Vocabulary: Inhabit
VOCABULARY: INHABIT
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- Is it ever okay to tell a white lie? When?
선의의 거짓말은 괜찮은 경우가 있나요? 언제요? - Can you usually tell when someone is lying?
누군가가 거짓말하는 것을 보통 알아챌 수 있나요?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
FALL OFF
Fall heavily or suddenly; come to be detached
Examples:
1. The rate of the dollar versus won is continuously falling off.
2. His button on his coat fell off.
3. She fell off from the 3-storey building.
4. The baby suddenly fell off from his crib.
5. The stock market is falling off nowadays.
INHABIT Make one’s home or live in; be present in
Examples:
1. These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted.
2. We have to inhabit this wonderful place.
3. Long time ago, people normally inhabited in the forest.
4. Many of our people today want to inhabit in the city.
5. Polar bears inhabit in the cold places.
An open letter from Vladkhleb to the residents of Vladivostok.
When bread prices raised, Valkhleb, a bakery, asked the krai and city for help in holding down prices. Here is a letter it wrote, published in the Vladivostok Times Sept. 9. 1998
Dear residents of Vladivostok:
The staff and Board of Directors of Vladkhleb can't keep silent in the current wild situation when prices for all existing products are skyrocketing unbelievably. And while we somewhat indifferently watch enormous figures on price tags for delicacy products, every kopeck of extra charge for the staples … causes a real panic. We perfectly realize that, and that's why we have kept bread prices affordable for all this time.
Even after the fall of prices we have tried to keep the past prices for as long as possible.
At the moment all our reserves are exhausted. Stocks of bread-baking ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter and the like are running out. To buy what we need at reasonable prices is virtually impossible today.
However, we cannot temporize. We all need bread every day, which means we will be forced to buy everything we need at much higher prices. What this means perhaps doesn't need to be explained.
The cost of bread closely depends on ingredients. Another financial crisis has led to a 50-300-percent increase of prices for butter, vegetable oil, all types of margarine, yeast and other as of September 1. All these prices continue to grow every hour.
Because of this, Vladkhleb came to the critical point where it is necessary to raise prices of its products. Otherwise, we will just destroy a most powerful bread enterprise. Should Vladkhleb shut down, the bread price will get out of hand. Our economists projected the situation for the near future considering the growing flour cost. With the cost of flour at 2.18 rubles per kilogram at the start of September, the retail bread price was to be 4.36 rubles. With an increase of flour cost to 4 rubles per kilogram, bread price will grow to 6.17 rubles. Further growth will be possible.
So it turns out that bread may rank with delicacy products. Is there another way out? Yes. It is already put into practice by leaders of other cities and regions. For example, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov used the press in the very first days of the crisis to tell the residents that he had decided to subsidize the bread industry so that not to allow prices for this type of food to rise. There were no objections. So did Khabarovsk -- there they pay subsidies for bread-baking ingredients.
Incidentally, the city and krai administrations already have the experience of supporting our plants. Rather than artificially holding back prices, they employed loans and waivers and the like. At this point all the city and krai offices of authority as well as deputies at all levels could consider our propositions such as:
+ Granting waivers on taxes to krai and city budgets;
+ Establishing lower prices for electric and thermal energy for a program of bread
production;
+ Facilitating in reception of customs duty and tax waivers from the federal
government for imported grain;
+ Recovery of Pacific Fleet's debts in the amount of 6 million rubles (calculated as
of August 1998) for supplied products;
+ Lowering rent for premises and plots.
Any of these possible measures will help Vladkhleb contain the growth of prices for its products. Despite of our SOS signal, no measures have been taken as yet. We have found ourselves in the same situation as any of you. We see the situation changing steadily for the worse. We will not cope with that alone.
We see last recourse: Raise the bread price minimally and cancel our free plastic bag service. But what is next? This is the concern of all the 700 employees and the board of Vladkhleb.
Every extra kopeck in the cost of bread upsets you and us very much. Making our sincere apologies for a forced increase of the bread price, we hope for your understanding and support. Today and tomorrow we are with you, as usual.
Board and staff of Vladkhleb.
Comprehension Check
Answer the questions about what you read.
읽은 내용에 대한 질문에 답해 보세요.
- What was the letter all about?
- What did they keep affordable for the people to eat?
- When was the letter published?
- Who were the persons behind this letter?
- What is the purpose of the letter?
- What do you think should a government do if there's a crisis in their country?
- As a citizen, what will you do to help or support your country's government?
- What do you think are the reasons why a country undergo crisis?
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
"discuss"는 타동사이므로 "about"을 쓰지 않습니다.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
- What was the most surprising thing you learned about vocabulary: inhabit from this passage?
이 지문에서 vocabulary: inhabit에 대해 가장 놀라웠던 점은 무엇인가요? - How does the topic of vocabulary: inhabit affect your daily life?
vocabulary: inhabit 주제가 당신의 일상에 어떻게 영향을 미치나요? - Do you agree with the main argument presented in the reading? Why or why not?
읽기 자료에 제시된 주요 주장에 동의하시나요? 왜 그런가요, 왜 아닌가요? - If you could share one idea from this lesson with a friend, what would it be?
이 수업에서 친구에게 공유하고 싶은 한 가지 아이디어는 무엇인가요?
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: VOCABULARY: INHABIT
Level: Low Intermediate (L.I)
Review this lesson before your next class! / 다음 수업 전에 복습하세요!