F2F Class Notes (Raph)[S]

Write a short story in the past tense. Try to use the words you’ve learned today.

Vocabulary

Intrigue (v): 1-  to interest someone a lot, especially by being strange, unusual, or mysterious:
E.g.: Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

End up (v): 1-  to finally be in a particular place or situation:
E.g.: They’re traveling across Europe by train and are planning to end up in Moscow.
E.g.: Much of this meat will probably end up as dog food.
E.g.: She’ll end up penniless if she continues to spend like that.

Penniless (adj): 1- having no money.
E.g.: She fell in love with a penniless artist.

Quit (n): 1- to stop doing something or leave a job or a place.
E.g.: Would you quit your job if you inherited lots of money?

Grammar

If I have time enough – If I have enough time

Shanghai is not that we thought. – Shanghai is not what we thought.

There is not training centers. There are no training centers.

Today I’ve got up at 8:30 in the morning and I’ve checked my mobile phone to see if my mom sent me a message tonight. After that, I’ve gone to have breakfast, I have spoken with my friend, she hustled me to go to the fake market, so I met her at the subway station, we have gone to the fake market in Pudong. After some shopping, we haven’t bought a lot because all the shopping assistants were not accepting any bargaining. So we decided to go have lunch with another friends. We have taken the subway, we have gone to West Nanjing and we have lunch in a big terrace with a good weather.

Today I got up at 8:30 in the morning and checked my mobile phone to see if my mom had sent me a message during the night. After that, I had breakfast and spoke with my friend, who hustled me to go to the fake market. I met her at the subway station, and we went to the fake market in Pudong, but we ended up not buying a lot because the shopping assistants were not accepting any bargaining. After that we decided to go have lunch with other friends, so we  took the subway, went to West Nanjing and we had lunch at a big terrace, where we were able to enjoy the good weather.