08/08/2022

💎Student's Name: Soojeong Yeom
💎Date: 08/08/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Netflix is not in deep trouble. It's becoming a media company
Website: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/07/media/netflix-wall-street/index.html
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶acronym /ak-ruh-nim/
▶tentacle / ten-tuh-kuhl/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌no wonder (idiom) - it is not surprising

Example: No wonder the children are excited - this is the first time they've been abroad.

📌tumble (verb) - to fall a lot in value in a short time

Example: Share prices tumbled yesterday.

📌downward spiral (noun) - a situation in which a price, etc. becomes lower, or a situation gets worse and is difficult to control because one bad event causes another

Example: We have to avoid the downward spiral in which unemployment leads to homelessness and then to crime.

📌on (a) par (noun) - at the same level or standard as (someone or something else)

Example: His new book is on par with his best sellers.

📌tentacle (noun) - the influence or effect that something has on other people or things

Example: The company's tentacles spread from car manufacturing to railways.

📌live up to something (noun) - to be as good as something

Example: The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: One of the member on the weekend, she got covid test and she got confirmed.
✔Better say: One of the members I met last Saturday/weekend tested positive for covid.

✖You said: Maybe yesterday or today morning.
✔Better say: Maybe yesterday or this morning.

✖You said: I am not a member (of Netflix).
✔Better say: I am not subscribed to Netflix.

✖You said: I paid for something to other site and they gave the ticket for TVing.
✔Better say: I paid something for another site and a TVing subscription came along with it.

✖You said: I don’t spend that much time to watch movie or drama.
✔Better say: I don’t spend much time watching movies or dramas.
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🔴 Homework:
Please prepare for our next class.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Lifestyles - Dialog Question #2 (page 11)