10/24/2022

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 10/24/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Air travel controversy: Passengers who recline their seats on flights are seen as 'rude'
Website: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/air-travel-controversy-passengers-recline-seats-flights-rude
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶abrupt /uh-bruhpt/
▶controversy /kon-truh-vur-see/
▶vehement /vee-uh-muhnt/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌abrupt (adjective) - sudden and unexpected, and often unpleasant

Example: There was an abrupt change in her mood.

📌recline (verb) - If you recline a chair, you change the position of its back so that it is in a leaning position.

Example: The bus has air conditioning and seats that recline/reclining seats.

📌controversy (noun) - a lot of disagreement or argument about something, usually because it affects or is important to many people

Example: The policy has caused fierce/heated controversy ever since it was introduced.

📌amid (preposition) - in the middle of or surrounded by

Example: It was hard to hear amid all the cheering.

📌vehement (adjective) - expressing very strong feelings, or showing great energy or force

Example: Despite vehement opposition from his family, he quit school and became an actor.

📌weigh in (phrasal verb) - to give an opinion or enter a discussion or argument

Example: Several leading architects weighed in with criticisms regarding the design of the new museum.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: She was living very happy. But when her parents broke up, her life goes sad.
✔Better say: She was living very happily / She was living a happy life. But when her parents broke up, her life became miserable / her life turned upside down.

✖You said: If the angle of reclining is too big then the person behind will be uncomfortable.
✔Better say: If the seat is fully reclined then the person behind will be/feel uncomfortable.
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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: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Issue 02 Good Habits and Bad - Express Yourself  #8 (page 21)