F2F Class Notes (Ben) [S]

Homework

Write a text with the words and expressions covered today

Vocabulary

a distraction = something that takes your attention away when you re trying to focus

If you want to get work done, get rid of distractions.

junk = items with no use or no value, rubbish, trash

My mom says I have too much junk in my room.

I threw away a lot of my grandparents’ junk, but 3 months later, it was back to the way it was.

clutter = fill up the space with a lot of things (noun, verb)

Could you move your bag? It’s cluttering the way.

I don’t want any clutter in my home.

Grammar

if don’t to do that –> if I don’t do that

sometimes my mom said –> says

other’s home is clean –> other’s homes are clean

she complain –> complains / complained

she try –> she tries

Speaking exercise

Our home was fortunated by over 10 years. So it needed to be refreshed, so we planned to adjust the space of study room. That study room used to be my mother’s office. But now it is a storeroom.

It was food of many clutters. So we want to change this room at the beginning.

We will remove the dust and the computer and designed different structure of this room. It will be totally a storeroom for us. So its function will be changed in the future.

But this plan will not be carried out this year because according to the Chinese Traditional, it’s not good to furnish house in someone’s lunar year and this year is my mother’s lunar year. So we will furnish it next year.

Our home was renovated over 10 years ago. So it needs to be renovated again, so we plan to rearrange the study room. That study room used to be my mother’s office. But now it is a storeroom.

It is full of stuff. So we want to change this room first.

We will remove the desk and the computer and design a different arrangement for this room. It will just be a storeroom for us. So its function will change in the future.

But this plan will not be carried out this year because according to the Chinese tradition, it’s not good to rearrange a house in someone’s zodiac year and this year is my mother’s (zodiac year). So we will renovate it next year.

renovate = to make an apartment look newer by painting the walls, etc

decorate = to make an apartment look better after it is renovated, by adding furniture and pictures

a zodiac year, a zodiac sign

What is your Chinese zodiac sign?

My Chinese zodiac sign is tiger.