F2F Class Notes (Raph)

Vocabulary

Disease (n): 1- an illness.
E.g.: The first symptom of the disease is a very high temperature.

Symptom (n): 1- any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease:
E.g.: He’s complaining of all the usual flu symptoms – a high temperature, headache, and so on.

Migraine (n): 1- severe continuous pain in the head, often with vomiting and difficulty in seeing. 2- 偏头痛
E.g.: Do you suffer from migraine ?
E.g.: Considering the amount of stress she’s under, it’s not surprising she keeps getting migraines.

Intense (adj): 1- extreme and forceful or (of a feeling) very strong.
E.g.: I had a very intense week.
E.g.: He suddenly felt an intense pain in his back.

Affect (v): to have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change in someone or something.
E.g.: Both buildings were badly affected by the fire.
E.g.: The divorce affected every aspect of her life.
E.g.: Alzheimer’s (阿尔茨海默氏病) is a disease that affects older people.
E.g.: I was deeply affected by the film (= it caused strong feelings in me).
E.g.: The experience affected him negatively.

Effect (n): 1-  a change that results when something is done or happens; an event, condition, or state of affairs that is produced by a cause.
E.g.: The defeat had a terrible effect [=impact] on the team’s spirits.
E.g.: He now needs more of the drug to get the same effect.
E.g.: The experience has had a negative effect on him.

Grammar

(Original – Edited)

One of my coworker is on vacation. – One of my coworkers is on vacation. 

In everyday speech, affect is a verb. It means to influence something, such as in the headline from the Albuquerque News,

Downed Power Line Affects PNM Customers

The downed power line had an impact on some power customers: they were without electricity overnight.

Effect is mostly commonly used as a noun meaning the result or impact of something, an outcome. If there’s “a/an/the” in front of it, it’s an effect. The second sentence is from a story about the outcome of long-term sleeping trouble,

The Effect of Persistent Sleepiness

Adding to the confusion, effect can also be used as a verb to mean to produce or to cause to come into being. Here’s an example that uses it correctly,

A government unable to effect any change is a government that will produce no surprises.

Put another way, a government that can’t produce change won’t be able to produce surprises; it will be predictable.

Most of the time, you’ll want affect as a verb meaning to influence something and effect for the something that was influenced. The difference between affect and effect is so slippery that people have started using “impact” as a verb instead. Don’t be one of them! Another trick is to remember that affect comes first alphabetically, and an action (to affect) has to occur before you can have a result (an effect).