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