F2F Class Notes (Nick)

Write about your favorite snacks from when you were a kid in Hubei (or maybe even your favorite snacks now!)

Vocabulary

Trip – one time when you go away from some place (like home) and come back
e.g. I took a trip to Hunan with my girlfriend and her family.
e.g. I need to make a trip to the store today because I don’t have anything left to eat.
Travel – the verb for moving from one place to another, especially when they are far away
e.g. Tomorrow I travel to Hunan.

Fast / Instant Noodles – noodles that you only need to put hot water on in order to eat 泡面
e.g. I always buy a fast noodle bowl before taking a train.

Candy Bar – usually chocolate with some other things, like peanuts or rice

Pretzel – a type of fried bread with salt, sometimes soft and sometimes crunchy

e.g. This is a traditional soft pretzel with salt. It is pretty big! (maybe 15 or 18cm)

e.g. These are smaller, crunchy pretzels, also with salt. These are sold in just about every convenient store in the United States as a snack.

Yawn – 打哈欠
e.g. Every few minutes one of us yawns, and then the other yawns too!

Contagious – when something, like a disease or a yawn, moves from one person to another
e.g. When you have a cold you have to be careful not to share food, because it is contagious.
e.g. Yawns are contagious, because if one person yawns, so will other people.

Snack – something small that you eat between breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or just because it tastes good
e.g. My favorite snack is pretzels.

辣条 – Spicy Bean Curd / Spicy Strips – the first describes what it is made of, the second describes the shape

Tour Group – 旅游团

味道 – Taste / Flavor
e.g. In China you can food of many different flavors. In Shanghai, you can eat sweet food, and Hunan you can eat spicy food.
e.g. The taste of this tofu is not what I expected.

Tofu – 豆腐

Grammar

It is a place at Hunan – in
— “In” is for big places; “on” is for long or flat places; “at” is for small places, like a point

When you don’t sleep better – well
— “Better” is used to compare; “well” is used to describe how something is or how someone does something (adverb)
e.g. This restaurant is better than that one, because the food is tastier.
e.g. How are you? I am doing well!
e.g. Wow! She speaks English very well!

Pronunciation

Contagious – kun – tay – jus

Pretzel – prets – ell (“t + s” is like pinyin “c”

Tour – start with a “u” sound with your lips rounded (making a circle) and then change to an “er” sound