Open F2F Class Notes 5th March (Tony)

Vocabulary

ni de mama juede ni leng – my mother thinks it’s cold

figurative – used with a meaning that is different from the basic meaning and that expresses an idea in an interesting way by using language that usually describes something else : not literal

literal – original meaning, in the dictionary

eg: “The literal meaning of cool, is not hot but not cold, in the middle.”

Temperature or (Personality)

Hot      (get angry easily)   “He’s hot-headed. He has a hot temper.”

Cool     ( relaxed, easy going, interesting) “That’s a cool sweater.”

Cold     (have no emotions, no reaction to things)   “Tim is a cold person, no one likes to work with him.”

Original –

One day, there is a chalkboard stood in the middle of New York city .A girl wrote four big words on the blackboard” Write your biggest regret “and then quietly leave.People in a hurry to depart, Seeing this sudden appearance of the blackboard.They don’t know what this is all about until one girl wrote one sentence,it goes”Not getting my MBA”.At the same time, more and more people joined it and more and more words appeared on chalkboard. Like”Never going after my dreams””Not say’I love you'”Not following my artistic passions””Staying in my comfort zone”…etc.

Correction –

One day, there was a chalkboard standing in the middle of New York city. A girl wrote four big words on the board ” Write your biggest regret “and then quietly left. People in a hurry on the street noticed this sudden appearance of the blackboard. They didn’t know what it was all about until one girl wrote a sentence, “Not getting my MBA”. When she did that, more and more people joined and many words appeared on the chalkboard. Like “Never going after my dreams” “Not saying I love you” “Not following my artistic passions” “Staying in my comfort zone.” The chalkboard idea became popular once people knew what it was about.