F2F Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Vocabulary

Reservation – to book a room, a meeting, a mode of transportation.
e.g. We booked a reservation.

Calligraphy – artistic writing
e.g. In Vietnam they sometimes practice calligraphy with Chinese-style characters.

Grammar

At – usually refers to a very specific location
e.g. I am at Jing’an Temple.

In – to be surrounded by at least three sides of something (a corner, an open box)
Compare: I am in Jing’an district to above.
Remember to use it with the word “way”
e.g. In the way (something is between a person and what they want to see, get to), do it in this way

On – like with a road, it isn’t a specific place, so you are simply “on” it
Exception: where two roads meet, this forms a “point” which you are “at”

The – when you know which thing it is
e.g. We went to the hotel we had reserved a room at.
Just remember: the same as a phrase

A – when you don’t know
e.g. We didn’t know were at a different hotel (it doesn’t matter one, just that it wasn’t the hotel you booked)

Beach – beaches
When talking about something in general, use the plural

There was something fun we had. On the first night we arrived night. He sent us wrong hotel. We didn’t really check which hotel we are. The next day we really saw that it was different hotel. Pretty similar to Korean beach. The resort we stayed at. My boyfriend is an architect. Looks exactly the same as Chinese architecture.

Something fun happened to us. We arrived at night. He sent us to the wrong hotel. We didn’t really check which hotel we were at.

Pronunciation

Imperial – Im – pee – ree -al

Tomb – toom (silent “b”)