F2F Class Notes (Jacob) [S]

Demo StudentJoan

Vocabulary

红烧肉 – Red braised pork  belly

Braise – to cook slowly and add sauce

Slow cooker – a small pot that you can cook stuff at a very low temperature to make it soft

Cuisine – èœ food from a certain region (Shanghai, Chinese, Italian, French, American, Japanese, Thai)

Stake – what is being gambled/what you can win or lose
eg. There is a lot at stake. You have to eat broccoli if you get this question wrong. (broccoli is the stakes in this example)
eg. I bet 500$ on this game so I have a lot at stake. (500$ is at stake)

Grammar

we/she/he/the/that/there/it –> Must give these words meaning before using them (say who, where, or what your talking about)

Pronunciation

Cuisine [Kwe-zine] 

Speaking exercise

Original 

I never liked vegetables but I’m a good child, but my parents tell me ‘you should eat more vegetables’, I will eat a little.

Edited

I never liked vegetables but I was a good child, but my parents told me ‘you should eat more vegetables’, so I would eat a little.

Original 

When  I was a child, in summer holiday I stayed at home alone and my parents went to work. They told me stay at home and do my homework. Don’t watch TV! So I watched TV and close it before my parents went home and make sure the temperature have been down.  So they will not know whether I watched the TV.

Edited

When  I was a child in the summer holiday I stayed at home alone and my parents went to work. They told me to stay at home and do my homework. Don’t watch TV! So I watched TV and close turned it off  before my parents went came home and made sure the temperature had been gone down.  So they will would not know whether I watched the TV.

Original

If I got 5,000 rmb for tonight –> I would go to have a dinner with my friends and then we can go to see Marvel and after that we could go to the supermarket and buy some meat. Stay in the five star hotel and have massage.

Edited

I would go to have a dinner with my friends and then we can go to see Marvel and after that we could go to the supermarket and buy some meat. Stay in the a five star hotel and have massage.