F2F Class Notes (Nick)

Review your vocabulary!

Review vocabulary and sentence structures from last class:
How to talk about injuries.
How to talk about traveling.

Vocabulary

同事 – colleague – someone you work with

Hurt – to get an injury
e.g. Yolanda hurt her

Spine – the bones in your back, from your butt to your neck
Vertebra – each bone in your spine is called a vertebra

Trampoline – something you can jump on

Foreigner/Foreign – noun and adjective
e.g. There were lots of foreigners there.
e.g. There were lots of foreign kids there.

Sprain – to hurt the things that connect your body parts
Strain – to hurt your muscles

Fall over – to be standing or sitting and then accidentally be on the ground
Flip over – to put something upside-down, or right-side up

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

East, South, West, North – 东南西北

Rise – to come up, or get up
Set – to put down, for the Sun to go away
e.g. The Sun rises in the morning, and sets at night.
e.g. He rises at six every morning (he gets up)
e.g. He set the book on the table (he put it there)

Island – land surrounded by water
e.g. Gulangyu is a famous island near Xiamen.

Together – 一起

Grammar

I go to here too early – I usually arrive/come too early
— The same as Chinese 去，来

My before colleagues – my colleagues from my last job

我翻过去了 – I flipped over, (and my body hurt the next day)

Xiamen is south of Shanghai – 厦门在上海南边

太阳东边升起，西边落下 – the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West

There is a lot of good food

How will you get there? (How will you travel? By plane? By train?)
We will travel by plane.

Pronunciation

Colleague – ka – leeg

Foreigner – four – en – er

Island – I – land