F2F Class Notes 19th April (Celeste)[W]***

NEXT CLASS: CONTINUE EDITING THE STORY BELOW.

Writing exercise

Upgraded Vocab

My mother and my father are typical parents. They are the same as all parents. They both love me.

The best memory I have of my father is on my wedding day. There is one wedding ritual when the bride’s father gives a speech to all / gives a speech to the guests.

My father prepared one and tried to give his speech without his notes. But when the host passed/gave the microphone to my father, he was nervous and couldn’t speak he just told us to enjoy the night/ he was nervous and speechless, he just said to enjoy the evening.

I understand my father, I know how and who he is. He isn’t good at expressing himself, my father always shows his emotions, he doesn’t express/tell them. He acts instead of speaking. So my father always told me “actions speak louder than words.”

When I call my dad he doesn’t say, “I love you,” but instead he sends me money which I refuse. When he does this, I know that this is him showing me that he loves me. 

Sometimes, he doesn’t say anything and he doesn’t do anything. Some people think he is hesitant but I know he has a plan in his head that he keeps to himself. 

He is thoughtful and sometimes overthinks things. If you overthink about everything, you will hesitate. If I see cheap tickets for a trip, I don’t overthink it, I don’t hesitate, I just buy them and go.

TBC

Anyway I love my daddy, although I am a little like my dad, I hesitate. The wedding day is a big day for me and about my father’s speech is a deep memory in my head.

About my mother ,she is very capable. she can deal with everything about our big family and keeps optimist. The deep memory in my childhood is my mother’s cooking . Until now I prefer to eat at home more than go outside.

Grammar

hardly adv. – barely, rarely, almost never

eg. I hardly ever go to Jing’an Park.

eg. I hardly ever sing at KTV.

eg. I hardly ever eat salad.

The yoga teacher do yoga position hardly. – The yoga teacher told us to do difficult positions. The positions were hard.

Q:  Zora, what would you like to do today?

A: Last class there are short sentence haven’t edited.In my last class, we didn’t finish editing my story/writing. So I would like to finish it. 

Vocabulary

salad ( sah – lid ) n. – mixture of leafy green vegetables and/or fruits with meat with salad dressing

salad dressing – sauce for salad

eg. My son doesn’t like salad dressing he likes jam because it’s very sweet.