F2F Class Notes (Lily)[S/R]

Speaking exercise

I went to Tokyo with my friends. This is my second time to Tokyo, we stayed at our friend’s home, and we visit some places around Tokyo. Nothing special in Tokyo, just for a relax holiday. We went to a place, many Japanese like to go there for summer holiday, because the weather in  qingjingzhe is very cool, it’s not a good time to visit there because it’s a little cold in October. We had shopping because there is a big outlet at qingjingzhe, afterwards, the hotel pick us up to hotel. Hotel is very good, their service is very nice, and they can speak English very well. I think it’s very good in Japanese, because we know many Japanese English is poor in pronounciation. There are not so many people in qingjingzhe, when we try to go out for dinner, most restaurants has been closed. Fortunately, we find a small restaurant, it was an italian restaurant, taste good. We also visited another placed named liancang, people watched the cartoon guanlangaoshou, people would say theres many famous train station in that cartoon movie, we visited that train station and took some places. In tokyo, it’s like shanghai. My friend told me think only Tokyo is a city, other Japanese in other cities are just countryside.

Revised

I went to Tokyo with my friends. This is my second time to Tokyo, we stayed over at our friend’s home, and we visited some places around Tokyo. There was nothing special in Tokyo, it was a relaxing holiday. We went to a place named qingjingzhe, many Japanese like to go there for the summer holiday, because the weather in qingjingzhe is very cool, it wasn’t a good time to visit there because it was a little cold in October. We went shopping because there was a big outlet at qingjingzhe, afterwards, the hotel shuttle bus picked up us.. The hotel was very good, the service was very nice, and they could speak English very well. They would be considered as good English speakers because we know many Japanese speak poor English, especially in pronunciation. There were not many people in qingjingzhe, when we tried to go out for dinner, most restaurants were closed. Fortunately, we found a small Italian restaurant, it was an italian restaurant, it tasted pretty good. We also visited another place named liancang, if you’ve watched the cartoon guanlangaoshou, you would know there was a  famous train station in that cartoon , we visited that train station and took some pictures. Tokyo is like Shanghai . My friend told me that the Japanese think that only Tokyo is a city, other cities in Japan are just countrysides/ rural areas.

Reading

The country of Paraguay held its fourth annual beauty contest for plus-size women to send a message that ‘beauty does not have a size’. The women competed for the title of ‘Miss Gordita’ which in English means ‘Miss Chubby’, and the contestants strutted in evening gowns or swimsuits just like in any other pageant.

This year, 20-year-old Gabriela Venialgo won the title and tiara. She said that she would wear the tiara proudly in her name and in her country’s name.

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Vocabulary

strut (walk and show something off),
gowns (a long elegant dress),
pageant (a ceremony where people dress up)

tiara (a small crown that people sometimes use to show that you won in a contest).