Online Class Notes (Tibo) [R]
Today we focused on:
understand the construction of the following sentence:
“Tesla CEO Elon Musk reveals the company’s new electric pick up truck on Thursday , Nov 21.
A demonstration of the cybertruck’s supposedly unbreakable windows backfired, however, when a metal ball thrown at the windows did, in fact, break them.”
Vocabulary
to reveal : when you give to the public information that previously before a secret
Snowden revealed that the CIA was spying on many citizens.
Apple revealed the iPhone 11 last month.
to backfire : you do something thinking it would be good for you but what happens is bad for you.
I decided to buy a house to be closer to my job but I was fired from my job a few months after that. The decision to buy a house backfired.
Grammar
I like coffee (neutral)
I do like coffee (people thought you didn’t like coffee so you tell they were wrong and that you actually like it).
the demo backfired when a metal ball broke the windows
The demo of the car’s unbreakable window backfired when a metal ball actually broke the windows
The demo backfired when a problem happened in the process
The demo (of the new car’s supposedly unbreakable windows) backfired when a problem happened in the process
The demo (of the new car’s supposedly unbreakable windows) backfired, however, when a problem happened in the process (and the windows did break.)
when a metal ball thrown at the windows broke them -> when a metal ball thrown at the windows did break them
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