07/01/2022

💎Student's Name: Soojeon Yeom
💎Date: 07/01/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Website: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-packages-shrinking-shrinkflation-2022/
Topic: Smaller boxes in the cereal aisle? Say hello to shrinkflation.
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶ proliferate /pruh-lif-uh-reyt/
▶ accelerate /ak-sel-uh-reyt/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌 shrinkflation (noun) - the situation when the price of a product stays the same but its size gets smaller

Example: Shrinkflation is a cunning way of raising prices without actually raising the price of the product you are buying.

📌 proliferate (verb) - to quickly increase in number or amount

Example: After the monsoon rains, insects of all kinds begin to proliferate.

📌grapple (verb) - to fight, especially in order to win something

Example: The children grappled for the ball.

📌resurface (verb) -to appear again after not being seen or heard

Example: The tax issue is likely to resurface next year.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: Prices of necessary products for daily life is going up.
✔Better say: Prices of basic commodities are going up.

✖You said: I don’t use money that much on my wearing clothes.
✔Better say: I don’t use that much money on material things / I don’t use that much money on clothes.

✖You said: I have a little bit worries what I have to do next week.
✔Better say: I am a little worried about what I have to do next week.

✖You said: They make price higher but quantity lesser.
✔You can also say: They increase the price but decrease the quantity / They make the prices higher but the quantity lower.
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🔴 Homework:
Please prepare for our next class.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Article English
Website:www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/03/record-28-countries-rated-very-bad-in-press-freedom-index
Topic: Record 28 countries rated ‘very bad’ in press freedom index
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WEEKLY REPORT
As always, you are very participative during our lessons and display enthusiasm when responding to questions. When you encounter a new word, you use it in your sentences when you find an opportunity. Keep doing this so you can continue to build your vocabulary. Looking forward to more engaging conversations with you in the coming week!