07/07

Student: Sinclair Ahn 
Topic: The Unexpected Value of Boredom for Well-Being and Creativity
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/tracking-wonder/202206/the-unexpected-value-boredom-well-being-and-creativity
 
Sentence Construction:
X The weather is too hot and suddenly rain, rain. >> The weather is too hot and it suddenly rains.
X  I cannot endure weather. >>   I cannot endure the weather.
X She is beloved by a largest swathe of the American public. >> She is beloved by a large swathe of the American public.
⁸X It hard to physical work everyday of the year come rain or shine. >> It is hard to do physical work everyday of the year come rain or shine.
X In the past, I wonder when I'm took in the subway people only focus on their mobile phone. >> In the past, I wonder when I took the subway people only focused on their mobile phone.

Good Sentences:
O Rice crisis has also risen on fear of drought in India.
O Her death in a car accident in 1997 was followed by unprecedented expressions of public mourning.
O She was extremely sick but we were waiting for a raindrop in a drought.
O It is very hard to do nothing when I feel bored.

Pronunciation:
* embrace /em-breys/
* toddlers /tod-ler
* intuitive /in-too-i-tiv/
* envisioning /en-vizh-uhn/
* space / speys/
* positive /poz-i-tiv/
* hypothesized /hahy-poth-uh-sahyzt/
* issue /ish-oo/
* enraged /en-reyjt/
* fertile /fur-tl/

Build Lexicon:
* shun := (v.) to avoid somebody/something. 

• They were both shunned by their families when they remarried.
• Plenty may shun it if you loudly espouse dogma they find disagreeable.

* sap := (v.) to make something/somebody weaker; to destroy something gradually.

• Years of failure have sapped his confidence.
• The hot sun sapped our energy.

* vanish := (v.) to disappear suddenly and/or in a way that you cannot explain.

• He vanished without trace.
• If we want Covid-19 to vanish, Donald Trump must vanish too.

Discover Idioms & Expressions:
* be bored out of (one's) skull := to be extremely bored (of or by someone or something), to the point of distraction, frustration, or irritation.

• We thought a week in a secluded cabin with no TV or Internet would make for some great family bonding, but we were all bored out of our skulls after a couple of days.
• I was bored out of my skull listening to that lecture this afternoon.

* a mind of your own := you are capable of forming an opinion and making decisions without being influenced by others.

The boy doesn't need any advice; he's got a mind of his own.

I can't get the camera to work right. It seems to have a mind of its own.

 

 

 

* think outside the box := a person who thinks on their feet is capable of adjusting rapidly to new developments and making quick decisions.

• Our competitors are more creative than us - they really think outside the box!
• Think outside the box when planning a vacation using your credit card travel rewards.