F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)

What would a Chinese wife do if she found out her husband had a mistress? Is this practice common? Please write about this how marriage should or shouldn’t be modified? Do you agree with marriage? It is a good idea? What is your opinion of open relationships?

Vocabulary

fringe / opposite of the mainstream…one the very outside of what is acceptable.

e.g. Their thought represents the fringe of relationship advice.

e.g. You’re more in the mainstream and not on the fringe.

monogamy / monogamous relationship / one man for one woman, forever

polygamy  / one man many women

polyandry / one woman many men

monotheism / a religion with one God

e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Muslims/Islam

polytheism / a religion with many Gods

e.g. Buddhism, Hinduism

dude / man

chick / girl

side chick / xiao san

mistress / xiao san, a moral formal word

to extort / extortion / you will do this for me or I will do something bad to you; threaten.

e.g. You’re gonna give me 5000 RMB or I will release these texts to your wife.

sext or sexting / texting someone inappropriate or sexual mesages

e.g. In America, all the high school students have cell phones, and many get in trouble because the teachers or parents find out that they are using their phones for sexting! …or to sext their friends.

to blackmail someone / 敲诈

e.g. Many politicians need to be careful who they talk to because maybe these people can use their conversations or texts as blackmail. If you have embarrassing information on me, you could try and blackmail me.

ground zero / the source of a bad event, or exactly where a bad event took place

e.g. Manhattan in ground zero for 9/11.

e.g. When we asked people in the company who was spreading all fo the rumors, everything came back to Lily – she seemed to be ground zero for these rumors.

e.g. This is ground zero. Ground zero for what? Oh for the argument with my wife. This is where it happened.

to pique / piqued / is to excite, to get me really interested to the point or the “peak” where I MUST KNOW! I’m very curious now! To do something that makes someone else interested.

e.g. She really piqued my interest.

Grammar

I don’t like doing many social / I don’t like spending a lot of time on social media