F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [R]

Read the article below a few times to become more familiar with it. Then, in your next class, be prepared to tell a summary of it.

Also, try to use the vocabulary in the story.

Some Chinese businesses overestimated the importance of Chinese Valentine’s Day so they offered a lot of discounts and promotions.

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Q: Are you blunt or do you have tact?
A: Sometimes I’m blunt.

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Q: When have you needed to take matters into your own hands?
A: If I have a trip with someone else and the trip plan will be taked by myself matters. – very vague
A: I need to take matters into my own hands when I go on vacation with my friends and plan everything.

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Q: When do you normally get fed up?
A: I get fed up when I make a sentence with wrong pronunciation or grammar.

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Q: Have you ever been in a collision?
A: Five years ago, I had a collision with another car. – Five years ago, I was on a motorbike and I got in a collision with a car.

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Some countries in Europe have made restrictions for refugees.

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Some people moved from downtown to the countryside because of gentrification.

Vocabulary

totalled v. – when a vehicle or motorbike is completely destroyed
eg. You totalled your motorbike five years ago in a collision.
eg. In 2009, Celeste totalled her first car in an accident.

Fishermen Catch a Big Fish

A group of fishermen in Peru working in the northwest of the country discovered a huge manta ray which local media said weighs just over a tonne. People said that the ray swam into the fishermen’s net as they trawled for fish in a homemade wooden boat.

The enormous, 8-metre creature was found in the La Crove cave in waters near the border with Ecuador. A fisherman said that it was so big, that it could not be loaded onto their boat and had to be transported by a tow truck.

In ancient Peru, the manta ray, which is in the same biological order as smaller stingrays, was often represented in art where they were feared because of their size. People believed that they ate fish and sank boats, and it was not until the late 1970’s that perceptions began to change. This was when people realised that they were actually pretty placid and harmless to humans.

Difficult words:
trawl (pull a trawl net – a large fishing net)
enormous (very big)
creature (an animal)
tow truck (a truck for moving heavy things)
perception (the way people think about something)
placid (calm and peaceful)