10/30/2023

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 10/30/2023
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: 82-year-old Korean man has heart attack after choking on ‘live octopus’ dish
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/25/asia/south-korea-sannakji-octopus-intl-hnk/index.html
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌Allegedly (adverb): Used to indicate that something is claimed to be true, often when there is a lack of concrete evidence or when the accuracy of the claim is in question.

Example sentence: The suspect allegedly stole the valuable artwork from the museum, but there was no clear proof of the theft.

📌Asphyxiating (adjective/verb): The act of causing someone or something to suffer from a lack of oxygen, leading to difficulty in breathing or even suffocation.

Example sentence: The thick smoke in the building was asphyxiating, making it hard for people to breathe and escape the fire.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: I became adjust to it.
✔Better say:  I adjusted to it. // I became accustomed to it.

✖You said: 82-year-old man in South Korea have a raw dish called san-nakji which is served in fresh, live octopus killed right before serving and chopping so it's tentacles still moving when it is served. But the fire official didn't say whether the man was survived.
✔Better say: An 82-year-old man in South Korea choked on a raw octopus dish called san-nakji, which is served fresh, with the tentacles still squirming/moving after being chopped. But the fire official didn't say whether the man survived.

✖You said: His throat was choking by moving tentacle so it caused asphyxiating.
✔Better say: His throat was obstructed by a moving tentacle, leading to asphyxiation. // A tentacle was stuck in his throat causing him to suffocate. // A tentacle lodged in his throat, suffocating him.

✖You said:  I heard this accident time to time.
✔Better say:  I hear about this incident from time to time. // I used to hear about this incident from time to time. // This incident would come up from time to time.

✖You said: My father’s generation much more like san-nakji than my generation.
✔Better say: My father’s generation likes (eating) san-nakji more than my generation. // My father's generation prefers san-nakji to my generation.
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🔴 Homework:
Please take note of what you learned in this lesson and apply it in your future conversations.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Comprehension Question #3 (page 81)