F2F Class Notes (Nicholas) [W]

Hi Whitney, can you correct her writing below? 🙂 You can also continue our conversation on “identity” if Sierra wishes! 🙂

Original

I love food,so i am always attracted to the food articles or videos especially those videos which teach people how to make a meal in our SE Wechat account. Although I’m not good at cooking, I loving watching these videos which can make me relax and let me image the taste of delicious food especially when I was in the time of dieting for losing weight. Also if the process is not complicated, I’m going to try it.

Another video impresses me a lot which shows a group of women wear the same outfits in different size.These girls have completely different figues,and many of them have never tried this type of clothing before.But they look confident and the suits really suit many of them.I am not confident of my thick curs and nearly try short skirt.I think I should show positive attitude to my figure

Pronunciation

word / world

sink / think

Vocabulary

identity / how I think about myself and how society views me

identity issues / problems when I was learning about and thinking about my identity

racism / racist / 种族主义 / I am making a poor judgement on someone because they are part of a certain race of people

e.g. This is racist. That’s racist behavior. (ADJ)

e.g. I am a racist. He is a racist. They are a racist society.  (NOUN)

e.g That is racism. Racism is a big problem in America or China. (NOUN)

prejudice / 偏见 / I am making a poor judgement on someone, when I don’t know them personally

e.g. Many people in Shanghai are prejudiced towards people from northern Jiangsu.

e.g. I am prejudiced towards black people.

e.g. All racism is prejudice, but not all prejudice is racism.

e.g. I’m prejudiced towards fat people.

stereotype / something that may be true for most people, but not true for all people / it’s negative characteristic / VERB

e.g. All Chinese people are good at math.

e.g. All black people steal things and are good at basketball.

e.g. All Japanese people like Pokemon.

e.g. I don’t stereotype people.

regionalism / I am prejudice towards people from another region

to be “too up front” with someone / to be too honest / too direct

e.g. Her comment was way too up front for me personally.

to instigate (verb) / 煽动 / instigator (noun)

e.g. Why did you fight Sierra? She instigated the argument! She is a little instigator! She’s always trying to find ways to make me angry or upset.

e.g. I don’t think it’s a good quality to be easily instigated.

e.g. Yes. I was instigated by your comments. Yes, I was triggered by your comments.

Grammar

I don’t find something special on me / There’s nothing special about me

Many my friends say that I’m an interesting girl / …of my friends…

the most good characteristic on me is / My best characteristic 

I am not on purpose / I didn’t do it on purpose / I didn’t do it purposely / I didn’t mean to…

I just funny you / I’m just joking with you / I’m just kidding around