F2F Class Notes (Samara)[S]

Homework

Try to find  the book To Kill A Mockingbird in English.

Speaking exercise

I think he everyday he will take one or two hours to play games even though he has work. Yes, when he, after work, he finish the dinner, he will take make two or three hours to play games. Maybe some football game or other game. Yeah I think my husband is okay, he is Shanghainese, many of Shanghainese English is good. I’m from Leoning province, north east. Our education, is not take much time to teach our English, we don’t need to, when I was a student we need to exam and the. exam has the write and has listening the sentence or something. We don’t need to. we just write. Yes so I think it’s the reason why the north east, most of the north east person’s English are not good. I think maybe when I was a child or a student, I’m not think it’s important I just think oh maybe the chemistry and physics class, I can just take time to learn about this thing. Not pay more attention to English. If I am mom, I think I can tell my daughter, you must study English hard. Yes it is very important. I think if English is good we can have more we to communicate with more people. Just like me, my new boss is Japanese, because I have a lot of cases to report to him, sometimes he tell me something but me.. uhhh, it’s difficult for me to understand him. Sometimes I need to introduce some case for him, he is a legal counsel we are in house. Sometimes I need to introduce some cases. For him, for example, administrative cases, and some vocabulary is a little specific. And when I, before I will communicate with him I have to prepare.


I think he everyday he will take one or two hours to play games even though he has work. Yes, when he, after work, he finishes dinner, he will take two or three hours to play games. Maybe some football game or other game. Yeah I think my husband is okay, he is Shanghainese, Shanghainese English is good. I’m from Leoning province, North East. Our education, does not focus on English, we don’t need to. When I was a student we need to take an exam and the exam has writing  and has listening to the sentence or something. We don’t need that, it’s just writing. Yes, so I think it’s the reason why the North East, most of the North East person’s English are not good. I think maybe when I was a child or a student, I did not think it’s important I just thought “oh maybe the chemistry and physics class, I can just take time to learn about this thing”. Not pay much attention to English. I wish to teach my daughter, “you must study English hard”. Yes it is very important. I think if our English is good we can  communicate better with the world. Just like me, my new boss is Japanese, because I have a lot of cases to report to him, sometimes he tell me something but me.. uhhh, it’s difficult for me to understand him. Sometimes I need to introduce some case to him, he is a legal counsel we are in-house. Sometimes I need to introduce some cases. For him, for example, administrative cases, and the vocabulary is very specific. And when I, before I will communicate with him I have to prepare.

Vocabulary

Court Room: Where the lawyer and judge and prosecutor talk.

Trial: The case they are communicating.

Jury: Chinese government does not really have this.

Thought: Think past tense.

Pronunciation

Specific
North East


Book Reference:
To Kill A Mockingbird.