F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)
Pronunciation
photo / FOE-TOE
photograph / FOE-TOE-GRAFF
photography / FUH-TAH-GRUH-FEE
Grammar
her and I / him and I / we / informal – friendly
she and I / he and I / formal
you and I / formal
you and me / informal
(the exhibition) it have two parts / it has two parts
Vocabulary
sold out / no more tickets are available
e.g. The show sold out in 3 hours!
e..g Can I buy a ticket? No sorry, the show is sold out.
e.g. John Legend played for a sold-out audience!
May I take a photo with you (formal) / Can I take a photo with you (informal) / Would you mind taking a photo with. me? (formal/informal)
e.g. Would you mind taking a photo for us?
e.g. How did you take this picture? I took it with an iPhone.
e.g. Take a picture of me
tequila 龙 舌 兰 酒
e.g. Normally you drink tequila shots with lime.
regret / 后悔
e.g. Every time I drink tequila I regret it. – verb
e.g. She got drunk, made bad decisions, and is now full of regret! – noun
“I’m a sucker for beautiful women / I’m a sucker for a good sale” / these things attract me very easily / these things can fool me very easily
e.g. I’m a sucker for love!
to fall in love
to have a fling / a short-lived, passionate relationship usually it’s over very quickly
e.g. Did you have a relationship with her? No, it was just a fling.
to hookup
e.g. Oh you like opera too? We should hookup then! (We should meetup)
e.g Oh do you see that girl? I hooked up with her my first week in Shanghai?
e.g. OMG did they hookup?
one-night-stand / you meet someone for the first time, you have sex on the first night, and then never speak again
e.g. Do you know Ashley? Yeah omg I know her; her and I had a one-night-stand.
“it screwed me up” /not a bad word – it confused me
e.g. We had 2 days off because of the holiday and I didn’t realize today was Friday – the holiday screwed me up.
e.g. Dee was drawing a picture and Nicholas moved the table and it screwed up Dee’s drawing. You screwed me up!
screw you / bad term – meaning “F you”
basically / this is a simple way of talking about it
e.g. What did you do last night? Basically I got drunk.
e.g. Are you a teacher in Shanghai? Well…basically.
basic / simple
e.g. People go shop at Uniqlo and H&M for basic clothing.
e.g. “buy your basics here at Uniqlo!”
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