Lingoda Group Class Notes 55

Topic: Music cultures
Related skill: Reading
Date: 6 December 2024
Teacher: Jennifer

What I've learned

Idioms

It's not my forte - Meaning: it’s not your strength or area of expertise - Example: Dancing is definitely not my forte!

Vocabularies & Phrases

V&P	Definiation	Note
horde	a large group of people	Hordes of screaming teenage fans followed the boy bands everywhere.
epicentre	The epicentre of an earthquake is the place on the Earth's surface directly above the point where it starts, and is the place where it is felt most strongly	They came to be the epicentre of American counterculture(反主流文化).
epitomise	to be a perfect example of a quality or type of thing	Hippies epitomised music festivals.
flux	If something is in a state of flux, it is constantly changing.	Pop music is in a constant state of flux.
revolutionary	Revolutionary ideas and developments involve great changes in the way that something is done or made	The 1960s was a revolutionary decade.
sport	to wear or be decorated with something	They sported flashy clothing.
dominate	to have control over a place or person	One company continues to dominate the smartphone market.

Review

3/5

Same teacher possibility: 0%

I don't like teachers who let students do group activities without providing guidance. Especially when the teacher doesn't teach anything to us before these activities.