06/09) Amends is Important

Topic: Why Making Amends Is So Important
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-the-wild-things-are/202107/why-making-amends-is-so-important?collection=1175819

Sentence Construction:
X I spent a lot of time to sleep. >> I spent a lot of time sleeping.
X  When I look troll being nasty, I feel sad for them. >> When I see trolls being nasty, I feel sad for them. 
X During succession, the rate of plants species growing up gradually. >> During succession, the rate of plant species grows gradually. 
X If you think it's time for kids writing lesson but they are bouncing off the walls you can change direction. >> If you think it's time for a kids writing lesson but they are bouncing off the walls you can change direction. 
X If we cannot back to the past that situation so it's hard to forgive. >> If we cannot go back and change the past, it would be hard to forgive someone. 
X I try to understand why they did to me. >> I try to understand why they did it to me.

Good Sentences:
O I feel nostalgic. 
O I don't want to do anything. 
O Can he stay clear of troubles to take a turn for the worse?
O Even if you're sitting properly, you should be up and about at least an hour. 
O It's also difficult for me to forgive myself. 

Pronunciation:
* nauseating /naw-zee-ey-ting/
* acrid /ak-rid/
* specified /spes-uh-fahyd/
* impulse /im-puhls/
* equate /ih-kweyt/
* process /proh-ses/
* recipient /ri-sip-ee-uhnt/
* reconciliation /rek-uhn-sil-ee-ey-shuhn/

Build Lexicon: 

* abhorrent := (adj) causing a strong feeling of hate, especially for moral reasons.

• Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society.
• Those who have lost loved ones to violence in our past should not be disrespected and retraumatised by abhorrent behaviour of this nature.

* equate := (v) to think that something is the same as something else or is as important.

• Some parents equate education with exam success.
• This is because relevant experience doesn't always equate to good experience.

* righteous := (adj) morally right and good.

• He considered himself to be holy and righteous in all his ways.
• Some part of me believes that fear around childbirth and illness in infancy is righteous fear.

Discover Idioms & Expressions:

* out of the frying pan into the fire := from a bad or difficult situation to one that is even worse.

• Many kids who try to run away from unhappy homes discover that they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire when they try to live on their own.
• Then, in 1993, he appeared to jump out of the frying pan into the fire, when he and a group of investors bought 15% of Adidas (with an option to buy the rest)—and Mr Louis-Dreyfus became its chief executive.

* get the wrong end of the stick := used to imply that someone has misunderstood a situation.

• The police got the wrong end of the stick when they saw me break open the window of my locked house. I locked myself outside and was nearly arrested!
• It’s simple but effective, and people rarely get the wrong end of the stick that way too!

* to muddy the waters := doing something to make a situation difficult to understand.

• Please don’t muddy the waters by telling me about alternate pronunciations! I can barely remember the word as it is!
• Hysteria makes it easier for the guilty to muddy the waters.