Demo Class Notes (Serena – Nick)

Nick***Demo Student***

Serena

– needs to teach kids English – pronunciation & vocabulary are most important. Confidence currently low. 

Listening: 3
Speaking: 2
Reading: 2.5
Writing: 2.5
10
1 year

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F2F: 2

WeChat: –

Email: 2

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

SPEAKING: slow down and think about your grammar – try to self correct
WRITING: write about your life, like a diary. Try to make long sentences.

Thank you for coming to meet us Canny! It was really lovely meeting you. If you have any questions about the notes or anything, please just ask us. 🙂
Jesse & Judy

Next Class Focus

Do more speaking. Work on making full sentences and being less shy.

Vocabulary

Break vs. Rest
— “break” is when you take a short time to rest during work
e.g. I’m going to take a quick break before finishing this paper.
— “rest” is a verb
e.g. I need to rest for a few minutes before running any more.

Traffic Jam – when there are too many cars on one part of a road
e.g. There was a traffic jam at Panyu Road and Yan’an Road.

Metro/Subway – trains that run underground, 地铁

visa – a card that can let you go to another country.
eg. I need to get a visa if I want to go to Japan

Grammar

Sentence order:
English – Subject + Verb + Object + Extra information (with who, when, where, etc.)
Chinese – 主语　＋　（哪儿，跟谁，etc.) 　＋　动词　＋　宾语

从(时间)到(时间) = from (time) to/until (time)

Speaking exercise

I get up at nine o’clock and then go to work, until twelve o’clock I have a rest. I am an interior designer, houses. Eat lunch 12 to 12:30. Sleep, 2 o’clock get up. Traffic, too many people. 地铁

I got up at nine o’clock and then went to work, until twelve o’clock I have a rest. I am an interior designer, houses. Eat lunch 12 to 12:30. Sleep, 2 o’clock get up. Traffic, too many people. 地铁

I got up at nine o’clock and then went to work. I work until twelve o’clock, and then I take a lunch break. I am an interior designer. I work on houses. I ate lunch from 12 to 12:30. Then I slept until 2 o’clock, when I got up. There was a lot of traffic–too many people! Then I will take the Metro home.

Reading

Fresh Fish

Pronunciation

Early – Er – lee
— “Er” is about closing your mouth a little, tightening the corners, and lifting your tongue
— “L” is about putting your tongue behind your teeth, on the round part

Alarm – uh – larm

Next – nekst
— “x” is a “k” and then an “s” sound

Five – the “long I” is “a + i”

Fresh Fish
–“sh” is putting your tongue near the top of your mouth and making it wide and blowing air
— short “i” (not feesh)

f v th th s z shh zhh
name – aiii