After watching a speech from Tyler Rasch, I figured out the topic I would make on the next prepared speech for Toastmasters club: 'What I want to do'. I've reminded what I've wanted to do rather than what I've wanted to be.
[Engagement Points]
- I have confined myself to the box of success rules that others made.
At the start of the extradition hearing in February 2020, Assange's legal team argued that Trump was trying to "make an example" of Assange as the trove of classified defense documents relating to Iraq and Afghanistan published by WikiLeaks revealed evidence of war crimes.
- A tightly-packed crowd of supporters celebrated the news outside the Old Bailey in London on Monday, shouting: "Free, free, free, Assange!"
the Old Bailey = the central criminal court in England and Wales
- In May 2019, the federal government charged Assange with a further 17 counts under the Espionage Act for his role in publishing classified military and diplomatic cables.
count: one of the crimes that someone is charged with
the Espionage Act: The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. = 미국의 국가보안법
I found the online language exchange community, and sent a message to a lady living in the United Kingdom. We've talked using a meesenger app till now, but someday we can call each other for imrpoving our English and Korean speaking skills!
[Engagement Points]
- It really peaked my interests again.
- pursue my interest
- I live in Essex on the outskirts of London.
outskirts = the parts of a city or town that are far from the center
- dorky= silly, foolish, stupid, but in a cute way
출처: https://youtu.be/rgVF8epZFRM
- run with: stay in the company of someone or some group = hang out with
- run around with: to spend a lot of time with someone
- sucker punch: to hit (a person) suddenly and usually without any obvious reason
[Engagement Points]
- You're the weakest link.
Weakest Link (aka The Weakest Link) is a British television quiz show, mainly broadcast on BBC Two as well as BBC One. It was devised by Fintan Coyle and Cathy Dunning and developed for television by the BBC Entertainment Department. The game begins with a team of nine contestants, who take turns answering general knowledge questions within a time limit to create chains of nine correct answers in a row. At the end of each round, the players then vote one contestant, "the weakest link", out of the game. After two players are left, they play in a head-to-head penalty shootout format, with five questions asked to each contestant in turn, to determine the winner.
- catch-22: a difficult situation for which there is no easy or possible solution
I'm in a catch-22: to get the job I need experience, but how do I get experience if I can't get the job?
catch-22 situation/dilemma
Joseph Heller coined the term in his 1961 novel Catch-22, which describes absurd bureaucratic constraints on soldiers in World War II. The term is introduced by the character Doc Daneeka, an army psychiatrist who invokes "Catch-22" to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity—hoping to be found not sane enough to fly and thereby escape dangerous missions—demonstrates his own sanity in creating the request and thus cannot be declared insane. This phrase also means a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
"You mean there's a catch?"
"Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
- Implication = the background information of a situation
- How late are you open? = When do you close?
- How do I get to [location]?
- [#] of the [item]
200 grams of the beef.
4. 6pm - Speaking Practice
[Weekly World News] Take interesting articles from the weekly tabloids (Weekly World News is especially good). Each speaker is required to explain the amazing things reported.
#1.
#2.
- Reporting live from [City], I’m [Name], [News Channel]. --> Reporting live from Seoul, I'm Jenny, Toastmasters News.
