F2F Class Notes (Nicholas) [W]

Review prepositions, prepositional phrases and who you can eliminate them to check grammar.

Tell me about your experience in school with teachers…do you feel like you learned a lot throughout school, perhaps even in college? Or did you learn more on your own through your own studies or just through your own life experiences? What do you think is more important: life experience or book knowledge?

Past two years, China government published second child policy to encourage young couples to have their babies.
During Chinese new year, many parents in the family they push and encourage which own only one baby’s couples to own their second baby.

In the past two years, the Chinese govt/China’s govt enacted the second child policy to encourage young couples to have more babies. During CNY, many parents in the family push and encourage couples who only have one baby, to have another baby.

Besides this, the relatives are good at push age between 20-30 years old adult to find a people who is the marriage object. If your age is older than 25, I’m afraid your ears will be getting hurt. There are many suggestion words around you. Like, “You need to lower your standards, otherwise good girl will be pick up by other people.”

Besides this, relatives are really good at pushing people between the ages of 20-30 to find someone to marry. If you are older than 25, I’m afraid your ears will bleed. You will hear many suggestions such as: “you need to lower you standards, otherwise all the good girls will be chosen/picked up by other people.”

Grammar

maybe first one / well first off, perhaps they… / well firstly I think…

but in my age / but at my age

our government is not too rich to take care of everybody / our gov’t isn’t rich enough to care for everyone

—e.g. Why can’t you buy 10 iPhone XS? Well, because I’m not rich enough.

the incomes are all on my husband / than my husband will be the only breadwinner

you no need to think about income / it’s not necessary to think about income / you don’t need to think about income

your income need to spend time on your older life / you will need to spend your income in your older age

supposed to developing / supposed to develop

If you use the word TO, don’t end your verb in ING

many news / many news stories / I have been hearing lots of news about this…

and my husband with me at that time / and my husband was with me at that time

but now when I understand my father’s idea / understood / but when I heard my father’s idea / but when I learned my father’s idea

Vocabulary

compulsory / something that you must do

e.g. In the USA, going to school is compulsory eating you must do it, it’s illegal not to go to school.

“Who puts the bread on the table” / who makes the money for the family

breadwinner / is the person who goes to work and makes the money for the family

a well-rounded person / a person who has experiences with many different things and can do many different things, they aren’t good at only one thing / to be well-rounded

decide 决定

nursing home / retirement home / retirement community

it’s a hard job / [it’s a difficult task]

baby daddies / baby daddy / who is the child’s father

baby momma / who is the child’s mother

ghetto / low-class, poor, uneducated, stupid decisions from people who are in poverty

ghetto / a neighborhood where only one ethnicity/race of people lived

mentality / way of thinking, a mindset, logic

“same thinking way” / “other thinking” /  [mentality] / [mindset] / [worldview]

a movement / is a way of thinking or style that is gaining in popularity, more and more people are joining this “movement” because they believe in the same ideas

e.g. Feminism in the USA is a very large and growing movement of women who believe they should get paid as much as men.

e.g. There is a growing movement in China of young people learning Western music styles.

maiden name / the original family name of the wife that she lost when she got married