Online Class Notes (Joe)

We talked about retirement plans and your current job. We practiced using adjectives and learned about the difference between ‘even if’ and ‘even though’. One very important distinction we made was the difference between ‘mental problems’ and ‘psychological problems’.

Grammar

We plan to open a lawyer firm
We plan to open a law firm

We can choose how many works we want to do
We can choose how much work we want to do

We want to solve some problems about family and marriage (OK)
We want to solve some familial and marital problems (better)

If I have 10 million, I can raise myself without work
If I had 10 million, I could support myself without work

He or she marriage
His or her marriage

Even though I’m not old, I would retire
Even if I was not old, I would retire

I have many spare time to learn something new
I have much spare time to learn something new

The project which I in charge has no progress
We’ve made no progress with the project which I am in charge of

Vocabulary

Marital (adj) – of marriage
Marital problems lead to divorce

Familial (adj) – of family
Familail homes are sold to pay debt

Retirement (adj/noun) – of retire
I look forward to retirement
Retirement plans are important

Relate (verb) – to identify a connection with someone
I can relate to that character because she has the same interests as I do

lead (noun) – the main character
She was the female lead in the movie

Pronunciation

Various /ˈvɛːrɪəs/

main /meɪn/

mean /miːn/