F2F Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

heads-up (n): 1-a warning that something is going to happen, usually so that you can prepare for it:
E.g.: This note is just to give you a heads-up that Vicky will be arriving next week.
​2-a short talk or statement about how a situation or plan is developing:
E.g.: The boss called a meeting to give us a heads-up on the way the project was going.

repatriate (v): 1-to send or bring someone, or sometimes money or other property, back to the country that he, she, or it came from:
E.g.: The government repatriated him because he had no visa.

spousal (adj):done by a person’s husband or wife, or relating to husbands and wives:
E.g.: spousal visa
E.g.: a spousal relationship

Grammar

lend vs borrow
Lend means ‘give something to someone for a short time, expecting that you will get it back’. The past simple and the -ed form are lent:

I never lend my CDs to anyone.

I lent Gary £30. (I expect that Gary will return this to me)

Borrow is a regular verb meaning ‘get something from someone, intending to give it back after a short time’:

Could I borrow your pen for a minute, please?

Laura used to borrow money from me all the time.

*When you give something, you lend it; when you get or receive something, you borrow it:

Can I borrow your dictionary?

Not: Can I lend your dictionary? 

Pronunciation

report-/rɪˈpɔːt/

spouse-/spaʊs/

choir-/kwaɪər/