Demo Class Notes (Yuan – Tibo)

I am a new mother, my baby is 18 months and my English is very poor.
I want to say English to people and my work is not say English so I want to learn English.
one is 2 years I want to teach my baby and so I listen to my colleagues and this to learn English is very quickly.
since I graduated  to now it now say English . My work is in government so we not say English.
I am afraid of speaking English.
I like go to cinema and go traveling. Just 2.
Now I don’t go, before I go to cinema every week.
Italy and Japan, Singapore.
Just a little, for food, hotel and transport.

I am a new mother, my baby is 8 month old (boy) and my English is very poor.
I want to speak English to people and in my work I do not speak English so I want to learn English. / I don’t have the chance the speak English at work
My first reason  is in 2 years I want to teach (English to ) my baby and so I listened to my colleagues who told me I could  learn English very quickly here / my colleague told me I could study English in Smart English / my colleague recommended SmartEnglish to me

I haven’t spoken English since I graduated / from my graduation until now I haven’t spoken English much

I work in the government so we do not speak English much / at all.
I am afraid of speaking English. / I am not confident when I speak English
I like to go to the cinema and to go traveling. Just these 2. / these are my 2 hobbies.
Now I don’t go to the cinema , before I went to the cinema every week. / in the past I went to the cinema twice a week
I have been to Italy, Japan and Singapore.
I went to Tokyo
I only spoke English a little, for food, hotel and transport.

Vocabulary

Hokkaido （n) 北海道
I went to Hokkaido

Osaka (n) 大阪
I visited Osaka

Kansai (n) 关西
Osaka is in the Kansai region

region (n) 地带
I visited the Kansai region

confident (adj) 自信的
I am not confident when I speak English

confidence (n)
I need more confidence to speak English

afraid (adj) 害怕
I am afraid of swimming

to graduate (v)  毕业🎓
I started working after I graduated

graduation (n)

to recommend (v) 推荐
She recommended SE to me

recommandation (n)
I listened to her recommandation

reason (n) : why you do something
My first reason to study English is for my baby.

choice (n)选择
I had the choice to go to Japan or Italy

chance (n)机会
I had a chance to watch a movie last week but I didn’t go

transport／transportation (n) 运送
I used English to find transportation

traffic (n) 交通
I am late because the traffic was very bad

government (n) 政府
I work in the government

apartment (n) 公寓
I live in an apartment

polar lights (n) 极光
I went to Finland  to see the polar lights

pregnant (adj) 怀孕
Being pregnant is hard because you can’t eat what you want

Grammar

say + message
Tom said ” I am tired” / Tom said he was tired

speak / speak + someone / Speak + language
I spoke in the meeting / I spoke to Tom / I speak English.

to talk about the future:
in x years / in date
I will teach English to my baby in 2 years
I will teach English to my baby in 2022
I will go to see the polar light in 5 years
I will go to BJ in 5 months
I will meet my friend in 2 days

to talk about a point in the past:
since + time/date
I have been in Shanghai since 2014
Since I graduated I haven’t spoken English much.
I didn’t speak English since I started working in the government
I didn’t eat Japanese food since I became pregnant

[a,b] = From a to b / from … until …
I haven’t been to the cinema from March to July
I haven’t spoken to him from January until now
I haven’t bought anything from January until now

if you mean nothing do not say something but anything instead
I haven’t bought something -> I haven’t bought anything

Pronunciation

colleague 同事 (Col ig)

college 大学