Demo Class Notes 27th October (Jesse)

after graduation / graduating from college 

I have travelled a little < > i haven’t travelled much

have < > don’t have (noun)
have done < > haven’t done (verb)  

because of the visa problem
because I couldn’t get a visa  

because + sentence
because of + noun
eg. i was late because of the weather
eg2. i was late because the weather was really bad 

i went to hongkong this year with my friends. in hk i do some shopping visit a museum, visit a park and eating a lot. food in hk is very nice. hk is an international city. it’s clean, impressed me. it’s better than shanghai though i am a shanghainese. hk very good. 

i went to hongkong this year with my friends. in hk i did some shopping and visited a few museums, went to some parks and ate a lot. food in hk is very nice, and has really tasty seafood. hk is an international city. it’s clean which impressed me. it’s better than shanghai even though i am shanghainese. I think hk is very good. 

Main problems 
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short sentences – too simple
past tense / tense (grammar)
nouns + adjective confusion
chinglish logic using complex chinese to translate

i am shanghainese, what about you? I am Australian but I live in China. 

i have a student who is really tall
i have a computer which is apple 

visited = went to = spent time in = walked around