Vip Class Notes 28th April (Tony)

Vocabulary

Thousands

1,000

10,000

22,000

99,000

126,000

999,000

Millions

23,000,000 twenty three million

25,526,000    twenty five million 526 thousand

25.5 million     twenty five point five million

1.3 BN billion

Hundreds

2,300 twenty three hundred

9,800 ninety eight hundred

Anthropology – study of humans

eg: Anthropology findings show that humans migrated across long distances in the past.

Dynamic – always changing  or active.

eg: Language is so dynamic that people have claimed it is in fact alive.

Anthropomorphize – when you apply human characteristics to animals

eg: Anthropomorphized characters are extremely popular in cartoons.

enigmatic – full of mystery and difficult to understand

eg: Chinese language and grammar can be very enigmatic.

bite the bullet – to just get sth over with, deal with the thing you don’t wanna deal with.

eg: I’m just gonna bite the bullet and tell her I wanna break up.