F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [S]

Homework

What do you think about the tourists in Shanghai? Write a short story. Upload it to the website. Focus on grammar.

Needs more review

The city is development in a booming speed. / The city development in a booming speed. – The city development is booming. / The development of the city is booming. / The city development is at a booming speed.

Vocabulary

I start my work at 10am/o’clock in the morning and I finish/get off/stop work at 7pm/o’clock in the evening / o’clock at night. 

Grammar

need to do sth –  I need to work overtime until 12AM.

at a speed
eg. The car is moving at the speed of 5km per hour.
eg. The dog is running at the speed of 1m per second.

Have you done sth?
Have you been on vacation since 2011?
A: Yes, I have been (on vacation) to Singapore, Taiwan, Harbin, and Xiamen. 

Speaking exercise

Q: What was the article from yesterday about?

It’s about a place which is developed their tourist very quickly that make their local people feel not comfortable. Then the tour guests was joined in the company and they made some conduct to make the tourist follow it. And the village is very old and it looked like an open air museum. I think the article can tell me that the tourist make the locals not very  comfortable and they made the locals feel inconvenience. The tourist need to follow the conduct of the tour guiders and the company need to write some conduct.

It’s about a place which is developing their tourism very quickly and that makes the locals feel uncomfortable. Then/So, the tour guides and tour companies joined the locals to make some rules of conduct to make the tourists follow them. And the village is very old and it looks like an open air museum. I think the article tells me that the tourists make the locals not very comfortable and they make the locals feel inconvenienced. The tourists/visitors need to follow the conduct of the tour guides and the companies need to write some rules of conduct.

Pronunciation

pharmaceutical ( farm uh sew tih kull )

I  say / you say (sei)

He / she / it says ( sez )