F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [S]

Homework

Review the story below. Read it in your next class or retell it in your own words without any grammar mistakes.

Needs more review

Sometimes, people like the mild character.  – Sometimes people like the mild personality personalities.

Speaking exercise

I went to Xi’an about four years ago with my best friend. We spent three days in Xi’an. There are many delicious food and funny old buildings. My deepest experience of the trip was seeing the Terracotta Warriors. It took us two hours to wait in the line. It was China’s national holiday week.

I spent 3 days in Xi’an about four years ago with my best friend.
I went to Xi’an about four years ago with my best friend for 3 days.
I went to Xi’an for 3 days
about 4 years ago with my best friend. 
 There are many delicious dishes/food(s) and funny old buildings. My most memorable experience/ My favorite memory/ deepest experience of the trip was seeing the Terracotta Warriors.

It took two hours to wait in the line.
We spent two hours in line.
We waited for 2 hours in line. 
 It was China’s national holiday week.
We waited for 2 hours in line because it was China’s National Holiday Week.
It was China’s National Holiday Week so we waited in line for 2 hours.


Yesterday I bought 2 fire extinguishers from website because during these days there was a news shocked me which is the fire in Hangzhou… The fire on the high building in Hangzhou. / The high building on fire in Hangzhou. Sometimes there are 2 chosen to buy fire extinguishers, the first one is commercial using and the other is household using, so I choose the household using because… What’s the difference between them? I asked myself. The household can use for the cooking oil.

The cost of the fire extinguished is 139, I bought 2. 1 is put in the bedroom another one put in the kitchen and I know how to use them.

About 2 years ago, I have the class about how to aim…

Yesterday I bought 2 fire extinguishers from a/one website because recently/lately there was a news story/report about a fire in Hangzhou that shocked me. There was a high rise/skyscraper that caught on fire in Hangzhou. There were 4 people, 1 mother and her three children/kids, that died in the fire. Sometimes there are 2 fire extinguisher choices to buy, the first one is commercial-use and the other is household-use, so I chose the household use because…

“What’s the difference between them?” I asked myself. The household extinguisher/one can be used for cooking fires for example, frying oil fires.

The cost of one fire extinguisher is 139 yuan/rmb, I bought 2. I will receive/get them today and I will put 1 in the bedroom and the other one in the kitchen. I know how to use them because about 2 years ago, I had a class about how to properly/correctly use it. 

Vocabulary

skyscraper/s n. – very tall building that scrapes or scratches the sky (figuratively)

choose / choosing / chose ( ch OH z)  / have or had chosen