towards/for housework. She and her family manage/run/own/have a farm. She showed me around her farmhouse including her room.

She said we'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall. They've adopted several dogs and cats. They understand when you've adopted a pet, you have/take responsibility for playing with that pet and taking care of its physical needs, ensuring that it's loved and well fed/make/give a commitment to.../you've committed to playing.../you cannot back out of your commitment to play... One of her dogs and one of her cats have recently borne/given birth a litter (= born at the same time and have the same mother) of puppies and kittens. The dog seemed parched so I gave it some water. Her grandad/grandpa had just got home from going fishing and hooked his cane over the back of the chair. He's such a cheapskate that he cuts his hair himself. He's very kind and generous who kept saying make yourself home and kept offering me food and drinks. You make me feel like a freeloader. A freeloader is a person who takes advantage of others' generosity, such as food, money and a room in a house without giving anything in return/exchange. How's your day been? Sit, take a load off. Spill the beans/the tea. Come in/Come on in and take a load off (your feet). She was supposed to make a speech but someone else agreed to do it for her. Before that, she said to herself hopefully, touch wood someone else will do it for me. I'm so relieved that I don't have to make/give/deliver a speech. It's/That's (such) a load/weight off my mind. Her grandma was most of her life a non-smoking teetotaler and lived modestly. How many salmon/bass/fish did you hook? While doing fishing, he inadvertently kicked his shoe into the lake which was then floating on the surface of the water so he immediately hooked the shoe out of the water with his cane. Then he sat on the sofa/settee and watched a nature/wildlife documentary where it featured a pack of wolves/a parliament of owls/a pride of lions/a swarm of bees in the forest and their lives/a school of fish/whales/dolphins swimming in the ocean and their lives. A vacant plot of land and a vegetable land adjoins his house. A barn also adjoins an area of land/the field where the farm animals live. She has a stallion and a gravid mare who has borne several foals. Most animals bear their young in spring. She put her dog on a lead, tying the lead to her dog to her collar/tying the lead to his harness. While showing me around her farmhouse, she hooked a trailer/tractor to her car, drove her car to the other side/end of her farm, unhooked the trailer/tractor from her car and left them there. Simultaneously, she showed me a beautiful and serene lake nearby in which a flock of ducks and ducklings, a gaggle of geese and a few swans and cyngets were swimming. Standing by it, I took in the beauty and the serenity of the lake. Near the lake, I also noticed a flock of birds/cuckoos, a covey/bevy of quail/quails, a murder of crows, a herd of deers and fawns and a mob/court/troop of kangaroos and joeys as well as bears/pandas/wolves/foxes and their (bear) cubs. Cuckoos are able to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. On her farm, she has a flock of chickens and chicks, a flock of sheeps and lambs, a rafter of turkeys and cattle. Some of her hens aren't laying well (= not producing many eggs). Later, I threw her the rope/threw the rope to her who then caught the rope and knotted it around/tied it to the post/tree. The tree she planted had never/finally borne fruit/took a long time to bear fruit.

Then we walked/headed diagonally across the field towards/to reach her farmhouse in which she unhooked her bra/necklace and she put on another bra/necklace, reaching behind her back/neck to do up/fasten the hooks/hook. There was a clasp attached to the necklace/bracelet. She threw on a jumper but it was itchy/scratchy so she ripped it off (= remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly), crumpled it (into a ball) and chucked/slung/tossed it onto the floor. Then she put/threw/slipped on/slipped into a hoodie with a diagonal white stripe on the front and brought along her diary which has a diagonal black stripe on the cover. Then we went for a pleasant saunter in the countryside/a rural area/town in Tokyo/a suburb of Tokyo/the suburbs of Tokyo/suburban Tokyo where we started strolling leisurely/saunter pleasantly along a road that runs/is parallel to the river. For example, Queen's Road Central is parallel to Wellington Street. The two roads are parallel. Later, we reached the city centre where we walked/headed diagonally across the square towards/to reach her favourite cafe. As we were strolling there, a pedestrian asked us how they could get to the shopping mall. To reach the shopping mall, you cut through/across (= get to somewhere by a quicker and more direct way than the usual way) the park/car park/It's quickest if you cut diagonally through/across the park. The route/path goes diagonally through/across the city/park. She drew a diagonal line from one corner to the other and wrote down the tasks she needed to do/carry out/complete during/in the daytime and at nighttime, showing each part in a different colour. The top/upper part coloured yellow showed the tasks in the daytime while the bottom/lower part coloured red showed the tasks at nighttime. She teaches piano too. Some of her students still can't distinguish (the difference) between a tenuto and an accent/distinguish a tenuto from an accent/tell the difference between a tenuto and an accent/tell a tenuto from an accent/discriminate between a tenuto and an accent. Some of them were always in and out of the zone during their lessons. Some of them use convenient piano benches/Some of their piano benches are convenient because they can store the piano books inside the piano benches/stools. Sit with your knees straight. Don't sit with your knees apart/open. Don't sit with your ankles locked/crossed/with locked ankles/in the figure four (leg) lock position. She occasionally runs over time/the lesson occasionally runs over/overruns by five minutes. While drinking her hot chocolate in sips, she talked about her family holiday to Japan where they had/stayed in adjacent/adjoining rooms at a hotel that is adjacent to/handy for the train station which made their family holiday a breeze. On our family holiday to Japan, we asked for adjacent/adjoining rooms and our hotel is adjacent to/handy for the train station. Both our adjoining rooms and the location of the hotel made our family holiday a breeze. There was one time/once an instance while on holiday in Japan, when she was in an adjoining room and could hear voices from the other room which... Later, we moved over to the table by which we sat on the sofa/settee. She took a stack (= neatly piled)/pile of leaflets and envelopes out of her bag and placed/sorted/arranged them in/into two (neat) (separate) piles/and stacked them (up)/piled them (up) (neatly). It turned out the leaflets were an ad/advert/advertisement for her piano teaching/to promote/advertise her piano teaching and she was going to send them to other people's houses. She had five hundred envelopes to stuff with leaflets/had five hundred leaflets to stuff into envelopes. Then she sat cross-legged on a cushion on the floor where she was stuffing leaflets into the envelopes, tearing the sheets of stamps along the perforations and sticking a stamp on each envelope.

While doing so, I sank back into/leaned back against the cushions and took/had a sip/a few sips of the hot chocolate, us continuing to chat. She's recently had an interview for teaching piano at a music centre during which she was tested on piano music to measure her knowledge of piano music and her ability to play the piano. She said both the interview and the test were a breeze. When we headed back, she knocked on the door with a door knocker but no one answered the door so she put the key into the keyhole and turned the door handle to open the door after which she filed her nails and plucked her eyebrows. She originally invited her friend to her place that night but her friend had informed her about/of taking a rain check on (= cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time) that drink due to work so she was sorely disappointed/absolutely gutted at/by/about it, slumping her shoulders. She said mind if I take a rain check on that drink? I have to work late tonight.

relishes the exciting/attractive prospect of traveling the world with her. He secretly relishes the prospect/thought/idea of being alone with her/chance of/for a date with her/of going.../opportunity for a date with her/of/for going... A date with her is an exciting/attractive prospect. Knowing she would be at a party, he said to himself Hopefully, touch wood she's going to be in there most of the time. At the party, he plucked up courage to approach her, asking her out to dinner next week so he's excited/thrilled/delighted at the prospect of seeing her again. They have two domestic helpers because their farmhouse is enormous and they lack any/have no inclination towards/for housework. She and her family manage/run/own/have a farm. She showed me around her farmhouse including her room.

She said we'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall. They've adopted several dogs and cats. They understand when you've adopted a pet, you have/take responsibility for playing with that pet and taking care of its physical needs, ensuring that it's loved and well fed/make/give a commitment to.../you've committed to playing.../you cannot back out of your commitment to play... One of her dogs and one of her cats have recently borne/given birth a litter (= born at the same time and have the same mother) of puppies and kittens. The dog seemed parched so I gave it some water. Her grandad/grandpa had just got home from going fishing and hooked his cane over the back of the chair. He's such a cheapskate that he cuts his hair himself. He's very kind and generous who kept saying make yourself home and kept offering me food and drinks. You make me feel like a freeloader. A freeloader is a person who takes advantage of others' generosity, such as food, money and a room in a house without giving anything in return/exchange. How's your day been? Sit, take a load off. Spill the beans/the tea. Come in/Come on in and take a load off (your feet). She was supposed to make a speech but someone else agreed to do it for her. Before that, she said to herself hopefully, touch wood someone else will do it for me. I'm so relieved that I don't have to make/give/deliver a speech. It's/That's (such) a load/weight off my mind. Her grandma was most of her life a non-smoking teetotaler and lived modestly. How many salmon/bass/fish did you hook? While doing fishing, he inadvertently kicked his shoe into the lake which was then floating on the surface of the water so he immediately hooked the shoe out of the water with his cane. Then he sat on the sofa/settee and watched a nature/wildlife documentary where it featured a pack of wolves/a parliament of owls/a pride of lions/a swarm of bees in the forest and their lives/a school of fish/whales/dolphins swimming in the ocean and their lives. A vacant plot of land and a vegetable land adjoins his house. A barn also adjoins an area of land/the field where the farm animals live. She has a stallion and a gravid mare who has borne several foals. Most animals bear their young in spring. She put her dog on a lead, tying the lead to her dog to her collar/tying the lead to his harness. While showing me around her farmhouse, she hooked a trailer/tractor to her car, drove her car to the other side/end of her farm, unhooked the trailer/tractor from her car and left them there. Simultaneously, she showed me a beautiful and serene lake nearby in which a flock of ducks and ducklings, a gaggle of geese and a few swans and cyngets were swimming. Standing by it, I took in the beauty and the serenity of the lake. Near the lake, I also noticed a flock of birds/cuckoos, a covey/bevy of quail/quails, a murder of crows, a herd of deers and fawns and a mob/court/troop of kangaroos and joeys as well as bears/pandas/wolves/foxes and their (bear) cubs. Cuckoos are able to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. On her farm, she has a flock of chickens and chicks, a flock of sheeps and lambs, a rafter of turkeys and cattle. Some of her hens aren't laying well (= not producing many eggs). Later, I threw her the rope/threw the rope to her who then caught the rope and knotted it around/tied it to the post/tree. The tree she planted had never/finally borne fruit/took a long time to bear fruit.

Then we walked/headed diagonally across the field towards/to reach her farmhouse in which she unhooked her bra/necklace and she put on another bra/necklace, reaching behind her back/neck to do up/fasten the hooks/hook. There was a clasp attached to the necklace/bracelet. She threw on a jumper but it was itchy/scratchy so she ripped it off (= remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly), crumpled it (into a ball) and chucked/slung/tossed it onto the floor. Then she put/threw/slipped on/slipped into a hoodie with a diagonal white stripe on the front and brought along her diary which has a diagonal black stripe on the cover. Then we went for a pleasant saunter in the countryside/a rural area/town in Tokyo/a suburb of Tokyo/the suburbs of Tokyo/suburban Tokyo where we started strolling leisurely/saunter pleasantly along a road that runs/is parallel to the river. For example, Queen's Road Central is parallel to Wellington Street. The two roads are parallel. Later, we reached the city centre where we walked/headed diagonally across the square towards/to reach her favourite cafe. As we were strolling there, a pedestrian asked us how they could get to the shopping mall. To reach the shopping mall, you cut through/across (= get to somewhere by a quicker and more direct way than the usual way) the park/car park/It's quickest if you cut diagonally through/across the park. The route/path goes diagonally through/across the city/park. She drew a diagonal line from one corner to the other and wrote down the tasks she needed to do/carry out/complete during/in the daytime and at nighttime, showing each part in a different colour. The top/upper part coloured yellow showed the tasks in the daytime while the bottom/lower part coloured red showed the tasks at nighttime. She teaches piano too. Some of her students still can't distinguish (the difference) between a tenuto and an accent/distinguish a tenuto from an accent/tell the difference between a tenuto and an accent/tell a tenuto from an accent/discriminate between a tenuto and an accent. Some of them were always in and out of the zone during their lessons. Some of them use convenient piano benches/Some of their piano benches are convenient because they can store the piano books inside the piano benches/stools. Sit with your knees straight. Don't sit with your knees apart/open. Don't sit with your ankles locked/crossed/with locked ankles/in the figure four (leg) lock position. She occasionally runs over time/the lesson occasionally runs over/overruns by five minutes. While drinking her hot chocolate in sips, she talked about her family holiday to Japan where they had/stayed in adjacent/adjoining rooms at a hotel that is adjacent to/handy for the train station which made their family holiday a breeze. On our family holiday to Japan, we asked for adjacent/adjoining rooms and our hotel is adjacent to/handy for the train station. Both our adjoining rooms and the location of the hotel made our family holiday a breeze. There was one time/once an instance while on holiday in Japan, when she was in an adjoining room and could hear voices from the other room which... Later, we moved over to the table by which we sat on the sofa/settee. She took a stack (= neatly piled)/pile of leaflets and envelopes out of her bag and placed/sorted/arranged them in/into two (neat) (separate) piles/and stacked them (up)/piled them (up) (neatly). It turned out the leaflets were an ad/advert/advertisement for her piano teaching/to promote/advertise her piano teaching and she was going to send them to other people's houses. She had five hundred envelopes to stuff with leaflets/had five hundred leaflets to stuff into envelopes. Then she sat cross-legged on a cushion on the floor where she was stuffing leaflets into the envelopes, tearing the sheets of stamps along the perforations and sticking a stamp on each envelope.

2.
One day during my trip, I visited my friend's house which backs onto (= its back faces it) a river. She looked through the peephole and opened the door. She's tall, six foot one and big boned (= of a person or animal, of larger than average build without being fat). She has a good/great/lovely/beautiful/amazing figure. She does a lot of exercise and consumes healthy food to keep her figure. I've never seen her lose her figure/She does a lot of exercise and consumes foods that are good for her health and the figure so she's watching her figure. Most women have to watch their figure. She also loves dancing and has weekly dancing lessons. Dancing is fun and great for your figure. She doesn't (like to) talk shop at the weekends/over a coffee. She had several artificial Christmas trees. We can make a killing on these artificial Christmas trees if we are able to market them in time for the holidays. She's looking to book a holiday package so she's mulling over all the options/all the packages she's interested in. She needs a few days to mull things over before she makes up her mind. Unlike her younger brother who tends to dwell on the past/past memories instead of moving forward, She's a positive person who doesn't dwell on past mistakes and present miseries. She always says to her younger brother so you made a mistake. There's no need to dwell on it/I don't want to dwell on this subject for too long/I have no time to dwell on present miseries (= great unhappiness). Apparently, her brother has recently broken up with her girlfriend so he's been wandering around/moping about/dilly-dallying (= waste time through being slow, aimlessly wandering or indecision) all week/acting like a lovesick teenager. As he's down in the dumps, of course I didn't rub it in. He's got a job selling insurance but he isn't exactly making a killing. Her dad is fuddy-duddy/a fuddy-duddy/a stick in the mud and a creature of habit. Every time the whole family dines out, he has to go to the same restaurant. Her parents made a killing with/on the sales of their house in Tokyo. Her elder brother got hitched last year. When his wife bore him a son, he couldn't hide his delight/joy. She had borne four kids by the time she was thirty. When the company announced it was going to lay off/pay off a hundred workers, it alarmed him/he was alarmed/He felt a growing sense of alarm when the company announced it was going to lay off/pay off a hundred workers, realizing she might face the terrifying prospect of unemployment. Many workers would face the gloomy/grim/bleak prospect of losing their jobs. Fortunately, he wasn't sacked. The prospect of sharing an office with a colleague of his who's a bully fills him with horror. His wife is alarmed/appalled at/by/concerned about/for her husband about/for/at/by/over/upset about/over/at/by/dreads (= very worried)/doesn't relish the prospect of sharing an office with him. He had a crush on a female colleague of his. Traveling around the world alone is a daunting prospect so he relishes the exciting/attractive prospect of traveling the world with her. He secretly relishes the prospect/thought/idea of being alone with her/chance of/for a date with her/of going.../opportunity for a date with her/of/for going... A date with her is an exciting/attractive prospect. There was one time/once an instance when he went to a bar, being under the impression that she would be there so he said my plan didn't work out so it's back to the drawing board. However, this time he knew for sure that she would be at a party. Knowing she would be there, he said to himself hopefully, touch wood she's going to be in there most of the time. At the party, he plucked up courage to approach her, asking her out to dinner next week so he's excited/thrilled/delighted at the prospect of seeing her again.

They have two domestic helpers because their farmhouse is enormous and they lack any/have no inclination towards/for housework. She and her family manage/run/own/have a farm. She showed me around her farmhouse including her room. She said we'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall. They've adopted several dogs and cats. They understand when you've adopted a pet, you have/take responsibility for playing with that pet and taking care of its physical needs, ensuring that it's loved and well fed/make/give a commitment to.../you've committed to playing.../you cannot back out of your commitment to play... One of her dogs and one of her cats have recently borne/given birth a litter (= born at the same time and have the same mother) of puppies and kittens. The dog seemed parched so I gave it some water. Her grandad/grandpa had just got home from going fishing and hooked his cane over the back of the chair. He's such a cheapskate that he cuts his hair himself. He's very kind and generous who kept saying make yourself home and kept offering me food and drinks. You make me feel like a freeloader. A freeloader is a person who takes advantage of others' generosity, such as food, money and a room in a house without giving anything in return/exchange. How's your day been? Sit, take a load off. Spill the beans/the tea. Come in/Come on in and take a load off (your feet). She was supposed to make a speech but someone else agreed to do it for her. Before that, she said to herself hopefully, touch wood someone else will do it for me. I'm so relieved that I don't have to make/give/deliver a speech. It's/That's (such) a load/weight off my mind. Her grandma was most of her life a non-smoking teetotaler and lived modestly. How many salmon/bass/fish did you hook? While doing fishing, he inadvertently kicked his shoe into the lake which was then floating on the surface of the water so he immediately hooked the shoe out of the water with his cane. Then he sat on the sofa/settee and watched a nature/wildlife documentary where it featured a pack of wolves/a parliament of owls/a pride of lions/a swarm of bees in the forest and their lives/a school of fish/whales/dolphins swimming in the ocean and their lives. A vacant plot of land and a vegetable land adjoins his house. A barn also adjoins an area of land/the field where the farm animals live. She has a stallion and a gravid mare who has borne several foals. Most animals bear their young in spring. She put her dog on a lead, tying the lead to her dog to her collar/tying the lead to his harness. While showing me around her farmhouse, she hooked a trailer/tractor to her car, drove her car to the other side/end of her farm, unhooked the trailer/tractor from her car and left them there. Simultaneously, she showed me a beautiful and serene lake nearby in which a flock of ducks and ducklings, a gaggle of geese and a few swans and cyngets were swimming. Standing by it, I took in the beauty and the serenity of the lake. Near the lake, I also noticed a flock of birds/cuckoos, a covey/bevy of quail/quails, a murder of crows, a herd of deers and fawns and a mob/court/troop of kangaroos and joeys as well as bears/pandas/wolves/foxes and their (bear) cubs. Cuckoos are able to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. On her farm, she has a flock of chickens and chicks, a flock of sheeps and lambs, a rafter of turkeys and cattle. Some of her hens aren't laying well (= not producing many eggs). Later, I threw her the rope/threw the rope to her who then caught the rope and knotted it around/tied it to the post/tree. The tree she planted had never/finally borne fruit/took a long time to bear fruit.

Then we walked/headed diagonally across the field towards/to reach her farmhouse in which she unhooked her bra/necklace and she put on another bra/necklace, reaching behind her back/neck to do up/fasten the hooks/hook. There was a clasp attached to the necklace/bracelet. She threw on a jumper but it was itchy/scratchy so she ripped it off (= remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly), crumpled it (into a ball) and chucked/slung/tossed it onto the floor. Then she put/threw/slipped on/slipped into a hoodie with a diagonal white stripe on the front and brought along her diary which has a diagonal black stripe on the cover. Then we went for a pleasant saunter in the countryside/a rural area/town in Tokyo/a suburb of Tokyo/the suburbs of Tokyo/suburban Tokyo where we started strolling leisurely/saunter pleasantly along a road that runs/is parallel to the river. For example, Queen's Road Central is parallel to Wellington Street. The two roads are parallel. Later, we reached the city centre where we walked/headed diagonally across the square towards/to reach her favourite cafe. As we were strolling there, a pedestrian asked us how they could get to the shopping mall. To reach the shopping mall, you cut through/across (= get to somewhere by a quicker and more direct way than the usual way) the park/car park/It's quickest if you cut diagonally through/across the park. The route/path goes diagonally through/across the city/park. She drew a diagonal line from one corner to the other and wrote down the tasks she needed to do/carry out/complete during/in the daytime and at nighttime, showing each part in a different colour. The top/upper part coloured yellow showed the tasks in the daytime while the bottom/lower part coloured red showed the tasks at nighttime. She teaches piano too. Some of her students still can't distinguish (the difference) between a tenuto and an accent/distinguish a tenuto from an accent/tell the difference between a tenuto and an accent/tell a tenuto from an accent/discriminate between a tenuto and an accent. Some of them were always in and out of the zone during their lessons. Some of them use convenient piano benches/Some of their piano benches are convenient because they can store the piano books inside the piano benches/stools. Sit with your knees straight. Don't sit with your knees apart/open. Don't sit with your ankles locked/crossed/with locked ankles/in the figure four (leg) lock position. She occasionally runs over time/the lesson occasionally runs over/overruns by five minutes. While drinking her hot chocolate in sips, she talked about her family holiday to Japan where they had/stayed in adjacent/adjoining rooms at a hotel that is adjacent to/handy for the train station which made their family holiday a breeze. On our family holiday to Japan, we asked for adjacent/adjoining rooms and our hotel is adjacent to/handy for the train station. Both our adjoining rooms and the location of the hotel made our family holiday a breeze. There was one time/once an instance while on holiday in Japan, when she was in an adjoining room and could hear voices from the other room which... Later, we moved over to the table by which we sat on the sofa/settee. She took a stack (= neatly piled)/pile of leaflets and envelopes out of her bag and placed/sorted/arranged them in/into two (neat) (separate) piles/and stacked them (up)/piled them (up) (neatly). It turned out the leaflets were an ad/advert/advertisement for her piano teaching/to promote/advertise her piano teaching and she was going to send them to other people's houses. She had five hundred envelopes to stuff with leaflets/had five hundred leaflets to stuff into envelopes. Then she sat cross-legged on a cushion on the floor where she was stuffing leaflets into the envelopes, tearing the sheets of stamps along the perforations and sticking a stamp on each envelope.

While doing so, I sank back into/leaned back against the cushions and took/had a sip/a few sips of the hot chocolate, us continuing to chat. She's recently had an interview for teaching piano at a music centre during which she was tested on piano music to measure her knowledge of piano music and her ability to play the piano. She said both the interview and the test were a breeze. You've really got to prepare for these things. You can't just wing it. She once hadn't prepared for an interview/She hadn't prepared for an inexperienced terrier (just) the once so she had to wing it and in the end, she didn't get the job. When we headed back, she knocked on the door with a door knocker but no one answered the door so she put the key into the keyhole and turned the door handle to open the door after which she filed her nails and plucked her eyebrows. She originally invited her friend to her place that night but her friend had informed her about/of taking a rain check on (= cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time) that drink due to work so she was sorely disappointed/absolutely gutted at/by/about it, slumping her shoulders. She said mind if I take a rain check on that drink? I have to work late tonight.

2.
One day during my trip, I visited my friend's house which backs onto (= its back faces it) a river. She looked through the peephole and opened the door. She's tall, six foot one and big boned (= of a person or animal, of larger than average build without being fat). She has a good/great/lovely/beautiful/amazing figure. She does a lot of exercise and consumes healthy food to keep her figure. I've never seen her lose her figure/She does a lot of exercise and consumes foods that are good for her health and the figure so she's watching her figure. Most women have to watch their figure. She also loves dancing and has weekly dancing lessons. Dancing is fun and great for your figure. She doesn't (like to) talk shop at the weekends/over a coffee. She had several artificial Christmas trees. We can make a killing on these artificial Christmas trees if we are able to market them in time for the holidays. She's looking to book a holiday package so she's mulling over all the options/all the packages she's interested in. She needs a few days to mull things over before she makes up her mind. Unlike her younger brother who tends to dwell on the past/past memories instead of moving forward, She's a positive person who doesn't dwell on past mistakes and present miseries. She always says to her younger brother so you made a mistake. There's no need to dwell on it/I don't want to dwell on this subject for too long/I have no time to dwell on present miseries (= great unhappiness). Apparently, her brother has recently broken up with her girlfriend so he's been wandering around/moping about/dilly-dallying (= waste time through being slow, aimlessly wandering or indecision) all week/acting like a lovesick teenager. As he's down in the dumps, of course I didn't rub it in. He's got a job selling insurance but he isn't exactly making a killing. Her dad is fuddy-duddy/a fuddy-duddy/a stick in the mud and a creature of habit. Every time the whole family dines out, he has to go to the same restaurant. Her parents made a killing with/on the sales of their house in Tokyo. Her elder brother got hitched last year. When his wife bore him a son, he couldn't hide his delight/joy. She had borne four kids by the time she was thirty. When the company announced it was going to lay off/pay off a hundred workers, it alarmed him/he was alarmed/He felt a growing sense of alarm when the company announced it was going to lay off/pay off a hundred workers, realizing she might face the terrifying prospect of unemployment. Many workers would face the gloomy/grim/bleak prospect of losing their jobs. Fortunately, he wasn't sacked. The prospect of sharing an office with a colleague of his who's a bully fills him with horror. His wife is alarmed/appalled at/by/concerned about/for her husband about/for/at/by/over/upset about/over/at/by/dreads (= very worried)/doesn't relish the prospect of sharing an office with him. He had a crush on a female colleague of his. Traveling around the world alone is a daunting prospect so he relishes the exciting/attractive prospect of traveling the world with her. He secretly relishes the prospect/thought/idea of being alone with her/chance of/for a date with her/of going.../opportunity for a date with her/of/for going... A date with her is an exciting/attractive prospect. There was one time/once an instance when he went to a bar, being under the impression that she would be there so he said my plan didn't work out so it's back to the drawing board. However, this time he knew for sure that she would be at a party. Knowing she would be there, he said to himself hopefully, touch wood she's going to be in there most of the time. At the party, he plucked up courage to approach her, asking her out to dinner next week so he's excited/thrilled/delighted at the prospect of seeing her again.

They have two domestic helpers because their farmhouse is enormous and they lack any/have no inclination towards/for housework. She and her family manage/run/own/have a farm. She showed me around her farmhouse including her room. She said we'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall. They've adopted several dogs and cats. They understand when you've adopted a pet, you have/take responsibility for playing with that pet and taking care of its physical needs, ensuring that it's loved and well fed/make/give a commitment to.../you've committed to playing.../you cannot back out of your commitment to play... One of her dogs and one of her cats have recently borne/given birth a litter (= born at the same time and have the same mother) of puppies and kittens. The dog seemed parched so I gave it some water. Her grandad/grandpa had just got home from going fishing and hooked his cane over the back of the chair. He's such a cheapskate that he cuts his hair himself. He's very kind and generous who kept saying make yourself home and kept offering me food and drinks. You make me feel like a freeloader. A freeloader is a person who takes advantage of others' generosity, such as food, money and a room in a house without giving anything in return/exchange. How's your day been? Sit, take a load off. Spill the beans/the tea. Come in/Come on in and take a load off (your feet). She was supposed to make a speech but someone else agreed to do it for her. Before that, she said to herself hopefully, touch wood someone else will do it for me. I'm so relieved that I don't have to make/give/deliver a speech. It's/That's (such) a load/weight off my mind. Her grandma was most of her life a non-smoking teetotaler and lived modestly. How many salmon/bass/fish did you hook? While doing fishing, he inadvertently kicked his shoe into the lake which was then floating on the surface of the water so he immediately hooked the shoe out of the water with his cane. Then he sat on the sofa/settee and watched a nature/wildlife documentary where it featured a pack of wolves/a parliament of owls/a pride of lions/a swarm of bees in the forest and their lives/a school of fish/whales/dolphins swimming in the ocean and their lives. A vacant plot of land and a vegetable land adjoins his house. A barn also adjoins an area of land/the field where the farm animals live. She has a stallion and a gravid mare who has borne several foals. Most animals bear their young in spring. She put her dog on a lead, tying the lead to her dog to her collar/tying the lead to his harness. While showing me around her farmhouse, she hooked a trailer/tractor to her car, drove her car to the other side/end of her farm, unhooked the trailer/tractor from her car and left them there. Simultaneously, she showed me a beautiful and serene lake nearby in which a flock of ducks and ducklings, a gaggle of geese and a few swans and cyngets were swimming. Standing by it, I took in the beauty and the serenity of the lake. Near the lake, I also noticed a flock of birds/cuckoos, a covey/bevy of quail/quails, a murder of crows, a herd of deers and fawns and a mob/court/troop of kangaroos and joeys as well as bears/pandas/wolves/foxes and their (bear) cubs. Cuckoos are able to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. On her farm, she has a flock of chickens and chicks, a flock of sheeps and lambs, a rafter of turkeys and cattle. Some of her hens aren't laying well (= not producing many eggs). Later, I threw her the rope/threw the rope to her who then caught the rope and knotted it around/tied it to the post/tree. The tree she planted had never/finally borne fruit/took a long time to bear fruit.