F2F Class Notes (Alex) (S)

Use the past tense to tell us about your time in high school

My major in university is digital art and television art. I think the life in the university is more happy than in the high school because the life is more freedom. You can choose the lesson what you like but in the high school you have to study the subjects that you don’t good at. The first year in the university I started to learn painting. But it’s not a normal painting, just draw something on the computer. And the second year we chose our major and then I started to study the television art. We had some lessons about edit videos. We made the videos by ourselves. I think the daily life is a little bit difficult because the building in the university is very poor and old. We don’t have a bathroom in the dormitory. If you want to have a shower we need to go very far away to carry some hot water and then climb about 5 floors so we could find the bathroom. Every floor has only one bathroom. But the major is very interesting because if you do the works about art you don’t have to find the only result. Whatever you paint the professor will say it’s okay.

Revise

My major in university was digital art and video art. I think the life in the university was happier than in the high school because the life was more free. You could choose the lessons that you liked but in high school you had to study the subjects that you weren’t good at. The first year in university I started to learn painting. But it wasn’t normal painting, just drawing something on the computer. And the second year we chose our major and then I started to study video art. We had some lessons about editing videos. We made the videos by ourselves. I think the daily life was a little bit difficult because the building in the university was very rundown and old. We didn’t have a bathroom in the dormitory. If you wanted to have a shower you needed to go very far away to carry some hot water and then climb about 5 floors so you could find the bathroom. Every floor had only one bathroom. But the major was very interesting because if you studied art, then you didn’t have to achieve any standard result. Whatever you painted the professor would say it’s okay.

Vocabulary

video art 

dormitory = the building where students sleep in university, with shared bedrooms

rundown = old and falling apart, in bad condition

eg: In Cambodia, many buildings look rundown

Grammar

The things what you like – the things that you like / the things you like 

I didn’t good at running – I wasn’t good at running 

I don’t good at running – I’m not good at running 

if a verb is not acting as a verb in your sentence, usually it takes -ing

I like painting

I’m good at editing videos