[모임공지] Aug, 10th. 2014 Sunday Morning 1st meeting and Topic

[Gerrard]

안녕하세요 새롭게 일요일 오전 초중급반 리더를 맡게된 Gerrard 입니다.

4년동안 스터디를 잘 이끌어 준 nixon이 유지해준 반인데 리더를 구하지 못한다고 하셔서

부족한 제가 Leader가 되게 되었습니다.

아무래도 4년동안 잘 이끌어주신 리더가 자리를 비우셔서

제가 리더를 하면서 아쉬운 부분이 발생하실 수 있을 것 같습니다.

좋은 멤버분들이 계셔서 넓은 아량으로 이해해주실 거라 믿습니다.

리더라는 직함은 제가 가지고 있지만 많은 분들이 이끌어 주시는 스터디라고 믿고 열심히 하겠습니다.

감사합니다.

ps : nixon님 정말 고생 많이 하셨습니다.

topic_pre-inter.doc

Small Talk

1. What do you like to do on weekends?

   2. Do you have things not to do even though you plan?

   3. how do you think changing holiday Saturday to Wednesday ?

Topic1. Ebola in America: What You Need to Know About the Virus

Ebola has been making headlines since March when an outbreak of the rare, but deadly, hemorrhagic disease began in Guinea. Now, three countries in West Africa are in the midst of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history — and there's fear the United States might be at risk.

Two American aid workers, Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol, who contracted the virus overseas have been transferred to Emory University's hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, for treatment. Both have received doses of an experimental serum to help fight the disease, which has no known cure. 

But Dr. William Schaffner, the chairman of the department of preventive medicine and professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, and the past-president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, told weather.com Americans should not fear the disease.

"We see the risk as essentially zero," he said. He explained that he thinks the American public fears Ebola because its strange, mysterious and serious, but emphasizes that it's far less of a threat to the average person than, say, the seasonal flu, which kills more than 35,000 Americans every year. "If someone is returning from Sierra Leone, and has Ebola, but is not yet sick, I could sit right next to them on a plane and not be concerned," Dr. Schaffner said.

Questions

1. how much information do you have about Ebola?

2. Duksung Univ plan to invite the student from the contury to occur Ebola, what do you think about it?

3. the new type virus like Ebola and SARS is occurred once a cupple of year, how do think about it?

4. Some internet stange story like chiness organs trafficking became hot issue in Korea, what kinds of story do you know? And do you believe it?

5. if you have plan to visit the countries to occurs Ebola due to works or others, do you?

6. do you have any virus you're afraid than others?

Topic2. New words

Readers looking up the word “heart” will find the symbol listed as an entirely new usage, as a verb meaning “to love”.

Perhaps the most famous example, which is included in the latest edition of the dictionary, is the New York tourism advertising slogan: I [heart] NY.

Its earliest recorded use is on a car bumper sticker printed in the US in 1984, which read: “I [heart] my dog’s head.”

Researchers believe the use of the heart symbol in this way is the first time a typographical innovation developed through such bumper stickers and tee-shirts has entered mainstream language use.

The symbol is among 45,437 new words and meanings added to the latest revision of the dictionary, which is held to be the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world.

Among the additions are phrases which reflect the spread of technology, such as OMG, a abbreviation of “Oh my God” used in mobile phone texting, and dotbomb for an internet company which has spectacularly failed.

Changing obsessions in society are also reflected in the first entries for: Wags – the wives and girlfriends of footballers; muffin top – “a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers”; and ego-surfing – “searching on the internet for mentions of one’s own name”.

The newest addition to the rich variety of English words for being drunk is now lashed (also included as the phrase on the lash), while the happy camper and the domestic goddess should avoid bogus callers, or they might suffer a crack-up and end up in singledom.

Several entries reflect the nation’s increasingly eclectic diet, with the first mentions of: banh mi – a Vietnamese sandwich with pickles and meat; taquito - a small Mexican taco, or fried roll of filled maize bread; and kleftiko – a Greek dish of slow-cooked lamb.

The OED was first published in 10 volumes in 1884, but it took 100 years for the full second edition to be published, by which time its size had doubled to over 59million words in 20 volumes.

A comprehensive updating was begun in 1989, and it is now available online, where the latest meanings will be added today.

The largest single entry is the verb “to run”, which has 645 different senses, phrases and idiomatic uses. Its entry is half as large again as the next-longest one, which is “to put”.

Graeme Diamond, the principal editor of the OED's new words group, said: "While symbols do become spelt-out words relatively frequently, it’s usually only with a mundane meaning as the name of the symbol - “star” for *, “hash” for #, and so on.

"It’s very unusual for it to happen in such an evocative and tangential way, and this is due to the special place the heart (as an organ of the human body) occupies in the language.

"In English, since the late 12th century the heart had been thought of as the seat of love and affection."

New words or meanings:

Bang one’s head against a brick wall – (phrase) to engage in a futile or fruitless effort

Hedge one’s bets – (phrase) to confront uncertain circumstances by pursuing multiple courses of action; to avoid committing oneself.

Five-second rule (also three- and ten-) – (noun) a notional rule which permits the retrieval‎ and consumption of dropped food within the specified period of time

Scrunchy – (adj) of a wrinkled or ruffled appearance

State-run – (adj) operated or managed by the government of a country

Tragic – (noun) a boring or socially inept person, especially a person who pursues a solitary interest with obsessive dedication

Tinfoil hat – (noun) used with allusion to the belief that such a hat made of metal foil will protect the wearer from mind control or surveillance

Storming – (adj) great, excellent, marvellous

Tasty – violent, good at fighting

Yuck factor – (noun) a feeling of horror, revulsion, or disgust generated by an idea, action or situation

Questions

1. Do you have dictionary? Electronics or paper? What language?

2. If you add Myzone to English Dictionary, What definition and example do you make?

3. How do you think that heart symbol(♡) enter the dictionary?

4.Do you use abbreviation’s words like “OMG”?

5.Now, formal Korean changed, “짜장면” and “자장면” are correct, what do you think about it?

6. In Britain, There are a dozen of word to explain ship, The snow is same for Eskimo, What word is for Korean?

7. Now, many languages disappear, what do you thinking about it?

8. What do you think that world people use one language?

9. Image the future of language.

스터디 안내문은 월요일 초중급반 가이드를 이용하겟습니다.

우리반을 처음 찾으시는 분들을 위한 안내의 글입니다. 

 초중급반이란?

   - 마이존엔 초급과 중급이 나뉘어져 open class로 운영되고 있습니다.(정원제가 아니라는 뜻입니다^^)

     그러나, 별다른 인터뷰도 없고 오로지 본인의 판단만으로 반을 결정해야 하는 문제점이 있네요..

     초급과 중급사이에서 모호함을 느끼는 분들~은 초중급반에서 부터 마이존 경험을 시작해 보세요.

     색다른 즐거움과 motivation이 기다리고 있습니다.

    우리반은 매주 신입멤버를 모집합니다.

  스터디 운영 방식은요?

     11;30~11;50  greeting and casual talk

     12;00~12;50  Conversation 1

     12;50~13;00  tea time

     13;00~13;50  Conversation  2

     13;50~14;00 wrap up the study

      스터디가 끝난 후엔 친목도모 혹은 허기를 달래고자 하는 목적으로 거의 매주 개더링이 이뤄집니다.

           한시간 남짓한 시간이 가져다 주는 활력과 즐거움을 이루 표현할 수가 없네요 ㅎㅎ

 참여대상은?

  - 기본적인 생활영어 표현이 가능하신 분들 (본인소개,취미,미래의 꿈등 가벼운 주제의 토론에 큰 어려움이 없으신 분들)

  - 초급 10pass member ,중급 10pass member 모두 참석 가능합니다.

  - 예습 없이도 topic을 5분이내에 파악하실 정도의 능력은 되셔야 겠죠?!

  Topic 과 참여방법

  - 토픽은 스터디 3일전(금요일)까지 게시판에 Upload 됩니다.

  - 참여는 게시판에 매주 게시되는 모임공지에 꼬리말을 다시고 스터디 당일 마이존 현장에 와서 pass를

    구입하시면 됩니다.

  - 참여 댓글을 달지 않고 참여하시면 토픽 hand out을 100원에 구매하셔야 하니, 번거로우시더라도 반드시  참여댓글을 다셔야 합니다.

  - 패스는 한달 4회<우리반만 사용> 이용하실수 있는 Monthly pass를 구매하시거나 10times pass를 구입하시고 참여하시면 됩니다.

우리가 스터디 모임 하는 공간 

마이존은 English cafe 우리가 스터디 하는 공간입니다.

각 스터디에 관한 궁금한 사항은 스터디 게시판에 질문을 남겨 주시기 바랍니다.

스터디 전체적인 것에 대한 궁금한 사항은 운영자 Michelle (미쉘)  jae-ryeon@hanmail.net 에게 문의 바랍니다.

장소 & 위치에 관한 문의 사항  ☎ 02-556-0719 문의 주세요.

 

[actionJUN]

새롭게 리더 맡은거 축하합니다 ^^ 나 누군지 모를라나 ? ㅎㅎ 어쨋든 한동안은 개인사정으로 못나가니까 아쉽지만 곧 뵙기를 바래요 ㅎ 새리더는 축하해요. 그리고 닉슨교주님 포레버

[Damien2]

닉슨 교주님은 항상 자기 마음속에 있을지니..

[ben~]

1st/Ben/토픽이 후덜덜 하네요.ㅋㅋ

[Gerrard]

좀따 뵈요 형..ㅋㅋ

[Lani]

2nd/Lani/010-8647-7740/첫 참석이라..잘 부탁드려요..

[Gerrard]

저도 처음인데 잘 부탁드립니다.

[Edwin Y.]

3rd/Edwin/010 274삼 공62공/저도 처음 참석합니다. 잘 부탁드립니다.

[Gerrard]

처음을 같이 해주셔서 감사합니다.

[Edwin Y.]

1시반 시작으로 착각했네요. 이번주는 참석이 어려울것같습니다.

[작가]

4th/yoon/010.7558.4022
처음 참석입니다. 댓글달고 낼 가면 되는거죵^^*

[Gerrard]

네 내일 뵙겠습니다.

[작가]

리더님, 연락처를 몰라 여기 댓글로 남겨요. 오전에 좀 급한 일이 생겨서요. 담주부터 꼭 참석해볼게요~

[Gerrard]

다음주에 뵐게요

[Sophie G.]

5th/sophie/낼뵐께요

[Gerrard]

내일 뵐게요

[maristella]

6th/Stella/참석해요^^

[Gerrard]

네^^

[seren_dipity]

7th/Seren/참석합니다^^ 새로운 리더님 안녕하세요~^^ 앞으로 잘 부탁드립니다~

[Gerrard]

내일 봐요

[sapiens]

8th luke /게라드가 맡게됫군여 ㅎ 축하합니다~

[Gerrard]

감사합니다 좀따 뵐게요

[uncle]

9th uncle/처음 뵙습니다. 오늘 사정이 있어 스터디 중간에 나가야 하지만 참석할께요^^

[Kelly♪]

오잉 제라드 내가아는 제라드??