F2F Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Write the 红烧肉 recipe from last homework.

Vocabulary

Do vs. Make – “do” is an action, an activity, a process; “make” is to create, to produce, to cause
e.g. What are you doing? Swimming / running / building a house / studying English (verbs)
e.g. What are you making? A house / a plane / clothes / coffee (nouns)
e.g. He made me very angry! (he did something that caused my anger)

Pronoun – a noun which replaces another noun
e.g. He, she, it, they, them, we, etc.

Effects vs. Effectiveness – what happens; are the results produced helpful to achieving our goals, are they good, helpful, well done?
e.g. Our advertisements did have the effect of increasing sales, but it wasn’t very effective. It cost too much and sales did not increase as much as we had hoped.
— specifically in medicine: an effect is a change that the drug causes, often including effects not related to goal of using the medicine
e.g. The effect of this medicine is to produce a fever, but it’s not effective at destroying tumors.

Campaign – a long effort, with many parts, to achieve a goal or some set of goals
e.g. The military campaign was successful, as we recaptured the cities held by the enemy.
e.g. The political campaign season in the US is much too long!
e.g. The advertisement campaign will include bus, radio, and tv advertisements.

Lack vs. Lack of – verb vs. noun
— “Lack” can be used by itself and directly with the object.
e.g. He lacks common sense.
— “Lack of” is a noun phrase, so it needs a verb to help out. This is usually “there is”
e.g. There is a lack of people with common sense.

Millimeter – 1/1000 of a meter
Other unit prefixes:
Giga, mega, centa, deca, [unit] deci, centi, milli, micro = 1,000,000,000; 1,000,000; 100; 10 [unit] .1; .01; .0001; .0000000001 (I think) Check this page:

Powerpoint – the full name for ppt

Just regular work, but it’s so busy. Do a lot of ppt slides and discussion with my boss. Do a lot of document work. I wrote a lot of experiment reports about some pharmaceutical drugs to evaluate its anti-tumor effects. We implant the tumor cells into the nude mice. (They don’t have immune system.) Until the tumor grows bigger, and we treated the nude mice with our candidate anti-tumor drugs. After that, we evaluate the tumor size to exam the effect of the drugs effect. I made the ppt slides for my boss.

Just regular work, but it’s so busy. I made a lot of ppt slides and discuss them / the results / the reports / the problems (with what?) with my boss. I did a lot of document work. I also wrote a lot of experiment reports about some anti-tumor pharmaceutical drugs to evaluate their anti-tumor effects and effectiveness. We implant the tumor cells into the nude mice. (They don’t have immune systems.)** Once the tumor grows bigger to about 200mm, and we treated the nude mice with our candidate anti-tumor drugs. After that, we evaluate the tumor size to examine the effect of the drugs’ effect. I made the ppt slides for my boss.

** They lack an immune system.