Online Class Notes (Jesse)

he might yet have to send his people back to school, not just to study how an empire fell apart, but how not to put it back together again.

Vocabulary

complacent (not careful enough, laid back when you shouldn’t be) and conservative 

risk averse 

it’s not value for money – it’s not worth buying for that amount of money
it’s not worth taking your computer when fleeing a war

far fetched – very hard to imagine / hard to believe

inconceivable – impossible

famine – when lots of people are starving
starved to death

Grammar

there have 2 groups of people – there are

they trying to – they try to / they are trying to

the China was very poor

Pronunciation

with – your mouth is like an “o”

asylum – “a sai lum”

nuclear