04/09/2025

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 04/09/2025
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Opinion Samples 1 (page 118)
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶ hoax /HOHKS/
▶ spinach /SPIN-ich/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌 Hoax (noun): A trick or deception, often to mislead people.
Example sentence: "The news report turned out to be a hoax, and many people were fooled."

📌 Comply (verb): To obey or follow rules, requests, or instructions.
Example sentence: "You must comply with the school’s dress code."

📌 Markup (noun): The difference between the cost of a product and its selling price, or the amount added to the cost.
Example sentence: "The store added a 20% markup to the cost of the item."

📌 Margin (financial) (noun): The difference between the cost of producing or purchasing something and its selling price.
Example sentence: "The store increased its profit margin by selling products at higher prices."
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: In the lunchtime, we go for a walk.
✔Better say: At lunchtime, we went for a walk.

✖You said: When organic farmers grow vegetables, I agree there should be difficulty.

✔Better say: I agree that growing organic vegetables can be challenging for farmers

✖You said: In a nutrition-wise, there would be difference between chemical way.
✔Better say: In terms of nutrition, there is a difference between organic and chemically grown vegetables. (or) Nutrition-wise, there are differences between organic and conventional vegetables.

✖You said: I don't feel hungry that much.
✔Better say: I don't feel that hungry.
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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: Recent News