F2F Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Describe a meal prepared in the show, or maybe something about how the chef lost her job.

Vocabulary

Noun – a person, place, or thing

Spirit – the part of a person that isn’t physical, their energy
e.g. He has a very free spirit.

Structure – the order of something, the way the pieces are put together
e.g. The structure of this building is made of metal, and is very strong.
e.g. I would like you to make a summary that shows the structure of your book.

Violation – when someone doesn’t follow a rule
e.g. The health code (the rules on keeping public places clean) says that selling expired food is a violation.

Expire – for food to get so old that you can’t eat it anymore because it wouldn’t be safe
e.g. In Chengdu, a school got in trouble for serving expired food.

Majority – the larger part of group; most
e.g. The way that I say “expiry” is not the way the majority of people would say it.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/expiry
Minority – the smaller part of a group
Plurality – the largest group if no group is more than 50%

Professional – people who have authority in a topic and act in a way that shows it.
e.g. He was a very professional cook / chef.
e.g. He is a professional in the culinary industry.
Culinary – related to cooking

Budget – a plan for how much money you want or are able to spend in some period of time
e.g. This month we don’t as much money, so we are going to need to cut our budget for eating out in restaurants.
e.g. Now that we are buying a house, we will need to write a budget to manage our money more carefully.
e.g. The Japanese schools have a tight budget, and so they have to work hard to stay within that budget.
— With “budget,” “tight” means “small.”

Grammar

You are smaller than me  – you are younger than me
— size vs. age

Subject + verb + object + (how, when, where, etc.)

Three-star – I think that this is not “three-stars” because it is an adjective describing the level of quality, not telling us how stars there are (not literal)

I have Japanese series. Maybe this series is about the food for the students. I think the Japanese food is very safety, and their spring can encourage other people to do working hard. Do you know, there is a news recently that, in China, a school in Chengdu province happened safety problem? Their food for the children were found not safety, beyond the ___. Do you know the package of the food must be eat before last month, but the food in that news beyond that month.

I have been watching a Japanese TV series. Maybe this series is about the food for the students / school lunches / the food served at schools. I think the Japanese food is very safe, and their example / hardworking spirit can encourage other people to do work hard. Do you know, there was a piece of news / news article / some news recently that, in China, a school in Chengdu province, happened there was a safety problem / violation / public health problem? The food for the children were found to be unsafe / not to be safe not safety. It was unsafe because it was beyond the expiration / expiry date. Do you know: the package of the food must be eaten before the end of last month, but the food in that news piece / that news article / the news was beyond that month.