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Week3

Day16

Battered, soaked and flooded; the Philippines is being hit by its second typhoon in a week.

Grammer

  1. battered: it means constantly hit
  2. soaked: it means completely wet with water, rain actually
  3. the Philippine: we always keep 'the' here before "Philippine", cause there are many islands, and all of these islands together make the country. (like the United States)

Rule

  1. connect sound
    • battered: 'red', kind of a quick short 'd'
    • soaked: 'ked', kind of 't'
    • flooded: 'ded', prononce 'd' (the end 'd' can be neglected)
    • second typhoon in a week
      • secon(d)+typhoon
      • typhoon+in+a

Day17

A few years ago they were thought to be useless---past their prime---not now.

Grammer

  1. in your prime: the best and most productive years of your life

Day18

If you are breathing, it is not too late. Get up and get going.

Grammer

Rule

  • "it is", emphasis when don't connect

  • get up == getup

  • and get == an(d) + get

Day19

A 67-year-old grandpa, has been found alive after being stuck for 6 days at the bottom of a ravine.

Grammer

  • stuck:

    • You are stuck in meetings in Monday.
    • You are stuck in heavy rain.

  • ravine: a place between two mountain.沟壑

Rule

  • 67-year-old: seven-year==> "y" is cancelled.

  • grandpa == gran(d)pa

  • been, sounds like "ben" in American English

  • for, read quickly, sound like "fur"

  • at the bottom of a == at+(t)he+bottom+of+a

Day20

Saturday, an ultrailight plane crashed into a Ferris wheel at a rural festival in Australia, yet somehow no one on the amusement ride nor the plane was hurt.

Grammer

  • ultrailight plane: very small plane
  • Ferris wheel: 🎡
  • rural: the opposite of urban(with big downtown and party)
  • somehow: means like magically
  • amusement ride: no one on the Ferris wheel
  • nor: also

Rule

Day21

Heidi won the world over with her forever cute cross-eyes but slightly confused look.

Grammer

  • won the world over: I won the world over my English lessons.
    • Heidi won the world over with her cute look.

Rule

  • won sounds like 'one', so you have to know the expression(won the world over)
  • with her == with+(h)er, 'h' is cancelled
  • confused look == confuse(d)+look, 'd' is cancelled

Day22

The project to put them online is expected to be completed by 2016.

Grammer

  • expected: anticipated, means thought to be

Rule

  • 2016: usually read as twenty-sixteen.(two thousand sixteen is ok)
  • 2001: usually read as two hundred and one
  • 716: seven-sixteen