F2F Class Notes (Nemo)[S]

Vocabulary


polite有礼貌的
impolite-不礼貌的

sculpture (n): 1-the art of creating objects out of material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone, or a work of art of this type:
E.g.: In the ruins they found ancient stone sculptures.

sculptor-雕塑家

bust (n): 1-a model of the head and shoulders of a person:
E.g.: There was a bust of Chairman Mao on his desk.

caricature (n): 人物漫画 a funny drawing or picture of sb that exaggerates some of their features

prank (n): 1- 恶作剧;玩笑 A prank is a childish trick.
E.g.: When I was at school we were always playing pranks on our teachers.
E.g.: I’ve had enough of your childish pranks.

rivalry (n): 1-a situation in which people, businesses, etc. compete with each other for the same thing:
E.g.: There’s such rivalry among/between my three sons.
E.g.: There’s fierce rivalry for the job/to get the job.

rival (n): 1-a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area:
E.g.: He beat his closest/nearest rival by 20 marks.

popularize (v):1- to make something become popular:
E.g.: This cartoon popularized basketball-这部动画片普及了篮球运动
2-to make something known and understood by ordinary people:
E.g.: Television has an important role to play in popularizing new scientific ideas.

outsider (n): a person who is not liked or accepted as a member of a particular group, organization, or society and who feels different from those people who are accepted as members:
E.g.: As a child he was very much an outsider, never participating in the games other children played.

outcast (n): 1-a person who has no place in their society or in a particular group, because the society or group refuses to accept them:
E.g.: She has spent her life trying to help the homeless and other social outcasts.
E.g.: She was a political outcast after the Party expelled her in 1982.

Speaking exercise

When I was 10 yeas old I saw this crtoon and this is a story about a bo, he is not good at studying but he likes a girl and girl likes watching basketball. So he joins BB group in a school, and he met many good friends in the group, and before he joined the BB group he can only do many pranks. He is a leader of a group, maybe the group has 4 members and the other members all support him to join the BB group. And in the group there is a person he wants to defeat and the whole story is about both of them rivalry. And after watching manga I know many BB roles, the boy in the class begin to play basketball they don’t like football because of this manga.

When I was 10 yeas old I saw this cartoon and . This is a story about a boy, he is not good at studying but he likes a girl and the girl likes watching basketball. So he joins school’s BB team in a school, and  over there he meets many good friends in the group, and before joining the team he wasn’t popular with his teachers. He was a leader of a small group of outsiders, and all of the members supported him to join the BB team. Once he joined the BB team he met a guy who’s going to become his biggest rival. And after watching this  manga I became familiar with/start to know  many BB rules, My classmates began to like basketball more and more rather than football after seeing this cartoon!

Pronunciation

caricature-[ˈkærɪkətʃər]

sculptor-/ˈskʌlp.tɚ/