F2F Class Notes 20th June (Harmony) ***

Next Class:  Review the article and make more examples for the new vocab.

Review:

Neck/Shoulders/Upper back/ mid back/ lower back

Pulse:  your heartbeat (you can feel it on your neck and on your wrists.)

Acupuncture:  TCM, uses small needles to increase blood flow and heal you.

Metabolism 新陈代谢  (meh – tah – bowl – ism):  the rate you digest food.

Eg.  My body’s metabolism is very slow.

Tire/tired/tiring (verb):

Eg.  Babysitting young children will tire you out.  (future)

Eg.  Babysitting young children will tire you.

Eg.  I babysat last night so I am tired. (past)

Eg.  The babysitting was tiring.  (past)

Eg.  I am babysitting and it’s tiring. (present)

Tired (adj):  to describe sth that is tired.

Eg.  The tired man fell asleep in his chair.

Eg.  I am tired.

Eg.  Last night I couldn’t sleep so I’m tired now.

She was tiring = she made me tired

She is tiring = she makes me tired

Eg.  A person that you don’t get along with/someone that is difficult to work with.

I have a co-worker that never agrees with anything I say.  She is very tiring to work with.

I had to work with sally today and it was tiring. 

She is tired = she IS tired (not you)

Getting a massage will make you tired/ is very tiring.

Reading:

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1602/160218-the-future.html

Might (mite)

Skyscrapers (sky – scrape – ers):  a really tall building.  (scrapes/touches the sky)

Holidays (hall – ih – days)

Asked (asskd)

Architecture (ar – kih – teck – chur):  building/ bridges etc. design.

Architect:  a person who creates architecture.

Daily (day – lee)

Bubble:  a pocket of air, like blowing bubbles.

Virtual – Get the V (verr – chu – ul)

Advanced ( add – VanceD)

Recipe (reh – sih – pee):  a list of ingredients nad instructions on how to make a certain food dish.

Eg.  I got this new recipe online for chocolate cake, I will try to make it tonight.

earTH

resourCES

capsule:  a small case, or covering. (usually round and can be closed)

Eg.  Medicine capsule/ space capsule.

Predict/predictions:  to guess something about the future.

Questioned = question/ asking a question

Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most likely to happen in the future   = The researched asked 2000 adults about their predictions that they thought would be most likely in the future.