F2F Class Notes 17th July (Peter)

Corrections

(Original – corrected)

I’m a hurry up to here because I have a little later – I was hurrying to get here because I’m a little late

I get you means – I get/see what you mean

Vocabulary

Diplomacy – the act of negotiating between countries as an alternative to aggressive means

Diplomat – someone who works on negotiations between countries

Compact – portable, easy to carry

Capital/Uppercase Letters – CAPITAL LETTERS (the larger letters)

Lowercase Letters – lowercase letters (the smaller letters)

Islander – someone from an island

Refund – money given back to someone who no longer wants what they bought

Ex. I took the broken computer back to the store and they gave me a refund.

Pronunciation

Pronunciation (pro-none-see-AYE-shin)

Diplomacy (dih-PLOE-muh-see)
Palestine (PAA-luh-styne)

Portable (POOR-tuh-bull)

Compact (com-PACT)

Island (EYE-lind)

Islander (EYE-lind-durr)

Perfect (adjective: PURR-fict, verb: purr-FECT)

Address (noun: ADD-ress/uh-DRESS, verb: uh-DRESS)*

*Note: to stay safe, always pronounce it uh-DRESS

Present (noun/adjective: PREH-zint, verb: prih-ZENT)

Progress (noun: PRAW-gress, verb: pruh-GRESS)

Project (noun: PRAW-ject, verb: pruh-JECT)*

*Note: the verb project means to throw forward, but it only used to refer to two things: images and voices. When people project an image, they enlarge it so that a large crowd can see; when people project their voice, the speak loudly so that a large crowd can hear.

Entrance (noun: EN-trince, verb: in-TRANCE)*

*Note: the noun entrance simply means 入口 but the verb entrance means to means to put something into a state of distracted fascination (出神).

Ex. The boy was entranced by the girl’s beauty.

Original:

Last night, I saw a video that record a girl who escape from area controlled by Isis. At first she accepted the interview with smile. And then, she started to cry when she said that she had lost her father. I thought it was so sad that I couldn’t see it any more when the first said she even hadn’t had a name. It’s a unbelievable in the world. Here is a civilized peaceful world we have and there is a hell people are living. Iraq was a stable country, at least there are no war before American troops launched attack. If it isn’t happened, the girl may have a happy life as normal people we have. In that case, we should avoid war as possible as we can when we have some issues about economy, military, and territory and we should go back on the table to negotiate.

Edited: Last night, I saw a video of a girl who escaped from an area controlled by Isis. At first, she accepted the interview with a smile. And then, she started to cry when she said that she had lost her father. I thought it was so sad that I couldn’t watch it any more when she said she even hadn’t had a name. It’s unbelievable that this exists in the world. Here is a civilized, peaceful world we have and at the same time there is a hell some people are living in. Iraq was a stable country, at least there are no war before American troops launched attacks. If it hadn’t happened, the girl may have had a happy life as we normal people have. In that case, we should avoid war when/if possible as we can when we have some issues about the economy, military, or territories and we should go back on the table to negotiate.