F2F Class Notes (Alex) (S)

Homework

Write about the movie 寄生虫 again, but more in depth

Vocabulary

a trend = something that is 红 at the moment, can relate to movies, fashion, many things
Wearing baggy jeans is a new trend in Shanghai right now

trendy 时尚
short hair is trendy now

social class 阶层
The widening gap between social classes is a real problem nowadays

aggressive 霸气

Speaking exercise

Topic: New trends

The most hot film maybe is the Korean film called 寄生虫. It won an important award and I have seen this movies these days. It’s good. This film is about two families, a rich family and a poor family. The poor family’s persons didn’t have work and by chance the poor family’s son got a job that to be a home teacher for the rich family. And this son made his whole family’s members all got a job from the rich family. But they pretend that they didn’t know each other. In the end the family’s daughter was dead and the rich family’s father also dead because the poor family’s father killed him.

Revised

The hottest film these days maybe is the Korean film called 寄生虫. It won an important award and I have seen this movie. It’s good. This film is about two families, a rich family and a poor family. The people from the poor family don’t have work and by chance the son gets a job as a home teacher for the rich family. And this son gets jobs from the rich family for all his family members. But they pretend that they don’t know each other. In the end the poor family’s daughter dies and the rich family’s father also dies because the poor father kills him.

Grammar

when you tell a story from a book or a movie, preferably use the present tense, even though the story is set in the past.