F2F Class Notes (Raph)

Write a paragraph using some of the words you’ve learned today.

Vocabulary

Reclusive (adj): 1- ​a person who lives alone and avoids going outside or talking to other people.
E.g.: He is very reclusive and refuses to give interviews.

Startup (n): 1- a small business that has just been started.
E.g.: It’s very difficult for startups to compete with bigger businesses.

Vulnerable (adj): 1- easily hurt or harmed physically, mentally, or emotionally.
E.g.: He was very vulnerable after his divorce.

Business Incubator (n): 1- Business incubation is a unique and highly flexible combination of business development processes, infrastructure and people designed to nurture new and small businesses by helping them to survive and grow through the difficult and vulnerable early stages of development.
E.g.: He runs a startup business incubator that helps to develop new companies.

Algorithm (n): 1- a set of mathematical instructions or rules that, especially if given to a computer, will help to calculate an answer to a problem.
E.g.: Music apps use algorithms to predict the probability that fans of one particular band will like another.

Mock (v): 1- to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way.
E.g.: They were mocking him because he kept falling off his bike.

Buy out (v): 1- to give someone money so that you own the part of a business that previously belonged to that person.
E.g.: She bought out her partner and now she owns the whole company.

Otter (n): 1- 水獭

Greece (n): 1- 希腊

Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) is a shy, reclusive programmer who works at a large internet company called Hooli. He is also developing a music app called Pied Piper in a live-in startup business incubator run by entrepreneur Erlich Bachman (T. J. Miller). After a rocky post-TED elevator pitch of Pied Piper to venture capitalist Peter Gregory (Christopher Evan Welch), Hendricks also shows his work to a pair of programmers at Hooli who mock him. Within hours, however, Hooli executive Donald “Jared” Dunn (Zach Woods) and Gregory’s assistant Monica (Amanda Crew) discover that the app contains a revolutionary data compression algorithm.

Grammar

Have a rest – Take a rest / Rest.

I don’t do this homework yet. – I haven’t done this homework yet.

Pronunciation

Developing: /dɪˈvel.ə.pɪŋ/

Executive:  /ɪɡˈzek.jə.t̬ɪv/

Algorithm: /ˈæl.ɡə.rɪ.ðəm/

Compression: /kəmˈpreʃ.ən/

Revolutionary: /ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən.er.i/

Biology: /baɪˈɑː.lə.dʒi/