Online Class Notes (Raph) [S]

Vocabulary

Martial Arts (n): 1- a sport that is a usually a traditional Asia form of fighting or defending yourself:
E.g.: Kung fu and karate are martial arts.

PE (n): 1- Physical Education – classes at school in which children do exercise and learn to play sport, or the area of study relating to such classes.
E.g.: Daisy used to do Tai Chi as a warm-up during PE class.
E.g.: Raph used to hate PE class.

Spontaneous (adj): 1- happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without being forced.
E.g.: His jokes seemed spontaneous, but were in fact carefully prepared beforehand.
E.g.: She’s such a spontaneous, lively woman.

Voluntary (adj): 1- done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to do it.
E.g.: She does voluntary work for the Red Cross two days a week.
E.g.: They chose to take voluntary unpaid vacation.

Anonymous (adj): 1- made or done by someone whose name is not known or not made public.
E.g.: The money was donated by an anonymous person.
E.g.: Police said an anonymous caller warned that a bomb was about to go off.

Protest (n): 1- an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc.
E.g.: Last night there was a public protest against the war.
E.g.: a peaceful/violent protest.

Nuance (n): 1- a very slight difference in appearance, meaning, sound, etc. 2- a quality of something that is not easy to notice but may be important.
E.g.: The painter has managed to capture every nuance of the woman’s expression.
E.g.: Linguists (語言學家) explore the nuances of language.
E.g.: Actors have to study the nuances of facial expression to show the whole range of emotions.
E.g.: It’s very difficult to have a nuanced conversation about politics on social media.

Literal (adj): 1- The literal meaning of a word is its original, basic meaning.
E.g.: The literal meaning of “television” is “seeing from a distance”.
E.g.: You will need to show more than just a literal understanding of the text.

Literally (adv): 1- using the real or original meaning of a word or phrase. 2- (informal)used to emphasize what you are saying – avoid it in text or formal settings.
E.g.: The Nazi were responsible for literally millions of deaths.
E.g.: We live literally just round the corner from her.
E.g.: He missed that kick literally by miles.
E.g.: I was literally dead over by the news.

Beethoven (n): 1- 貝多芬

Original:

The first time I got very drunk is when I was in college and the occasion was there was a friend birthday, we went to celebrate after dinner we to a different quieter restaurant to have drink and play games and we play a lot of games, but I don’t know my reaction was very slow, so I lost lot of game, so as a punishment I have to drink and suddenly I feel very sleepy because I drank too much. So I can’t help myself and I just fell into sleep. I don’t know how long I have slept, but suddenly someone wake me up by shaking my shoulders and I just woke up and I look around and it’s the restaurant owner who just woke me up and there’s no other people at the table, my friends walked out. I felt a little bit scared but the first thing out out of my mouth was asking the restaurant the owner was “have they paid” and he said “yes”. And I got very angry, so I just gone out of the restaurant and I try to find a taxi to go back to the dorm. Then I suddenly heard someone was giggling and I found all my friends were hiding behind a tree and laughing at me!

Edited:

The first time I got very drunk was when I was in college. It was a friend birthday, so we went out to celebrate. After dinner we to a different, quieter restaurant to have drink and play games. We played a lot of games but, I don’t know why, my reaction was very slow, so I lost lot of them and had to drink as a punishment. Suddenly I felt very sleepy because I drank too much. I couldn’t help myself and just fell asleep. I don’t know how long I slept for, but suddenly someone shook my shoulders and I just woke up. I looked around and saw it was the restaurant owner who woke me up and that there was no else at the table. My friends had left me! I felt a little bit scared but the first thing out out of my mouth was “have they paid” and he said “yes”. I was very angry, so I just went out of the restaurant and I tried to find a taxi to go back to the dorm. I suddenly heard someone giggling and I found all my friends hiding behind a tree and laughing at me.

Grammar

Do you do it by your wish? – Do you do it voluntarily / because you want?

Pronunciation

Nuance: /ˈnuː.ɑːns/

Nuanced: /ˈnuː.ɑːnst/

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