F2F Class Notes (Tony)
Homework
Write a creative story and use ALL the vocab. words from this class and last class:
differentiate – distinguish or tell apart people
amnesia – to forget everything (a disease common in old people)
Sugarcoated – to make something sound better then it is (not reality)
Fairy tale – has a happy ending (and they lived happily ever after)
Tale – an old word for a story
overwork (V.) – to work very hard, harder than you should, Work too much
placate – to make someone feel better by giving them something small
overtime (N.) – work that exceeds the time you usually work
wage – money paid for work BY THE HOUR
placate – to make someone feel better by giving them something small
Vocabulary
show – Everything on TV (except for sports events and movies) is a SHOW
eg: I watch all comedy shows. But I never watch dramas.
eg: I don’t like that show, because it’s too dramatic. (ADJ)
overwork (V.) – to work very hard, harder than you should, Work too much
eg: You don’t want to overwork your employees, or they will start to hate their jobs.
overtime (N.) – work that exceeds the time you usually work
eg: He always works overtime but never gets extra salary.
eg: Unofficial overtime should be forbidden by law. Because it exploits the rights of employees.
wage – money paid for work BY THE HOUR
eg: His wage is about 20 yuan per hour. So cheap to hire him.
placate – to make someone feel better by giving them something small
eg: They don’t offer any real solutions, they just placate people with coupons and cinema tickets.
White People!
Slavic (Russian)
Germanic (Germany)
Caucasian (England)
Hispanic (Spain)
Grammar
they do something unrelevant irrelevant to the subject
the ethnicities in this country are only one – These countries usually have only one ethnicity. (Homogeneous)
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