2017-04-04 Tuesday 7 PM Flood Priorities

2017-04-04 Tuesday 6 PM JASON ENGLISH CLASS TEACHER JOEYARNOLDVN

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Compare my hometown with yours.

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We can compare my county with your province.

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County = Province

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Compare an area in USA with an area in Vietnam.

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USA:

HCM:

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HCM: 10K people/ square mile or 4K / square kilometer

USA: 2K people / square mile or 700 / square kilometer

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HCM: 8.4 million people

Or over 10 million

NYC: 8.5 million

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Land:

HCM: 2K KM-squared

NYC: 1.2 K KM squared

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Skyscraper

Tall building

Tower

Bi Texco

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It was raining cats and dogs.

It was raining a lot.

It was raining heavily.

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The rain gets into our houses, our homes.

It floods.

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Trash might stop some of the water from draining.

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Should government do everything for us?

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Can companies fix those problems?

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Who should fix our problems, government or normal people & companies?

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Pipes

Drains

Gardens

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Put gardens on roofs.

Put green houses on top of buildings and houses.




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Buy water collectors and filters and wells and put them on your houses.

You can clean the water.

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Green Solutions

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Dams

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Sponge = gather = absorb = to get / collect

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Funnel = pipe filter thing

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Retain = save; keep; collect

Boundaries: border: limit: wall: end of the land

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Irrigating = to water the trees, gardens, everything.

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Irrigation: water pipe system for watering gardens. Sprinklers.

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Sprinkle = splash

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Urban: city

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Aqua = water

Aquifiers: water somethings

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Country music

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Rhythm

Melody

Beat

Flow

Genre = kind

Country is a genre or kind of music.

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Country is like blue grass.

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I think country music comes from blue grass music.

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Group

Root: on bottom

Roof: on top

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1. Root = Roo + TUH

2. Roof = Roo + FUH and bite your lip for FFFF.




Jazz Music

Bluegrass

Country

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I like everything and nothing because its cool.

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Dig a hole.

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Build wells.

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Wells = holes which collects rainwater.

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Sewage = pipes under roads / streets

Sewer

Dam = river wall / filter: it can stop & control the flow of the river

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Dam is also a swear word or bad word or cuss word.

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Broken

Traffic jam

Clogged = blocked

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Separate sewer water from flood water to increase water flow.

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Sewer water is more thick or concentrated or dense and it gets stuck more and goes slower more because it is dirtier.

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Flood water is lighter and cleaner and can go faster.

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Density is lighter.

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Dirt increases the weight of the water.

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We can apply this separation tip to our lives.

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How can we do that?

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How can we apply this advice or tip to ourselves?

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Tip = advice which can come from experience, knowledge, wisdom.

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Pipes can be more efficient and effective when split into two.

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In our lives, we can split priorities from the slower things and the faster things.

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We could make two lists of goals or priorities.

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Backup plan. If one BF dies, I can go to the other.

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Pipe 01 could be our easy dreams to do.

Pipe 02: the hard ones.

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Each day, we can work on our sewer because that is harder and slower to work on.

Then, we can work on the flood water.

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When I say sewer, I mean the more difficult things, dreams, goals, priorities.

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Sewer is like your dream of having family, houses, cars, kids, more money, and everything.

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Sewer is like very hard to do and people do not like to do it.

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But then we have flood water.

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We can find some time to work on flood water too because it goes so much faster.

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Rain watering.

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Sewer = stairs

Flood = elevator

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Or maybe:
Sewer = elevator

Flood = stairs

If waiting

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Robust = strong + flexible = durable

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When the wind blows on a tree, does the tree fall and die?

No, because the tree bends because it is flexible, durable, robust, adaptable.

If it was not, then it might crack, break, fall, and then die.

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They make buildings act like trees for earthquakes.

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Load = weight or a lot of stuff / things; heavy things

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Withstand = handle = bear it

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Corrode = get old, turn brown / red from water and break

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Inspect = check

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Look at the pipes and make sure it is ok.

Inspect the pipes or look at it or check it.

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Inspect = observe = study = look carefully

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Inspect = prepare to correct

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Teachers inspect students.

Parents inspect children.

Employers inspect employees.

Boy friends inspect girl friends.

Girl friends inspect boy friends.

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Inspect. Judge

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Luxury = expensive + nice

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I love luxury.

I love expensive things.

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Five star restaurants are luxurious.

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Next time, we want to know how we can buy houses in HCM and make a lot of money.

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Some flats are big apartments.

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Flats are apartments, but they're normally bigger and nicer.

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Some will say they're the same.

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People are taught that Americans only say apartment and British say flat, but that is not always true.

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Condo

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Villa

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Condo = condominium

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Apartments are rented.

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Condos are bought and owned.

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Condos and flats are apartments, basically.

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It might be the same but it depends on the contracts and laws.

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Mall = condo

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They have had condos since the time of Babylon.

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Tower of Babel was a tower.

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Babylon = an old ancient empire

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Con = together

Domin = domain = property = ownership

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Condominium

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Con-domin-ium

Together - domain

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Priorities sometimes change in our lives, but they tend come back later.

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When we are younger, we care more about family, and that can change, but it will always return.

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I am sleepy.

I feel sleepy.

I want to sleep.

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I want to go to bed.

I want to go to sleep.

I want to hit the hay.

I want to count sheep.

Let's call it a day.

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As kids, we love our family so much. As we get older, we begin to love other things more, like money, power, influence, houses, work, travel, with our own lives, with our own things. But later, we begin to miss family and to love our families so much.

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Then we go back to love and care for family again.

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I saw the boy many times selling gum here at this cafe.

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I would always expect him to come because I always saw him here.

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He would play games on my smart phone everyday for many months.

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He might be like ten years old.

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He did not steal my smart phone.

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I lost my smart phone at McDonald's.

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Then I bought a dumb phone for about 300K VND.

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The boy took the dumb phone.

Why did the boy not take the smart phone?

It does not matter if it is a small bad or a little bad because bad is bad.

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Why didn't anybody stop him from taking my phone?

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If you do not stop smaller problems, then bigger problems will grow from them.

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2017-04-04 Tuesday 6 PM JASON ENGLISH CLASS TEACHER JOEYARNOLDVN

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