Open F2F Class Notes 4th September (Peter)

Corrections

(Original – corrected)

Vocabulary

Stutter – to be unable to finish a word or sentence

Perfect – verb, to make perfect

Ex. I practice English every day in order to perfect my grammar. (This “perfect” is a verb and is pronounced purr-FECT)

Process – the way that something is done

Ex. The process of learning a language can take years.

Progress – advancement, movement forward

Ex. After years of practice, you will progress in the process of learning a language.

Palestine – a small country that borders Israel (以色列), Egypt, and Jordan (约旦), 巴勒斯坦

Resuscitate – to medically bring back to life

Grammar

A part of speech is a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.

Pronunciation

Perfect (adjective: PURR-fict, verb: purr-FECT)

Progress* (noun: PRAW-gress, verb: pruh-GRESS)

*Note: the verb progress simply means to move forward.

Ex. The last place runner progressed quickly in the race and ended up winning.

Entrance* (noun: EN-trince, verb: en-TRANCE)

*Note: the noun entrance simply means 入口 but the verb entrance means to means to put something into a state of distracted fascination (出神).

Ex. The boy was entranced by the girl’s beauty.

Egypt (EE-gipt)

Israel (IZ-ree-ull)

Resuscitate (rih-SUSS-it-ate)

Original:

I got the information from WeChat moments this morning that a sophomore of Tongji University suddenly died after military training. The report says he had been to Yunnan for supporting education and came back not long time ago. These past few days, he kept staying up and didn’t take a good rest. When all the students were queuing up for their breakfasts, he fell in a faint suddenly, but after a short while, he waked up. So all the people supposed that it was not a big deal of him. However unfortunately the boy was found fainted again in the evening. After full code, he eventually still passed away. This report attempts to tell us the importance of rest. But I think there is many possible reasons to make this tragedy happened.

Edited:

I got the information from WeChat moments this morning that a sophomore at Tongji University suddenly died after military training. The report says he had been to Yunnan as a volunteer and came back not so long ago. These past few days, he kept staying up and didn’t rest well. When all the students were queuing up for their breakfasts, he fainted suddenly, but after a short while, he woke up. So all the people supposed that it was not a big deal. However, unfortunately the boy was found unconscious again in the evening. After being resuscitated, he eventually still passed away. This report attempts to tell us the importance of rest, but I think there are many possible reasons that this tragedy happened.