F2F Class Notes (Jacob)

Explain the historical significance of the dragon boat festival

Vocabulary

Plate – panzi

Buffet [ba-fei]  – food is already cooked and you choose what you want to eat.
Potluck – everyone cooks one dish and you eat at someones house
Communal [Com-mun-al] – to share everything
eg. The village will have a communal meal tonight and everyone will be there
Community – an area and the people that live there (neighborhood)

Popular –  common and people really like it

Event [Ee-vent]
eg. Will you come to the event [a-vent] tonight?

Brain freeze – your brain works slowly to give you what it asks for; brain hearts from something cold like ice cream, cold drinks
eg. ohhh! Brain freeze.

Break through – to finally solve or do something difficult (as if to break through a wall)
eg. Last night at 2 am when I was doing my project, I finally had a break through and got a great idea on how to solve our problem.
I had a break through = I now understand

epiphany [a-pif-a-nee] –to have the most amazing idea or suddenly understand something
eg. I just had an epiphany and got a new business idea
eg. I had an epiphany about how we can fix our problem

historical significance – why it is important in history and has a holiday for it

Grammar

this evening I will go to dinner

Be/bee, Meet/meat,

an apartment

Pronunciation

False [Fall-se]