02/10/2022

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 02/10/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Turkey earthquake: Death toll could increase eight-fold, WHO says
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64533851
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶organization /awr-guh-nuh-zey-shuhn/
▶combing /kohm-ing/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌death toll (noun) - the number of people who die because of an event such as a war or an accident

Example: The day after the explosion the death toll had risen to 90.

📌eight-fold (adjective) - eight times as big or as much

Example: Drug-related crimes jumped eightfold.

📌tremor (noun) - a slight earthquake (= sudden, violent movement of the earth’s surface)

Example: The tremor was felt as far as 200 miles away.

📌epicenter (noun) - the point on the earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake

Example: The Great Nicobar islands lie at the closest point to the epicenter of the earthquake.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: It’s been a long time since I was seeing her last time.
✔Better say: It’s been a long time since I last saw her.

✖You said: During the recovering time, many many people will get through hard time and many people lost their lives as well.
✔Better say: During the recovery period, many people will face difficulties and some will lose their lives. // During the recovery period, many people will face difficulties especially because many people have lost their lives.

✖You said: I don’t have that experience like destroy the building when earthquake happened.
✔Better say: I haven’t experienced a strong earthquake where buildings get destroyed. // I haven’t experienced a strong earthquake that resulted in the destruction of buildings.

✖You said: Earthquake happened very much in Japan.
✔Better say: Japan experiences many/ a lot of earthquakes.
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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: Article English
Title: Data Shows Thousands of Languages May Soon Be Extinct
Link: https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/app/daily-news/article/data-shows-thousands-of-languages-may-soon-be-extinct/bZY2arR3EeyotB_K_mQ-sA

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