F2F Class Notes (Celeste)

Vocabulary

Even in Chinese, I’m not good at writing.

Q: How are you today? / How’s your day going? / What’s up? / What’s new?

A: I did a lot of experiments today…

…and one of them was successful / one of them failed.
…to see if a treatment can impact the expression of TFEB which is a nuclear factor which I repeated 5 times today. (say this to your colleagues) / I wanted to see if a treatment was successful. (say to normal people)
and I wanted to separate a nucleus from a cell. It’s not too difficult however/but it takes 2 days to do this once.

To some extent, I work by myself. = I work alone.
To some extent, I work for myself. = I am my boss.

anticipate (to wait) vs. participate (to be part of sth)

Grammar

apply for sth –  She wanted to apply for her master’s degree.

go out of a place –  We needed to go out of the classroom and wait for the professor.

Pronunciation

felt vs. failed ( fei ull d )

little ( lih – tull )

tongue ( tung )

prepare ( pre payer )

dumb vs. done