F2F Class Notes (Nick)

Give a running account of your sleep marathon, and what you do in the inevitable waking hours.

Vocabulary

Stress – the longest, loudest, and highest part of a word, one syllable 重音

Turtle – an animal that contracts, or retreats into its shell when scared 乌龟

Contract – (when the stress is on the second part) to get smaller
e.g. After the blowfish is not in danger anymore, it contracts back to normal size.
e.g. This spring, economists expect the economy to contract because of the trade war.

Model – a different design of the same thing
e.g. There are different models of trains, some that have doors, and some that don’t.

Rack – a flat place, like a shelf, for putting luggage; a place for hanging clothes
e.g. Sunny doesn’t putting her luggage on any train racks, unless it’s on the other side where she can keep a close eye on it.

Manual, Automatic – three pedals or two

Stall – when a car is not getting enough gas and turns off automatically 熄火

Inevitable – something you can’t avoid

Grammar

I was took that train alone – took
— One time in the past
— No need for double past tense

There were none left

Pronunciation

Check out these pronunciation pairs:

http://yoursecondlanguage.com/english/english.nouns.verbs.accented.shtml