Demo Class Notes (Hannah – Jesse)

Hannah

– lawyer, foreign clients, will be using English more and more later, speaking not good enough, studied in China, confidence, vocabulary + grammar next, writing may be better than speaking, writes contracts and emails in English, pronunciation – don’t focus too much on last sound of word. 

推荐课程（每周）/ Your Recommended Course (Weekly)

F2F: 2

Writing: 2

 — EVERY TIME YOU SPEAK OR WRITE, THINK OF THIS: — 

we start from shanghai to the island of japan by a cruise and then stayed on the island. the time spent on the cruise wasn’t very funny because i feel sick due to the unpeaceful ocean but i have really good roommates they are good friends during work and we had good times we even my most beautiful memory is we play music to the ocean, we use a little speaker playing the song called the ocean to the ocean, and we sung together with the speaker, we have really good times. during the 8 hours on the island we did shopping, we went sightseeing, we ate some local foods. they were all good and since we are only allowed to spend 8 hours on the island we had a very tight schedule, then when we decide to take a taxi to go back to the cruise we were not having enough time so we were very very nervous, we kept telling the taxi driver to drive faster and faster.

we started from shanghai and went / to go / I took a trip / I went on a cruise to the island of japan by a cruise and then stayed on the island for 8 hours. the time spent on the cruise wasn’t very enjoyable / fun / pleasant because / due to the fact that / since / as i felt sick due to the choppy ocean / due to the swell / I was sea-sick. I had really good roommates (at that time) who were good friends from work and we had good times, for example / like my most beautiful memory is that we played music to the ocean by / using a little speaker which means that we played a song called “the ocean” to the ocean, and we sung together with the speaker, we had really good times. during the 8 hours on the island we did some / went shopping, we went sightseeing, we ate some local foods. they were all good. Since we were only allowed to spend 8 hours on the island we had a very tight schedule, then when we decided to take a taxi to go back to the cruise we didn’t have enough time so we were very very / incredibly / super / amazingly nervous, we kept telling the taxi driver to drive faster and faster.

Vocabulary

due to = because of
eg. I was late because of the weather

American Born Chinese = ABC

Grammar

speak – spoke – spoken 

i was at colleges – I was at college 

Pronunciation

cruise – crooz

colleagues = col leegz
college / university = da xue = col lij

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