F2F Class Notes 31 May (Peter)

Vocabulary

Homesick

Meaning: To miss home

Noun form: Homesickness

Ex. Living in China makes me very homesick.

Chaos

Meaning: confusion

Ex. In the metro station, there is always so much chaos (the metro station is           chaotic).

Language Barrier

Meaning: the difficulty of learning a new language, not being able to communicate

The phrase “If you can’t beat them, join them.”

Meaning: If you can’t change anything, join in.

Ex. People in the metro station are always running; since you can’t stop them, you should run, too.

Driving around, walking around

Meaning: driving or walking with no specific destination.

Ex. The lost child was walking around when I found him.

Grammar

Placement of adverbs

Ex. I can clearly see the sign OR I can see the sign clearly.

Pronunciation

That– remember to create a wide “a” sound, like in apple.

Ourselves (our-selvz)

Some (sum)

Heroic (hi-row-ick)

Heroes (he-roz)

World – remember to pronounce the “L”

Entrepreneur (on-truh-pre-noor)

Patriotism – remember that the emphasis is on the “a” (pay-tree-uh-tizm)

Heal (heel)

Sufficient – remember that the emphasis is on the “fi” in Sufficient (suh-fish-ant)

Problems – remember to pronounce the “L”

Oath – remember the “th” is like think or thought.

Article

It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

So with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes — they just don’t know where to look. You can see heroes every day going in and out of factory gates. Others, a handful in number, produce enough food to feed all of us and then the world beyond. You meet heroes across a counter — and they’re on both sides of that counter. There are entrepreneurs with faith in themselves and faith in an idea who create new jobs, new wealth and opportunity.

There are individuals and families whose taxes support the Government and whose voluntary gifts support church, charity, culture, art, and education. Their patriotism is quiet but deep. Their values sustain our national life.

Now I have used the words “they” and “their” in speaking of these heroes. I could say “you” and “your” because I’m addressing the heroes of whom I speak — you, the citizens of this blessed land. Your dreams, your hopes, your goals are going to be the dreams, the hopes, and the goals of this Administration, so help me God.

We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your make-up. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen — and loving them reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they’re sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory? Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic “Yes.” To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I’ve just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.*

Structures

*I did not (positive action) to (negative phrase) OR I did not (positive action) just to (negative phrase).

Ex. I did not go to college just to lose my job (I went to college to find a job).

Ex. I did not become president to watch our country fall (I became president to help our country.

Ex. I did not take my oath just to watch our economy fall (I took my oath to strengthen our economy)