Online Class Notes (Lily)
Next Class Focus
start reviewing from April 16, 2019
Grammar
to have = to possess
a lot of = lots of
ex: I have a lot of clothes= I have lots of clothes.
I got laid= I had sex
Vocabulary
1. narrow- minded= small town mentality
ex: he’s narrow- minded, he never sees the big picture.
2. regional discrimination= 地域歧视
ex: Regional discrimination is a huge issue in China.
3. placebo / fake medicine that is given to patients during experiments and they will tell the patient that it is a new medicine but really its not its actually just a sugar pill – they want to test if new medicines are effective (if they work well) and you test this by giving 50% of the people the new drug and 50% of the people a placebo drug and you dont tell them which is which.
4. placebo effect / even though someone received the sugar fake pill their health still improved…and thats because their mind or their mental ability told themselves that they would get well soon and they tricked themselves into believing it…this is the power of the mind.
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