F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

Siren – type of noise, loud high and low

eg: Was it a real siren or a toy siren?

jing bao sheng – siren

diao che – Crane, He 鶴 also, a tall skinny bird that stands in the water

a kind of vehicle that helps someone to construct a building, it can go up and down and pick up heavy things.

vehicle – a car is a kind of vehicle

firearm – a gun is a kind of firearm

metaphor – saying one thing is another thing

In English if you call someone a chicken, that means they are afraid of many things, maybe will run away easily.

Chicken is a metaphor for a coward.

Under the weather – sick or don’t feel well

A house of cards – an unstable and easily broken thing

crooked – not straight

Katie’s plan to get into college was a house of cards on a crooked table.

David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.