F2F Class Notes (Nicholas) [S]

Vocabulary

accomplished (adj) / accomplishments (noun) – æˆå°±

e.g.Chenglin is a very accomplished person. She has many accomplishments.

average – the usual – å¹³å‡

envious (adj) / envy (noun) – 羡慕

e.g. Are you an envious person?

e.g. Do you have envy?

e.g. You should not be envious.

arrogant / 傲慢 – too confident, almost being rude

rare / doesn’t happen often / doesn’t happen usually

e.g. It’s very rare when I will say “oh that man is more handsome than me!”

e.g. Rarely will I say “oh that man is smarter than me!”

positive vs. negative / good vs. bad

e.g I am a positive thinker because I have positive thoughts.

e.g. You are a negative thinker if you think bad, negative thoughts all the time: “oh this won’t go well oh this isn’t gonna work for me, oh I’m so stupid!”.

motivation / motivated 动机

e.g. Sometimes negative things, can motivate us for positive results.

result / what happened? / 结果

many = a lot of

Asia / Asian / 亚洲

Asia = place

Asian = person

attractive / handsome / beautiful

e.g. She’s so attractive.

Grammar

someone’s beauty face / someone’s beautiful face

if I can’t improve a high level then I will think negatively / then I will think negative thoughts

Speaking exercise

Original

Last year I have acted a short film and this film had two films and I do one of it and my colleague she had a Qing di – my colleague like a boy but the boy like another girl – he just had sex with that girl – but both of the girl all want the boy’s girlfriend and that girl did another film and so my colleague told me you should work hard and you nee to better – so I’m very very nervous and so that’s about a week or longer and I work very hard and I even have no time to sleep or eat, but finish is good. That girl’s film had corrector and corrector, but my film passed at once. And this is a topic.

Corrected

Last year I edited a short film and this film had two parts and I did one of them and my colleague she had a “love enemy” – my colleague liked a boy but the boy liked another girl – he just had sex with that girl – but both of the girls were not the boy’s girlfriend and that girl did another film and so my colleague told me you should work hard and you need to better – so I was very very nervous and so that was for about a week or longer and I worked very hard and I even had no time to sleep or eat, but the result was  good. That girl’s film had to be corrected twice but my film passed right away / the second time. And this is a topic.