F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)

Vocabulary

to come down to / the determining factor

e.g. If you want to buy a house in SH it usually comes down to the price.

e.g. The husband and the wife split, I guess the issue came down to his work travel.

“he said, she said” / rumors and opinions / hearsay 传闻

e.g. I didn’t want to get involved in a game of he said, she said.

inevitable / unavoidable / will eventually happen / 必然

e.g. The election of Donald Trump was inevitable because so many white Americans were unhappy.

“no end in sight” – I can see no way that this will finish or end / this will go on for a very long time / endless

e.g. The USA and Iran are fighting and we see no end in sight for the conflict.

Grammar

because we have the a plan to buy a new house

this is a school area house for her elementary school / this house is in the area of her elementary school / 

usually we need 3 part of money / the money is made up of three parts / the money consists of three parts

the house is belong to you / the house belongs to you

she don’t need to buy any house / she doesn’t need to buy any house

you need to pay the an additional tax to the government

One of many types = a/an

Only one type = the

Reading

When referees prepare for games, they go over film and tendencies, just like the teams. It is well known that the Rockets have a penchant for drawing fouls on 3-pointers. This is a part of their attack. James Harden drew 95 fouls on 3-pointers this season. He is one of the best in the history of the game at it.

It was clear that part of Golden State’s game plan is to crowd the Houston 3-point shooters. And the Houston game plan involves 3-point shooters twisting their bodies and ripping their arms into their defenders. Both teams are good at it.

So here it was. There were 10 seconds left and the Rockets were down 3. Harden, one of the greatest ever at drawing a foul, takes a 3-pointer to try to tie the score. Draymond Green, one of the great defenders of this era, leaps to challenge it.

Green comes forward into Harden’s area. Harden’s legs jackknife toward Green and Harden spills to the ground. Two officials, Courtney Kirkland and Josh Tiven, stare and call nothing.

“Call the game how it’s supposed to be called and that’s it,” Harden said. “And I’ll live with the results. But especially we all know what happened a few years back with Kawhi. That can change the entire series.”

Harden is referring to Kawhi Leonard getting undercut by Zaza Pachulia in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals in 2017. This is a reference to the stakes. That play changed that game, that series and perhaps that season’s champion.

But then you listen to Green.


https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/04/28/elon-musk-comment-should-terrify-tesla-investors.aspx

This Elon Musk Comment Should Terrify Tesla Investors

Despite reporting a huge loss for Q1, Tesla expects to return to profitability in the second half of 2019. However, Elon Musk and his team appear to be counting on a big bounce in demand that isn’t likely to materialize.

Last week, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) reported ugly results for the first quarter of 2019. The electric car pioneer had warned of impending trouble earlier this month, but investors were still caught off guard by the scale of its losses. Tesla’s net loss of $4.10 per share — or $2.90 per share, excluding stock-based compensation costs — was worse than even the most bearish analysts’ estimates. On average, analysts had been expecting a loss of just $0.69 per share.

Not surprisingly, Tesla’s terrible Q1 results did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of CEO Elon Musk. Indeed, Musk confidently predicted that Tesla will return to solid profitability in the second half of 2019 and will produce positive free cash flow beginning this quarter.

However, one comment Musk made during the Tesla earnings call should make investors extremely skeptical of these rosy predictions. Let’s take a look.