Demo Class Notes (Jenny Z – Jesse)

Speaking exercise

I went to Thailand 5 years ago and I went to Russia last year. I went to russia with my mum and other teammates, we go there travel by group and there are some beautiful, not beuatiful but special birds in the street, and i feel very… i want to take pictures with this special birds but after i take picture with them the local people come to ask me to give money to him, and if don’t give him money he won’t let you go. I just take 1 picture and I just have to pay him 500 yuan. They don’t need you to delete it, they need your money. We need to read many papers, articles, in English, we need to read a lot so we need to be good at English, and we need to write English articles… sometimes you just choose very simple words but it can fully express our meaning.

I went / traveled to / visited / I took a trip / went on holidays to Thailand 5 years ago and / other than this / also / furthermore I went to Russia last year. I went to russia with my mum and other teammates, we traveled as a group / I traveled with a group and there were some beautiful, not beautiful but special birds / some pigeons in the street, and i feel very… i wanted to take pictures with this special birds but after i took a picture with them the local people came to ask me to give money to them, and if I didn’t give them money they wouldn’t let me go. I just took 1 picture and I had to pay them 500 yuan. They don’t need you to delete it, they need your money. We need / they require us to / we are supposed to / we must / we have to read many papers, articles, in English, we need to read a lot so we need to be good at English, and we need to write English articles… sometimes you just choose very simple words but it can fully express our meaning.

Vocabulary

we are supposed to – you should do it but you don’t / didn’t

you need to = a little strong
it’s important that / it’s crucial that / it’s necessary for you 

I seldom have time – I don’t have much time to do that / I don’t have a lot of free time 

Pronunciation

name – ayyyy

connect words together, ends of words connect with the next word if you can.

Jason looked at his watch. It was time for his favorite TV show. He turned on the TV. He sat down in his chair. But then he heard his dog. His dog was scratching at the door.