Learn English from Dialogue

Today’s English
March 25th, 2017

Read the following conversation and you may refer to the glossary at the end if you come across a new word:

Professor 1 : What irritates me much is the cacophony in the class.

Professor 2: What can we do with these apathetic students?

Professor 1: Unlimited internet and voice calls have sourced their unlimited loquacity.

Professor 2: Yes. They indulge in vicarious pleasures by watching videos and programmes on Whatsapp and Youtube which have changed them into prurient teenagers. 

Professor 1: whatever the question we ask, they simply remain phlegmatic. Did you see their test papers? Full of egregious errors.

Professor 2 : I’m generally indefatigable in all my work but feel enervated as soon as I enter the class. Do you have any idea to deal with these incorrigible students?

Professor 1. The parents are lenient. Shall we turn into martinets.?

Professor 2:  That won’t work out. They feel that teachers are dispensable since they can learn more from Google.

Professor 1: Do you want us to jack in?

Professor 2: No. We should make them feel that teachers are paramount.

Professor 1: how ?

Professor 2: Don’t we have the great Savoir-faire? Do you want everything to explicate?

Professor 1: ………..?!

Glossary: (Build your vocabulary)
1. Cacophony – unpleasant noises and harsh sounds.
2. Apathetic – indifferent, uninterested, uninvolved
3. Loquacity – talkativeness
4. Vicarious -second-hand
5. Prurient – sexually longing
6. Phlegmatic – emotionally unresponsive
7. Egregious – exceptional
8. Indefatigable – tireless, hardworking
9. Enervated – completely exhausted
10. Incorrigible- not easy to correct or reform
11. Martinet – disciplinarian
12. Dispensable – Not necessary
13. Jack in – resign
14. Paramount – more important
15. Savoir-faire – ability to say or do the right thing
16. Explicate – explain in detail

( Do you know? : Educational testing has showed that children of ten have been learning new words at a rate of many hundreds a year since the age of four. But adults who do not go to school learn only twenty-five to fifty words per year.)