Online Class Notes (Samara)[S]

Go over pronunciation and examples for vocabulary.

Vocabulary

Plug: the part of the charger that goes into the wall.
Connect:  to attach.
Link to: to attach, to associate with.
the cord links the phone to the wall piece of the charger.
Cars: the individual containers for trains.
Route: The direction, the way, the sequence.
Good: the quality is high
enough: amount, volume, acceptable
Outdated: It was good or popular before but it is not enough currently.
ex: The milk is outdated
ex: Mariah Carey is outdated.

Pronunciation

wire: Why / er
Client: Cl / eye /ent
Economy: e / CON / o / my
Subway: SUB / way
Outdated: out / DATE / ed ;
From: fr / um

Everyday when I go to work the subway train is always very very crowded, full of people, but the reason for this problem, part of the reason or the problem is there is too many. The population is very high in Shanghai right now and another problem is the reasonability of the subway design. For example I take like number 6 to work, the design for this line is not reasonable. Cannot meet the requirement of the peoples transportation for the neighborhood alongside the line. the train is too short, which only contains 4 containers but there are a lot of different neighborhoods aside the line. It cannot be changed, because there are 20 stops along the route it’s a very big project if you want to make more cars in the train. you need to change the train and also the station. The CBD in Shanghai are concentration on lujiazui and other that are farther away from line 6.

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Everyday when I go to work, the subway train is always very very crowded, full of people, but the reason for this problem, part of the reason for the problem is the large population in Shanghai right now the reasonability of the subway design. For example I take line number 6 to work, but the design for this line is not reasonable / good / enough / outdated. It cannot meet the requirement of the riders from the neighborhood alongside the line. The train is too short, which only contains 4 cars but there are a lot of different neighborhoods aside / beside / near / around the line. It cannot be changed, because there are 20 stops along the route it’s a very big project if you want to add more cars to train. You need to change the not only the train, but also the station. The CBD in Shanghai are concentrating on Lujiazui and other areas in Puxi that are farther away from line 6.

Grammar

Concentrate on: to think about
ex: I prefer to concentrate on my arms when I am at the gym on Wednesdays.
don’t concentrate: do not think about
ex: Don’t concentrate on your failures so much.
focus on: look at, pay attention to, think about
ex: focus on the challenge that’s ahed.
ex: if you want to shoot the arrow focus on the red center.
keep your mind off: don’t think about
ex: I am trying to keep my mind off of this silly dream I had, but I can’t.