Demo Class Notes (Nini – Jesse)

Speaking exercise

I went to france when i graduated from my college with my girlfriend, this is our graduation trip and we would like to go to europe so the first of place we choose in europe because i heard france is very romantic, very beautiful and we went to there on july last year. When we got there it’s 9 o’clock PM but the sky is very light, in china at 9 or 10 o’clock the sky is very dark. We have dinner on a boat, on the river seinne, and the boat is made from glass, so we went there is summer so it’s very hot, we go at 6 and a half PM but it’s very hot like the noon, and on the boat we have french meal, some snail and some beef, I don’t like it a little. So this is my favourite.

I went / took a trip / went on holidays to france when i graduated from / finished my college with my girlfriend / with one of my girlfriends / with a girlfriend of mine, this / it was our graduation trip and we wanted to go / were keen on going / were interested in going to europe so the first of place we chose in europe was france because / since / as / due to the fact that i heard france was very / so / really / particularly romantic, and beautiful and we went to there in july last year. When we got there it was 9 o’clock PM but the sky was very light. In china at 9 or 10 o’clock the sky is very dark. We had dinner on a boat, on the river seinne, and the boat was made from glass. When we went there it was summer so it was very hot. we went at half past 6 PM / 6:30 PM but it was very hot like the noon, and on the boat we had a french meal, some snail and some beef, I didn’t like it very much. So this was my favourite dinner.

Vocabulary

went / took a trip / went on holidays / went on a business trip

graduated from / finished university / college

wanted to go / were keen on going / were interested in going

very / so / really / particularly / quite
eg. I think she’s quite beautiful

because / since / as / due to the fact that
eg. I was late due to the fact that my car broke down

Grammar

here / there / home – special places, don’t need “to”