07/11/2025

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 07/11/2025
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: A Manga Is Causing Earthquake Panic in Japan
Link: https://time.com/7300133/japan-manga-earthquake-panic/
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶ Richter /RIK-ter/
▶ coincided /koh-in-SY-did/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌 manga (noun): Japanese comic books or graphic novels, usually read from right to left and covering many different genres
Example sentence: She spends hours reading her favorite romance manga series.

📌 deter (verb): to stop someone from doing something by making them fear the result or difficulty
Example sentence: The high cost of fines is meant to deter people from littering.

📌 scale back (phrasal verb): to reduce the size, amount, or effort of something
Example sentence: Due to budget cuts, the company had to scale back its marketing campaign.

📌 fall short of (phrasal verb): to fail to reach a goal, expectation, or standard
Example sentence: The movie fell short of my expectations—it wasn’t as exciting as the trailer promised.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: People doesn’t have impact on her word.
✔Better say: People weren’t convinced by her words.

✖You said: It was actually happened in 2011.
✔Better say: It actually happened in 2011.

✖You said: So, people start to trust her writing will really happen.
✔Better say: So, people started to believe that her writing would really come true.
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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: 47,000 ‘winning’ lottery tickets in Norway turn out to be a costly conversion mistake
Link: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3316430/47000-winning-lottery-tickets-norway-turn-out-be-costly-conversion-mistake