02/22/2023

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 02/22/2023
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Opinion Samples #2 (page 34)
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶command /kuh-MAND/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌prey on something (phrasal verb) - to hurt or deceive a group of people, especially people who are weak or can easily be hurt or deceived

Example: He would attack at night, preying on lone women in their twenties or thirties.

📌claim (verb) - to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might not believe it

Example: The company claims (that) it is not responsible for the pollution in the river.

📌run the risk (idiom) - to be or do something that may result in (something bad or unpleasant happening)

Example: If you tell him the truth, you run the risk of hurting his feelings.

📌malady (noun) - a disease

Example: Two times in her life, she was miraculously cured of serious maladies.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: I think still there should be people who I watched on TV long time ago. There was a parent of young girl and she was very sick. Her stomach was filled with something so her stomach was very round. We don’t know what is happening in her body. But her parents didn’t want to take their daughter to see doctor because they believe their religious God will cure their daughter.
✔Better say: I think there are still those kinds of people who I saw on TV a long time ago. There was a young girl who was very sick. Her stomach was filled with something that made her stomach very round. We didn’t know what was happening in her body. Her parents refused to take her to a doctor because they believed that their God would cure her.

✖You said:  There should be quack.
✔Better say: There are still quacks (out there). // Quacks still exist.
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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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Course: Free Talking
Topic: Change