F2F Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Talk about Allan’s basketball playing – all of the key words to use to talk about it.

NBA news!

Vocabulary

their expected salary = their salary expectations

look over it / look it over – to look at it generally / quickly
eg. they will send me the overview for me to look over.

overview (n)
eg. I sent you an overview of the meeting

overlook (v) – not look / miss sth

pick a call

answer the phone / take a call / pick up the call / pick up the phone
make a call / call sb / phone sb / give sb a call 

humid – hot and wet
eg. in summer in Shanghai it’s really humid
damp – cold and wet
eg. in the south of China it’s quite damp during winter

Oh, there is a song which goes like “dum dee dum doo doo”

3 versus 3 / 3 a side – 3 in each team

if they don’t score / get a basket, they have to back to the 3pt line

Grammar

it take – it takes 

I went to a cafe. It was really good. / It is really good there.

the feature of yunnan for the weather part is usually we chinese people use a sentence to describe this province, all season is spring, so the temperature usually from 15 to 30 so whatever season you go there the temperature is very stable / steady, and I also think there is not very dry or wet so it’s very suitable for people to live. Hainan is an island (pr) but Yunnan is in the south west of China, but Hainan is the most south province in China.

the best part of Yunnan is the weather / Yunnan is famous for its weather and Chinese people / we say a sentence / there is a proverb in Chinese to describe this province which goes like / which says “all season is spring”, so the temperature is usually from 15 to 30 so whatever season you go there the temperature is very stable / steady, and I also think it’s not very dry or wet so it’s very suitable for people to live. Hainan is an island but Yunnan is in the south west of China, but Hainan is the most southern province in China.

Pronunciation

iceland = country – “ice land”
island = land = “eye land”

court – “cort”