F2F Class Notes (Li)[S]

Go over pronunciation and phonetics.

Vocabulary

I’m good/okay/fine

dragon boat festival: 端午节

virus: 病毒

coronavirus/COVID-19: 新型冠状病毒

pandemic: when a disease spreads on a global scale

eg. COVID-19 is a new pandemic.

eg. The influenza pandemic has spread quickly in 2 months.

bankrupt: unable to pay what you owe 破产

eg. He went bankrupt after the only a year in business.

eg. Many small businesses went bankrupt at the start of this year due to the virus.

supplier: a company/person that provides things that people need

eg. The suppliers failed to provide the products on time.

eg. Please call the supplier to remind them that delivery should be made tomorrow.

disinfect: to clean surfaces using chemicals that kill bacteria 消毒

eg. Doors need to be disinfected hourly at our company.

eg. Have you disinfected the table already?

port: the harbour

it will incur a higher cost/will cost more /be more costly

decrease/minimise

exercise: physical activity that you do frequently

eg. I exercise 3 times a week.

eg. You should do more exercises to build up strength.

stamina: physical/mental strength to do something for a long time

eg. I need to improve my stamina before I can participate in the triathlon.

warm-up: exercise/event you do to prepare yourself for an activity

eg. Let’s do a couple of warm-up exercises.

eg. A warm-up is important before your workout so that you don’t strain any muscles.

my weight stays at 66 kg

put on/gain weight

lose/decrease weight

Grammar

because of …. 

Because of the pandemic, restaurants have gone bankrupt.

I need to put on weight because of the boxing match.

most of the time…

Most of the time he will spend his day working at the office.

I will spar for 2 hours when I go boxing most of the time.

the – singular/plural (specific)

a/an – singular (general)

I have a cat. The cat is orange.

Children in this school are tall.

Because of the virus, the trucks at my company need to be disinfected.

Pronunciation

virus – vai -ras

pandemic – pan – deh-mik

bankrupt – bank (short) – rahpt

A lot of people have redirected to buy some daily products from the supermarket. Because of the virus, the truck need to disinfect when they arrive the port. They need to one by one disinfect. That will make a lot of cost. Then we lose a lot of money right now. My social life decreased and I will make some food prepare other day lunch. But, I like cooking at home, but I didn’t bring some lunch. It depends because when I finish the training,I will feel tired and I don’t want to make the food. I have a boxing competition on 24th of July.

Sometimes we have sparring, sometimes two hours to three hours. My stamina isn’t there yet for the match. The hardest part is control the weight and then before the match day, I can’t drink water and I can’t eat much food, only potatoes. Last time is just a warm-up. But, the next match, I need to fight 3 times.

Revised:

A lot of people have been redirected to buy more daily products/daily goods/groceries from the supermarket. Because of the virus, the trucks need to disinfect when they arrive at the port. They need to disinfect one by one. That will cost a lot/incur a lot of cost. Because of this, we lose a lot of money. My social life has decreased and I will prepare some food for the next day/for next day’s lunch. But, I like cooking at home, but I don’t bring any lunch. It depends because when I finish training, I will feel tired and I don’t want to make food. I have a boxing competition on the 24th of July.

Sometimes we have sparring for two to three hours. My stamina isn’t there yet for the match. The hardest part is to control the weight and then before match day, I can’t drink water and I can’t eat much food, only potatoes. Last time was just a warm-up match. But, for the next match, I will need to fight 3 times.