F2F Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

server: waitress/waiter

high-end restaurant: 高端餐厅

Northern China: 中国北方

culture: 文化

habit: 习惯

doesn’t take reservations: 不接受预定

chef: 厨师

creative: 有创造力的

documentary: 纪录片

online: 网上

regret:后悔

Grammar

as… as…

She is as pretty as a flower.

Speaking exercise

In China, many lower-end restaurants taste better than high-end, expensive restaurants.

We were worried before we got on the airplane. We booked the shuttle bus but it’s not as messy as I imagined/better than I imagined.

Last week, I went to Nanjing to the concert. There were sixteen thousand tickets, but they only put out eight thousand tickets online. The rest of the tickets went to huangniu websites. My friend bought her tickets online for one thousand and fifty yuan. My friend bought her tickets for four thousand eight hundred yuan/forty-eight hundred. When we went to the scene, the tickets sold for twenty thousand yuan, and even 30 minutes into the concert, the tickets were still eight thousand.