F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [S]

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Homework

Correct this speaking exercise below. First, give more detail for the first paragraph. Second, correct your grammar in the second paragraph. 

What I like most is the delicious food and maybe the autumn because I have missed it for a long time. The autumn in northern China is very beautiful. Although it’s a small town, but now it is built very beautiful. You know our country will build a new district, do you hear it? ___ district will be built like Pudong district. So Beijing will put some functions to x district. So the development of our town is very good. It’s a common town, it didn’t have natural views.

Actually, I think I like the peace in the village when I was a small child. We didn’t have modern electric equipment or mobile phones so I lived in the village to work with my grandparents and I could play with my friends especially in summer and the autumn when the agriculture foods when at harvest time I will did some work with my grandparents. I think it’s a good memory in my life. Maybe someday if I have time, I will live there for some times, but i would not settle in there.

Needs more review

crisp – hard but easily breakable, firm and fresh
apples, celery(long, green, u-shaped vegetables   Qin Cai) soda(coca-cola)
eg: These apples aren’t crisp anymore, they’ve been sitting here for weeks.
eg. In the US, in the autumn, the air is crisp and cold. = The air is fresh in the autumn.
eg. The autumn leaves on the trees are crisp when they fall to the ground.

Vocabulary

itchy adj. – a feeling when your skin is irritated
eg. If you touch Chinese yams, your skin feels itchy.

scratch / scratching / scratched v. – to vigorously rub sth
eg. I always scratch my skin when I mosquitoes bite me.
eg. Don’t scratch your eyes and face!

Speaking exercise

Your Hometown

  1. What’s (the name of) your hometown (again)?
  2. Is that a big city or a small place?
  3. Please describe your hometown a little.
  4. How long did you live there?
  5. Did you like it? / Did you like living there? *
  6. What did you like (most) about your hometown? / Is there anything you dislike about it?
  7. Do you think you will move there again?

I from a small town in Hebei Province which is called Boye County. It’s near Beijing City. It’s a small town with about 300,00 people. I growed up in a small village with my grandparents so I love my hometown because there are my family, my friends. I had lived there for 18 years before I went to my college. Each year I will spend some day to go bike to see my friends my relatives. What I like most is delicious food and maybe the autumn because I had missed the autumn in my hometown for a long time. The autumn in northern China is very beautiful. Although it’s a small town, but now it is built very beautiful. You know our country will build a new district, do you hear it? ___ district will be built like Pudong district. So Beijing will but some functions to x district. So the development of our town is very good. It’s a common town, it didn’t have natural views. Actually, I think I like the peace in the village when I was a small child. We didn’t have modern electric equipment of mobile phones so I lived in the village to work with my grandparents and I could play with my friends especially in summer and the autumn when the agriculture foods when at harvest time I will did some work with my grandparents. I think it’s a good memory in my life. Maybe someday if I have time, I will live there for some times, but i would not settle in there.

I‘m from a small town in Hebei Province which is called Boye County and near Beijing. It’s a small town with about 300,00 people. I grew up in a small village with my grandparents because my parents worked in the city. I love my hometown because my family and friends are living there. I had lived there for 18 years before I went to college. Each year I will go back to see my friends my relatives.

TBC

What I like most is the delicious food and maybe the autumn because I have missed it for a long time. The autumn in northern China is very beautiful. Although it’s a small town, but now it is built very beautiful. You know our country will build a new district, do you hear it? ___ district will be built like Pudong district. So Beijing will put some functions to x district. So the development of our town is very good. It’s a common town, it didn’t have natural views.

Actually, I think I like the peace in the village when I was a small child. We didn’t have modern electric equipment or mobile phones so I lived in the village to work with my grandparents and I could play with my friends especially in summer and the autumn when the agriculture foods when at harvest time I will did some work with my grandparents. I think it’s a good memory in my life. Maybe someday if I have time, I will live there for some times, but i would not settle in there.

Pronunciation

fine vs. fan

bike vs. back