[#EnglishEverywhere🌋 ] 乒乓女混奪銅嘅蘇慧音早幾日就寫咗篇全英感謝文，我哋發現佢啲英文其實真係唔錯，都有啲幾值得學嘅地方，所以今日就同大家一齊研究吓！ 1️⃣ “Olympics, the most glamorous stage for athletes around the world, is the place where dreams are expressed and cherished.” 第一句已經係頗為複雜嘅句式💡 📌 首先用”the most glamorous…”嚟補充佢對奧運嘅看法，然後就係main clause “is the place where…”，呢種用以補充細節嘅句式好常喺Paper 1見到，但好多考生往往會覺得句子好長而理解唔到，其實只要將兩個逗號之間嘅字遮住就會明白作者意思。 📌 至於想用喺Paper 2時，記得check返文法，好多時大家都會將個main verb走咗去dependent clause度，變成”Olympics, is the most glamorous stage for athletes around the world, the place where dreams are expressed and cherished.”，咁你刪除兩個逗號之間嘅時候就會發現”Olympics the place where…”成句冇咗main verb, 一定唔啱grammar。 2️⃣ “Yet behind the dazzling halo of outstanding sportsmen, are people of all races, occupations, statuses and religions, united together to make Tokyo Olympics come true before our eyes.” 📌 呢句我就會改少少，我會將”are”同埋”united”前面嘅逗號刪走，變成前半句一個prepositional clause加後半句main clause “people of all (n.-subject) …united (v.)”嘅grammatical sentence。 3️⃣ 第二段嘅”profuse gratitude”解大量感激/感恩，我哋多用”profuse”喺abstract nouns前面嘅。 ”copious”都係解大量，都係值得落vocab book嘅！ 4️⃣ “…despite of all difficulties and doubts on hosting the gargantuan event under Covid circumstances, Japan offered the athletes a safe and comfortable place to compete.” 💡記住despite, despite, despite! in spite of, in spite of, in spite of! 📌”despite”後面唔跟”of” 但除此之外，要跟noun phrase ”all difficulties and doubts” 呢點係用得非常正確！ 5️⃣ “…and without these people, my dream would never have come true.” 呢度佢用咗”would have + past participle”呢種 hypothetical past 嘅句子💡 講嘅係「假如冇呢班工作人員同義工，我嘅夢想無法成真」，而現實係「有呢班工作人員同義工」同「佢嘅夢想已經成真」，都係一種幾advanced嘅用法嚟🤩 其實第四段有用到另一句hypothetical past，唔知你哋自己揾唔揾到呢？ Source: [@minniesoo ]https://www.instagram.com/p/CSecos7pPdu/?utm_medium=copy_link 講呢兩段已經好長，如果想睇我哋講埋淨低嘅段落，就俾低like同comment，反應好的話就繼續講吓啦。 P.S. 打波又叻，英文又唔錯，仲有感情要好嘅家姐有啲搞笑同sweet嘅interaction，搞到我都忍唔住follow咗佢同家姐。😂😂😂 #🌋👶🏻 🌋 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐧𝐨 🌋 єяυρт ιηтσ уσυя ƒυтυяє ——— #Vocabno #DSEEnglish #hkdseenglish #dse英文 #DSE #dsefighter #22DSE #2022DSE #2022dsefighter #23DSE #2023DSE #2023dsefighter #24DSE #2024DSE #2024dsefighter #HKDSE #Dsetips #JUPAS #升學 #大學 #dsestudygram #studygram #英語學習 #英文教學 #學英文 #蘇慧音 #香港運動員 #tokyo2020

[3/4] And here’s the hard part. If they wake up, let them cry it out for 3-5 minutes. This is SOOO hard. You just want to run in and soothe your baby when you hear him cry, but you need to give them a little bit of time to learn how to self-soothe. 前面的現象已經有夠挑戰了，但是接下來這個真的很難很難很難。 如果寶寶醒來，先讓他哭個3～5分鐘。真的很難。你會想要跑過去把他抱起來，馬上安撫他⋯⋯ 但是這個理論其實是要讓寶寶學會自己安撫自己。 After 3-5 minutes of “crying it out”, do what you can to soothe your baby back to sleep WITHOUT picking him/her up. Pat them on their back, let them know you are there, if you are using pacifiers, go ahead and give them one now, etc. Sometimes, nothing works and you end up having to pick them up anyway. 3～5分鐘後（會感覺是一輩子！），不要馬上把他抱起來，試著用任何其他的方式在嬰兒床裡面安撫他到睡著，拍拍他的背，讓他知道你在他身邊，如果你們有奶嘴可以給他，等等。有時候，真的還是必須把他抱起來安撫。 This is the hardest and most confusing part. Are we teaching Egan how to cry louder by not picking him up immediately? Are we teaching him how to be dependent on a pacifier? How will he learn how to self soothe? Have we trained him to just cry for 3 minutes now? Are we traumatizing him for life? Dream feed your baby when they get hungry at night. Try and extend the time between each dream feed little by little. It’s very helpful if your baby has already extended the time between feeding during the day. 半夜的時候要半夢半醒的餵肚子餓的寶寶。意思就是不要讓他完全清醒的時候邊睡邊喝，可以的話慢慢的拖長餵寶寶的間距。如果白天寶寶已經開始沒有那麼常常喝奶，這個會比較簡單 (THIS is hard. You don’t know if your baby is moaning/making noise/waking up because they are hungry or other reason. So, sometimes, you need to let them “cry it out” and other times, you have to just go with your instincts and pick them up and feed them before they wake themselves up with crying.) 這個部分我個人覺得很難。因為你無法百分之百確定你寶寶是在動或是鬧或是醒來，或是因為真的餓還是只是想要被安慰。所以有時候，你試著讓他大哭3分鐘，但是後來發現他是餓才哭。然後有時候，你餵他因為他稍微動了一下，但是結果太早餵了，其實他可以繼續睡。所以有時候要用你的直覺。但是像我，我常常搞不清楚我做的對不對。 Don’t change their diapers unless they have pooped or it’s really just too much pee. They have night diapers designed especially for this purpose. 晚上除非他們大便或是真的尿的非常的多，就不用一直幫他換尿布。這樣他們的睡眠不會因為被你們吵醒而被中斷。別忘了寶寶有晚上專用的尿布。 #sleeptraining #fail #parenting