F2F Class Notes 5th December (Selma)

Vocabulary

to swap (v) – to exchange

e.g. to swap money for hugs

to coax (v) – to persuade in a very gentle and friendly way

e.g. The police is trying to coax elderly to swap their motors with noodles.

a scheme (n) – a plan

e.g. Under a scheme launched last week, elders were to surrender their driver’s licences.

a prefecture (n) – an office, or a department

e.g. A Japanese prefecture is making elders surrender their driver’s licences.

to surrender (v) – to give up in a sense that you stop fighting, but the second meaning is that you simply give up a possession

e.g. The army of France surrendered under Russian forces.

e.g. They had to surrender their licences.

a toll booth (n) – a place where you pay the toll/fee for using the highway

e.g. Everyone has to pay at the toll booth.

an interchange (n) – 

(1) a place where several roads connect

e.g. People oftentimes get confused about who gets to go through first at the interchange.

(2) people’s communication and the way it is being conducted (heated, fiery, slow, etc)

e.g. Lily and Mark’s interchange was very heated.

to interchange (v) – to change place mutually

e.g. Selma interchanged her cup and Swift’s.

to be entitled to (v) – to have a right to something

e.g. Older drivers were entitled to a discount.

to hand in (v) – to surrender and object

e.g. They had to hand in their licences first.

a chemist (n) – a person who works in a pharmacy (British English)

e.g. They were entitled to discounts at the chemists’

a concession (v) – an act of giving somebody a right to something

e.g. Japanese concession of giving elders a right to discounts was a huge success!

e.g. The American concession of giving black people voting rights was considered controversial at that time.

dementia –  a condition which affects elders and makes them confused about what is real

e.g. Dementia is one of the worst conditions.

to be revoked (v) – getting cancelled or taken away by the issuing authority

e.g. Licences are revoked by the police department.

money exchange = conversion 

a handful of something (expression) – it means that whatever amount it is, it can fit in the palm of one hand or on the number of fingers of one hand

e.g. Swift has only been to a hanful of Japanese cities.