F2F Class Notes (Celeste)[S]***

Read the story below.
In your next class be prepared to tell a story about your hometown or best friend.
Remember: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

graduate / am or is graduating / graduated
eg. I was graduated in last year.  – I graduated last year.
eg. I am graduating next week. He is graduating next month. You are graduating next year.

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good / better/ best
eg. Pork Curry is good. Chicken is better than pork.   Sushi is the best.
eg.  Dog is good. Cat is better than dog. Spiders is the best. – Dogs are good. Cats are better than dogs. Spiders are the best. 

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Bad, Worse, Worst.
eg. Pasta is bad. Buckwheat is worse than pasta. Tofu is the worst.
eg. The weather in Belarus is bad. Chinese weather is worse than Belarus’ weather. Russian weather is the worst. – The weather in Belarus is bad. The weather in China is worse than Belarus. The weather in Russia is the worst.

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I figured out how to count people.

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I measured how much water in bottle.  – I measured how much water is in the/my/your bottle.

Vocabulary

Q: Do you go to school right now? = Do you have school right now?
A: No, I don’t.

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Q: Does that make sense? = Do you understand? / Do you have any questions?
A: Yes, that makes sense. / No, that doesn’t make sense.

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familiar – sth that you know
eg. Are you familiar with spiders?

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raise sth/sb – to take care of sth from when it is a baby
eg. My parents raised me to be a good student.
eg. She has 20-30 snakes so she raised a lot of them from when they were babies.
eg. Sasha raises cockroaches to feed his spider.

Pronunciation

free vs. three

bought ( bot )

Tell me about your spider. Why do you like spiders?
Remember: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

Original

When I buy it, it was one centimeter and now it maybe 10 cm. He ate 1 time at week. He doesn’t need so much care. He is not dangerous.

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1st Edit

When I bought it, it was one centimeter and now it is maybe 10 cm. He eats 1 time each/per week. He doesn’t need so much care. He is not dangerous.

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2nd Edit

When I bought it last year in March/ When I bought it last March in Minsk, it was one centimeter and now it is maybe 10 cm. It is grey and a little black.  He lives in a small, plastic box. I put his box near my bed. He eats cockroaches and worms 1 time each/per week. I raise the cockroaches and worms so I don’t have to buy them for the spider.  He doesn’t need so much care. He is not dangerous.