VIP Class Notes (Nick)

Try to describe what you learned from your out-of-body experience.

Vocabulary

Pass on [what] – from teacher to student
e.g. My guru is passing on his knowledge to a close circle of students.
Pass on – to die
e.g. Unfortunately, our grandpa has passed on.
Pass down – lineage, or culture
e.g. This ring has been passed down for four generations in my family.
e.g. This type of art has been passed down between generations in this town.
Pass out – to go to sleep or 晕
e.g. He just sat down to rest for a few minutes, but then he passed out.

Insomnia – inability to fall asleep
Sleep deprivation – when someone is so tired that they begin to have trouble functioning

Elementary – Kindergarten – 5th grade/6th grade
Junior High – 6th/7th – 8th grade
High School – 9th – 12th grades

Chiropractor – the doctor who fixes your spine
Physician – a general term for a doctor

ADD / ADHD – Attention deficit disorder / attention deficit hyper disorder
Hyper – more than something
e.g. Hyperactive – too active
e.g. Hyperextension – moving a joint past 180 degrees
OCD – Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – obsessive is to put too much thought on one thing; compulsive is that you can’t resist doing something – when you have to have everything in a certain order

Pumice – a type of stone used to exfoliate
Loofah – a type of plant that can be used to exfoliate

For God’s sake – used to say that you don’t believe something, or to express surprise
e.g. For God’s sake man! Pull yourself together! Get ahold of yourself!

Prodigious – to have a lot of something, to be very good at something
e.g. He is a prodigious writer (he produces a lot material)
e.g. He is a prodigious violin player.
e.g. Heidi, you are producing vocabulary at a truly prodigious rate! (super fast)

Come up vs. come out – for a topic to be part of the conversation naturally, for some subject to be naturally arrived at in conversation; to be revealed
e.g. When we were talking about our cars, it came up that you recommended the same car to both of us.

Out-of-body experience – the feeling that you are outside of your body, looking at yourself from the outside
e.g. Heidi was so absorbed by the past that she had an out-of-body experience.

Grammar

Just language – just words / sound / noise

My Mom told me that when I was bigger – older

Let me recall my memory – refresh

For sake of students – For the sake of your students / for your student’s sake

Pronunciation

Pumice – pum – iss

Prodigious – pro – di – jiss