F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [W]***

Reread the story below. Discuss any grammar or vocabulary you don’t 100% understand in your next class. Be prepared to retell the same story naturally, without any memorization.

FOCUS ON YOUR GRAMMAR, PLEASE. 🙂

Vocabulary

Catia likes dry/crunchy/crispy cereal not wet/soggy/soft cereal.

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soggy adj. – of things that can absorb water,especially food unpleasantly wet and soft
eg. Soak the French bread in milk and eggs until it is soggy, then pan fry the bread to make French toast, then add cinnamon and sugar.

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soaked adj. – extremely wet
eg. Our clothes are soaked from the rain.
eg. My pants are soaked.
eg. When I work out my towel is soaked.

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soak / soaking / soaked / will soak verb-  to make sth extremely wet
eg. Before you get a foot massage, the woman will soak your feet in a hot foot bath.
eg. Soak the towel in the soapy water to clean the dinner table.
eg. Catia soaked her dirty clothes in laundry detergent before she washed them.
eg. This morning I soaked my bikini in water and laundry soap because it smelled like chlorine from the pool.

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a moment is usually smaller or shorter than awhile
eg. Can you wait just a moment? I need to go to the restroom.
eg. Please wait a moment.
eg. Celeste has worked at SE for awhile. (here, awhile = more than 1 year)
eg. Catia waited awhile before her class started. ( here, awhile = a few minutes)

Pronunciation

subtle ( suh – dull )

Yesterday during my english class Celeste asked me if i felt good, i say yes. It’s true i didn’t find my vocabulary and a little distracted but i felt good. After the course while my journey to came at home my vison start to became blurred and had pins and needles on my left arm. Oh no, not that and not on the street alone. I knew what’s happened with me. Immediately i wrote and send a message to informed my husband ” i have a crisis outside” because my vision can disappear completely during a moment. I walked faster but to difficult because i saw blurred. Finally I arrived at home and i took my medecine, i closed the curtain because i can’t see light and sleep. After 2 hours i wake up with thrombbing headache. I took an other medecine for headache but it calm a little and the pain stay stable.I had a Deficiency magnesium crisis. I knew that because it happened to me 2 times before. One in 2012 while my job and 2 years ago when i arrived in Shanghai. This can happen when you are nervous, stressed, anxious, tired, troubles of sleep, when the season change… but every person have different react. My symptoms are:
I see many white stars, after blurred and no more vision, black out.
I feel pins and needles on my hands, arms and that propagate/ spread on my legs or face. It’s horrible because sometimes i don’t feel my tongue or others parts of my body.
I lose memory for a moment. When it happened in Shanghai my husband was with me. He didn’t know what to do so he discuss with me but when i asked, who is Claire? Or who is Pierre? He was very scared because Claire is my best friend and Pierre my father-in-law.
I have headache for one week.
My body abandon me completly.
Sometimes i makes me cry without reason. It happened on my job, my boss asked me the project about one client and i didn’t remember this client so after i start to cry and my boss asked me, why you cry? I doooonnn’ttt nooooooo. Funny today to explained that but so weird for me and my boss.
My body lose power. Any physical effort became a supplice. I lose my muscle for many weeks.
I’m really unlucky because normally the symptoms of this disease it’s just slowdown and me it’s so hard.
I think it’s time to go back to france a moment because i’m really unhappy in Shanghai and the preparation to my wedding stressed me so my body alert me.

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Yesterday during my english class Celeste asked me if I felt good, I said yes. It was true. I was having a hard time with my vocabulary and was a little distracted but I felt good. After the lesson while I was going home my vision started to become blurred and I had pins and needles on my left arm. I thought: “Oh no, not that and not while I’m on the street alone”. I knew what was happening to me, so I immediately wrote and sent a message to inform my husband, saying that I was having a crisis outside. I did it because I was afraid that my vision could disappear completely for a moment. I walked faster but with difficulty, because my sight was blurred. Finally I arrived home, took my medicine,  closed the curtains to block the light and fell asleep.

After 2 hours i woke up with a throbbing headache. I took another medicine for headaches but it calmed a little and the pain stayed stable. I had a  magnesium deficiency crisis. I knew that because it happened to me 2 times before. Once in 2012 while I was working / while I was at work  and 2 years ago when i arrived in Shanghai. This can happen when you are nervous, stressed, anxious, tired,  having troubles sleeping, when the seasons change… but every person has different reactions.
My symptoms are:
I see many white stars, then/next blurred vision and after/then no more vision, I black out.
I feel pins and needles in my hands and arms and that propagates/spreads to my legs or face. It’s horrible because sometimes i don’t feel my tongue or others parts of my body.
I lose memory for a moment. When it happened in Shanghai my husband was with me. He didn’t know what to do so he distracted me/kept me conscious but when i asked, who is Claire? Or who is Pierre? He was very scared because Claire is my best friend and Pierre is my father-in-law.
I almost had a headache for one week. My body abandoned me completely.
Sometimes I cry without a reason.

The first time (I cried without a reason) happened at work. / The first time this happened was at work.  My boss asked me about the project and the client and i didn’t remember this client so after i started to cry and my boss asked me, “Why are you crying?”  “I doooonnn’ttt knooooooow.” Today it is funny to explain that but it was so weird for me and my boss.
My body lost power. Any physical effort became torture. I lost my muscles for many weeks.
I’m really unlucky because normally the symptoms of this disease make a person just slow down and become tired but for me it’s worse.
I think it’s time to go back to france for awhile because i’m really unhappy in Shanghai and the preparation for/of my wedding stressed me so my body alerted me.