F2F Class Notes (Raph) [W]

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Vocabulary

Persist (v): 1- 坚持

Insist (v): 1- 咬定

Confidence (n): 1- 置信度

Security (n): 1- 安全

Company (n): 1- 公司

Salesperson (n): 1- 售货员

Brisk (adj): 1- quick, energetic, and active. 2- 轻快
E.g.: We went for a brisk walk around the lake.

Sentence (n): 1- 句子

Original:

When I was a little girl,I’d like to play the basketball.Because the action looks particularly handsome.But,I did not insist.Maybe basketball is not my favorite things.I like to sing.Music can give me security.Happy, sad, brisk, heavy, there is always a mood for you.Only music has always been with me.The true love is persistence, because it is easy to like one thing, but persistence is the hardest.

Edited:

When I was a little girl, I liked to play basketball because the action looked very/really nice/good/fun/cool. But,I did not persist. Maybe basketball is not my favorite thing. I like to sing. Music can give me confidence. Happy, sad, quick/energetic/light-hearted/lively, heavy/serious, there is always a mood for you. Music is the only thing that has always been with me. True love is about persistence. It is easy to like something, but persistence is difficult / is not / but to persist isn’t.

Grammar

Noun (名词) = a name of a person, a place, an animal, a thing, etc.
E.g.: Nicole, Raph, classroom, coffee, computer, table, chair, book, pen, Shanghai, China, phone, bag, water, etc.

Pronoun (代词) = a word that is used in the place of a noun.
E.g.: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, my, mine, her, his, our, them, their, etc.

Verb (动词) = an action = something you do.
E.g.: to be, to go, to dance, to see, to sing, to study, to speak, to learn, etc.

Adjective (形容词) = a word used to describe (描述) a noun or a pronoun.
E.g.: beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty, ugly, sweet, sour, nice, good, bad, difficult, easy, delicious, yummy, etc.

Pronunciation

Particularly: /pɚˈtɪk.jə.lɚ.li/

Insist: /ɪnˈsɪst/

Security: /səˈkjʊr.ə.t̬i/

Brisk: /brɪsk/

Heavy: /ˈhev.i/

Persistence: /pɚˈsɪs.t^əns/

Hardest: /hɑːrd.est/

Specific:  /spəˈsɪf.ɪk/

General: /ˈdʒen.ər.əl/

Opposite: /ˈɑː.pə.zɪt/

Adjective: /ˈædʒ.ek.tɪv/

Hour: /aʊr/