F2F Class Notes 22nd March (Celeste)[W]***

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My family went to Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden last Saturday, which is located in Songjiang district. We went there by line nine subway. In the Garden there are thousands of plants, including many exotic plants and some rare and endangered species.

It was sunny day, we got there before noon. Olivia was very excited and ran around there. She likes flowers and plants very much. Every plant is marked with title and description. We can learn a lot about botany in it. But many kinds of flowers have not come out yet, I think the best time to visit there is next month.

It was windy in the afternoon out of the blue, so we left earlier. But it was a thrilling trip,we will go there again next time.

Edited

My family went to Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden last Saturday, which is located in Songjiang District. We went there by (subway) line nine. In the garden there are thousands of plants, including many exotic ones/plants and some rare (,/and) endangered species.

It was a sunny day, we got there before noon. Olivia was very excited and ran around (there). She likes flowers and plants very much. Every plant is marked with a title and description. We can learn a lot about botany from the descriptions.  But many kinds of flowers have not come out/bloomed yet, I think the best time to visit is next month.

Out of the blue, it was windy, so we left earlier than we had planned. But it was a thrilling trip, we will go there again next month.

Vocabulary

decline ( D – cline ) n. – sth that is or went down

decline / declining / declined / will decline – to go down

eg. Abby’s Chinglish is declining.

eg. The market will decline if the president dies.

eg. I hope house prices will decline soon.

incline n. – opposite of decline

incline / inclining / inclined / will incline

eg. House prices are inclining constantly.

eg. Chinese elder quantity  is inclining. – The elderly Chinese population is inclining.

significant = great, grand (adj)

eg. Olivia has a significant amount of homework.

significantly = greatly, grandly (adv)

eg. Olivia significantly improved her piano playing.

bloom / blooming / bloomed / will bloom – to grow or get big

eg. The flowers are blooming.