Demo Class Notes (Rila – Jesse)

Pronunciation

usually – zhhh

palau – pa lao

the girl is good – the girl liz good
people are good

v th th ss zz – small problem

This year i went to Palau for diving and then i went to Malaysia. I loved ocean and in last year I went to Canada to Vancouver. It’s my boyfriend, he became a citizenship but he’s a Chinese. I didn’t do a lot of work for Canada because my boyfriend used to live at there so I don’t need to think a lot, I just follow him, he rent a car and let me to a lot of place, actually I cannot recall name of place, but I though there was waterfall. We climbed a mountain, not tall, but I felt really exhausting. But I saw a lot of people from Canada and they love to hiking.

This year i went / took a trip / went on holidays to Palau for diving and then i went to Malaysia. I love / I’m really into / I’m a big fan of the ocean and last year I went to Vancouver in Canada. It’s my boyfriend / partner, he became a citizen / got his citizenship but he’s Chinese. I didn’t much to travel in Canada because / as / since / due to the fact that my boyfriend used to live there so I didn’t need to think a lot, I just followed him, he rented a car and took me to a lot of places, actually I cannot recall any name of the places, but I thought there was a waterfall. We climbed a mountain that / which was not tall, but I felt really exhausted. But I saw a lot of people from Canada and they love hiking.

Vocabulary

I am tired / exhausted / bored – feeling
Learning English / climbing a mountain is tiring

he was not quite well – he was sick
he was not good – he wasn’t good

ride – have a ride – give me a ride

preposition – jie ci
conjunction – lian ci

Grammar

verb – what time? 
nouns – which one? how many? 

here / there / home 
eg. come here / go there / go home

I am at home / I am at work / at school
I am here
I am there

tomorrow / yesterday / last year – don’t need on / in

oceans
the ocean
this ocean
the ocean in …