F2F Class Notes (Tony)
Vocabulary
psychosomatic stomachache
I took a helicopter to get there
I really like that show
it made me want to…. go there, try it
they have some notebooks catalogs on computers that you can browse, so you can check out the products.
it’s way warmer/bigger
it’s much bigger/warmer
fault line – a place where earthquakes often happen, because tectonic plates meet there.
eg: The city is really beautiful but it’s on a fault line.
converge – come together
eg: These lanes are converging, so you need to merge into traffic when you get a safe chance.
diverge – move apart
eg: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, …. and I chose the one less traveled.
merger – when two companies become one new company
eg: They were not happy with the merger, because they had to lay off 70% of the staff.
acquisition – when a company buys or acquires another company
eg: The biggest acquisition in USA recently was Amazon buying Whole Foods.
Pronunciation
Mediterranean – Meduh Ter Rain Nee Yun the eastern Mediterranean
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