F2F Class Notes (Raph)

Vocabulary

Shift (n): 1- a group of workers who do a job for a period of time during the day or night, or the period of time itself.
E.g.: As the night shift leave/leaves, the day shift arrive/arrives.
E.g.: Are you on the night shift or the day shift? (= Do you work during the night period or the day period?)

Shift (v/n): 1- to (cause something or someone to) move or change from one position or direction to another, especially slightly. 2- (of an idea, opinion, etc.) to change.
E.g.: She shifted (her weight) uneasily from one foot to the other.
E.g.: The wind is expected to shift (to the east) tomorrow.
E.g.: Society’s attitudes towards women have shifted enormously over the last century.
E.g.: Media attention has shifted recently onto environmental issues.

Synonym (n): 1- a word or phrase that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase in the same language.
E.g.: The words “small” and “little” are synonyms.

Antonym (n): 1- a word that means the opposite of another word.
E.g.: Two antonyms of “light” are “dark” and “heavy”.

Visa (n): 1-  an official permission that allows you to enter or leave a particular country.
E.g.: We travelled to Argentina on a tourist visa.
E.g.: My visa still hasn’t come through.
E.g.: I need to extend my visa.

Ordinal Numbers shows the position of something in a list of items: First, second, third, fourth, fifth…

Indicating Frequency: Once, twice, three times, four times, five times… one million times

Grammar

To keep him remember me. – To remind him of me. / To keep me on his mind.

My project is not so soft. – My project isn’t going so smoothly. 

One experiment, do one time, it takes ten days to do one experiment. – It takes ten days to perform an experiment once. 

Pronunciation

Healthier: /ˈhɛl.θi.ər/

Stresses:  /ˈstrɛs.əz/

Metabolism: /məˈtæb.əl.ɪ.zəm/

Wait: /weɪt/