F2F Class Notes (Dan) [s/r]

a correspondent = a journalist or reporter is located out of the TV station / newspaper he works for

TV stations will often send correspondents on the site of an air crash or event.

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sophisticated = complicated and smart, ingenious (object)

OR well-educated (person), with an elegant appearance

Listening Practice: 

Listen to a story from the teacher, or listen to the teacher read an article.

Do not read the article yourself!

The teacher should ask you some questions about the details of the article.

Quite simply, most of the people we have seen dragged through the courts are not capable of this kind of incident. 
Dragged through – A slow messy process.
Incident is different to an accident. Incident a specific event occurred

Quote vs Quotation.
When using spoken English the term “Quote” is far more commonly accepted.

The most common use a: “Quote” is to ask for a fair value purchasing price and, “Quotation” is to reproduce a persons words as they had spoken/written them in context.

However “Quote” is actually the informal use of the word “Quotation.” They technically can be used interchangeably (a journalist if asked for a quote will reproduce someones words).

Vocabulary

Outrage – Upset, offensive & angry

Expertise – The application of a high level of skills and knowledge.
Dan is an expert in…
Dan’s expertise is…
It will take an expert to fix…
It takes a special expertise to find a solution…

Undermine – To negatively contribute against the success of something. It can be obvious, accidental or sneakily applied
e.g. The students undermine the teacher best intentions.
e.g. The employee undermined the boss by giving clients a bad view of work conditions.
e.g. The courts undermined the work of the police by not sentencing repeat offenders.

Pronunciation

Expertise – Expert – tease or ek-sper-teez