F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)

Next class please correct Jason’s writing homework.

Maybe we can talk about Osaka the half black Japanese tennis star!

Grammar

we wanted to go during a time that was less crowded

until to 1560 / until 1560

I wanted to play some game like Fifa / I wanted to play some games like Fifa / I wanted to play a game like Fifa

win another people / defeat other people / beat other people

I not very like Japan / I don’t like Japan very much

I respect their spirit in every way / I respect their spirit in many respects

we don’t have a good environment to affect each other / the atmosphere here doesn’t allow us to change

Vocabulary

they go back and forth frequently

to be biased / 偏

e.g. Chinese people usually like Chinese food best, perhaps they are a bit biased.

e.g. Don’t you think my daughter is the most beautiful girl in the world? Well of course you think this — she’s your daughter! You are biased.

to be objective / the opposite of bias – this means you put aside your biases and you just speak the truth even if it’s not good for you

e.g. Objectively speaking, Japan has a very civilized culture.

Warring State Period / 战国时代

“it brings me back…”

e.g. When I play that video game it brings me back to my middle school days.

civilized / 文明

“they are just this way…” / maybe this is their nature and you can’t change it

e.g. It was hard for me to believe that Chinese people didn’t queue in line…maybe they are just this way.

e.g. I was very angry at my daughter because she won’t listen to me she wants to try things her self…maybe this is just the way she is.

high culture / great art, architecture, sculpture

honest living / a real job that isn’t illegal work

budge the line / cut the line 

Pronunciation

civilized / SIV-I-LIZE