2022/12/24(土)SMC
Merry Christmas! In the president's remark, he thanked everyone present for gracing the meeting with their attendance. He also informed them of the coming of 'elders' from Mormon church. They sent a message at 7:00 in the morning to the effect that they wouldn't mind coming to the meeting one more time. Since we didn't have enough smc members, they were a welcome addition.
Word of the Day: SM Noro
"Yield"
1. In case of finding or listening to the word, “Yield”
A) Road Sign, “Yield” - The meaning of this sign is that you have to stop once and give way to the car on the road ahead and to allow yourself to enter if it is safe.
B) Yield Rate – “Yield Rate” is the percentage of the production volume that can actually be delivered to customers excluding defective products from the total production volume. For instance, yield rate 90% means that 900 of the 1000 pieces made are good.
C) Yield Curve Control – “Yield Curve Control (YCC)” is the Bank of Japan's monetary policy of buying and selling Japanese Government Bonds as much as necessary to achieve its target of long-term interest rate. Generally speaking, “Yield” is the annual net profit that an investor earns on an investment. On the other hands, “Interest” is the percentage charged by a lender for a loan.
2. Word Origin: Old English, gieldan ‘pay, repay’, of Germanic origin. The main sense is ‘giving benefits’. The other senses ‘produce, bear’ and ‘surrender’ arose in Middle English.
3. Verb
A) [transitive] yield something to produce or provide something, a profit, result, information or crop, = [produce]
Ø This farm yields potatoes and onions.
Ø Higher-rate deposit accounts yield good returns.
Ø The research has yielded useful information.
Ø These trees no longer yield fruit.
Ø The project is expected to yield good returns in future.
B) [transitive] yield something/somebody (up) (to somebody) to allow somebody to win, have or take control of something that has been yours until now, = [surrender]
Ø He refused to yield up his gun.
Ø The universe is slowly yielding up its secrets.
Ø He would never yield up the castle to the English.
C) [intransitive] to stop resisting something/somebody; to agree to do something that you do not want to do, = yield to something [give in]
Ø He reluctantly yielded to their demands.
Ø I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar.
Ø The hijackers refuse to yield to demands to release the passengers.
Ø He is selfish and unyielding. (antonym)
D) [intransitive] to move, bend or break because of pressure
Ø Despite our attempts to break it, the lock would not yield.
Ø The surface of the steel should yield slightly under pressure.
E) [intransitive] yield (to somebody/something) (North American English, Irish English) to allow vehicles on a bigger road to go first, = [give way]
Ø Yield to oncoming traffic.
Ø The vehicles should yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
4. Noun
A) [countable, uncountable] the total amount of profits, result, information, crops etc. that are produced
Ø a high crop yield
Ø The average milk yield per cow has doubled.
Ø Shareholders are expecting a higher yield this year.
5. Phrase
* Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.
Please make an example sentence by using a word “yield”.
Lecture: SM Kei Narisawa
Have you ever noticed that Europeans get upset whenever an American refers to “football” as “soccer”? And how about the fact that Americans refer to their own most popular sport as “football” even though it isn’t soccer? I’m not trying to confuse you here. This seems to be a legitimate concern for many in Europe, especially the British. For their part, Americans don’t really care what other people think about their sports preferences. But, to avoid confusion here, let’s refer to “American football” by its technically correct name: “gridiron” or “football.”
Gridiron evolved in the 1800s in North America out of soccer and rugby, which were imported by the British. Notice I said North America? Yes, that’s because gridiron is the second most popular sport in Canada, right behind hockey.
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Qestions:
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What you can learn from the passage within the first square?
* What is called in Europe what we call ‘soccer’ ? football
* In America, when they say ‘football’, what sport are they referring to? American football
* In order to avoid confusion, what do they call their most popular sport in America without calling it football? gridiron
Table Topic Speech
1 Which activities make you lose track of time?
2 What is your number one goal for the next six months?
3 A birthday to remember
4 Who would you like to please the most?
Prepared Speech
Who stole and ate our Christmas cake?: SM Kakisu
When the speaker was a child, it was rare for a Japanese family to buy a Christmas cake, but his father did. They ate only half of the cake on Christmas Day and left the other half on the Buddhist altar for New Year's Day.
They tried to eat the cake on New Year's Day, but it was gone. Since no one had eaten it, they assumed that their dog had eaten it.
A year later, they did a house cleaning at the end of the year. At that time, they found a cake on the top of the altar. The cake was covered with mold. Someone had moved the cake from one place to another.
Their dog was innocent.
Meeting Schedule
In-person: 9:30 AM on Jan. 14 at Oyama Commumity Center
( Coordinator: SM Noro, Word of the Day: SM Takahata, Lecturer: SM Eda)
Zoom: 7:30 PM on Dec. 26
