Demo Class Notes (Cindy X – Jesse)

Speaking exercise

in January i have been to UK for traveling. i want to improve my study, and america, UK or Holland or my choice so i want to go to see see. I had 2 weeks vacation, then i bao ming le EF 2 weeks, just want to try the feeling, and stay in manchester. Maybe every morning or every afternoon go to the school to study the english but i think improving, maybe the english environment rong lu dao li mian.

i wake up at 7 o’clock then i cleaning my house then have a breakfast, then i take the subway go to work. i start work at 9 o’clock. Maybe I usually (pr) open my computer to check my email and give the feedback to the customer or distributor or my colleagues (pr)

in January i went / traveled to the UK for a holiday / vacation. i wanted to improve my English (level), and america, UK or Holland were my choices so i wanted to go / I was interested in going / I was keen to go to have a look / learn about it. I had 2 weeks vacation, then i applied for EF study abroad / overseas for 2 weeks because I just wanted to get some experience / have a try, and I studied in manchester. Maybe every morning or every afternoon I went to the school to study the English because I wanted to improve my overall English through immersing myself in it.

i woke up at 7 o’clock then i cleaned my house / i did some housework / laundry then had a breakfast, then i take the subway go to work. i start work at 9 o’clock. Maybe I usually (pr) open my computer to check my email and give the feedback to the customer or distributor or my colleagues (pr) 

Vocabulary

please pardonsorry? / what did you say? / pardon?

diabetes – die a bee tea (tang niao bing)
a bee died from drinking tea with too much “tang”

Grammar

the = to make a noun obvious to the listener / there is only 1

verbs – what time?
sentences – use conj (lian ci) to give logic (luo ji) + prep (jie ci) to add simple details.

have traveled – general past time – your experience from now
traveled – specific time – in the past