F2F Class Notes (Celeste)

Next class, review this sentence and help Ruby understand any vocab. 
3、Last season felt lackluster at times, but with each day bringing little teases like this, we find ourselves getting more and more excited for the upcoming fifth season.

Homework

Write a diary entry and review it in your next class. Focus on grammar. 

Vocabulary

The rain is not helping cool down the temperature (outside).

warm up / heat up – to get sth hotter

cool down – to get sth colder

It was workable – It was effective

I will feeled a little weird about my tooth. – My tooth feels a little weird to me. 

a far cry from sth – to be completely different from sth

rare adj. – unique or very different

digit/s n. – number from 0 to 9


I read 3 sentences as example when I was learning the word ‘lackluster’, and I hope you can help me to learn these sentences well.

1、But that’s a far cry from saying that some people are just genetically doomed to be lackluster and others are destined to be brilliant.

2、Last week, Hewlett-Packard pointed to double-digit reveun growth in China as a rare bright spot in an otherwise lackluster earnings report.

3、Last season felt lackluster at times, but with each day bringing little teases like this, we find ourselves getting more and more excited for the upcoming fifth season.

I checked a dictionary to review ‘lackluster’ and these were the 3 example sentences. I understand them but/however, there are a few words that I’m not sure about.
Please review these (new words/phrases/expressions) with me in my next class. 

1、But that’s a far cry from saying that some people are just genetically doomed to be lackluster and others are destined to be brilliant.

2、Last week, Hewlett-Packard pointed to double-digit revenue growth in China as a rare bright spot in an otherwise lackluster earnings report.

3、Last season felt lackluster at times, but with each day bringing little teases like this, we find ourselves getting more and more excited for the upcoming fifth season.