F2F Class Notes (Jacob) [W, L]

Homework

Read more about the gaming disorder and make several opinions to give to your teacher.

http://www.who.int/features/qa/gaming-disorder/en/


Vocabulary

Big –> Large –>  giant –> huge –> enormous –> massive –> gigantic –> colossal 

microscopic –> Tiny –> petite –> small

Trivial – no value, no meaning, no importance
eg My supervisor just likes to hear his own voice and what he says is usually trivial.

Narrowly – something happen but it does (barely/closely/carefully)
eg. I started my homework 1 hour before classes and was narrowly (barely) able to finish it.
eg. I forgot to count how many words my paper was but luckily it was narrowly over the requirement.
eg. The exam started at 12:00, but I narrowly missed the start time. 12:01

I was almost late but I got there 1 minute before.

You must learn to walk before you can run = you should learn the basics before trying more advanced things.

Precedence – becomes the most important thing over other things

Dominating – controlling or taking most of something (time, money, etc)
Donating – giving something away to others who needs.


Grammar

Almost doesn’t happen = does happen (almost doesn’t is a double negative which means it did happen)

I almost didn’t complete my work before leaving the office. (use the current tense because ‘didn’t)
I almost completed my work before I left the office. (here we must use the past tense)

           Yes or no                           reason (for yes/no)                     What changed (decision changed – not common)
I almost didn’t eat the spicy chicken wings,     but I really wanted to try them,      until I saw someone get sick. (did i eat them? –> no, someone got sick)
I almost ate the spicy chicken wings,      but I saw someone got sick,      so I waited and tried them another day (did i eat them? –> yes, another day

More better = be better
didn’t not good = isn’t good


Pronunciation

gigantic [ jI-gan-tick]

microscopic [micro-scop-pick]


Writing exercise

Original

Hi Nemo

Good afternoon

Today I read an article that about some US colleges offer full scholarships to Gamer, this is really good news for the younger generation, because they have an adequate reason for them to play games through electric tools.
When I was a child, my parents didn’t allow me to play any esports since it will affect my normal learning they thought. At the same time the whole esports industry is also in lower level due to few people focusing and playing. But with the development of technology and computer, the more and more people like play games within this. I found every child has the play game experience now, because their parent let them to play games sometime in order to make them be quiet. In my opinion these is not good behavior.

In China, it still takes some time to make people to accept this new industry. If you like esports please focus on deeply studying, then maybe is your development direction in near further .

Thanks
Candy

Edited

Hi Nemo

Good afternoon

Today I read an article that is about some US colleges offering full scholarships to gamers, this is really good news for the younger generation, because they have an adequate reason for them to play games through electric devices tools.
When I was a child, my parents didn’t allow me to play any e-sports since it will would affect my normal learning or so they thought. At the same time the whole e-sports industry is also in a lower level due to few people focusing and playing. But with the development of technology and computers, the more and more people like playing esport games within this. I found every child has the play gaming experience now, because their parent let them to play games sometime in order to make them be quiet. In my opinion this is not good behavior.

In China, it still takes some time to make people to accept this new industry. If you like e-sports please focus on deeply studying, then maybe is your development direction in near future is better.

Thanks
Candy