Online Class Notes (Ally)[S/R]

Vocabulary

break=holidays=vacation: fang jia
ie. Mary is on break/holiday/vacation because school ended.

review: fu xi
ie. Mary needs to review before each math test.

refresh: shua xin
ie. I refreshed the we chat page.

owner: zhu ren
ie. Ally is the owner of this iPad.
ie. The dog’s owner was looking for him.

reward: jiang li
ie. Mary gets a reward every time she does well on a test.

afford: 买得起 <> can’t afford
ie. Even though Ally really wants to buy a new pair of Air Jordans, she can’t afford new shoes.

heal: zhi liao
ie. The injury (shang kou) healed perfectly.

punish: zheng fa (n) punishment
ie. Sometimes, Mary gets punished when she doesn’t do well in school.
ie. Sometimes, Mary gets a punishment when she doesn’t do well in school.

get a good test
do well on a test

…because I have class before this class. So it’s not much time to have a f2f class.
So there’s not enough time to have a f2f class./I didn’t have enough time for a f2f class.

1. People sometimes like to read stories of dogs very much. They think that dogs are much cleverer than cats, sheep, cows or other animals in their homes.

One of my close friends, Bob, has a very large police dog named Jack. Every Sunday afternoon, Bob and Jack have a walk in the park nearby. Jack likes these walks very much. One Sunday afternoon, I paid a visit to my friend. I stayed there for a long time and my friend and I had much more talk with each other than ever before. Soon it was time for them to take a walk in the park. We forgot that. Jack became worried about it. He walked around the room several times and then sat down in front of me and looked at me. But I still paid no attention to him. I went on talking with my friend. At last, Jack could not wait any longer. He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down in front of me again. But this time, he held my hat in his mouth. Suddenly, I understood what Jack meant and so did my friend.

2. The day was like any other day in his life, Tom walked past the shop on the street corner. He stopped to look at the front row of shoes, and he felt happy to see that the pair of shoes he wanted very much were still there. Looking down, he felt sorry for himself. He really wanted to have them for his birthday.

He sadly walked away and thought how to tell his mother about it. He knew she would give him anything he liked if she could. But he also knew very well she had little money. He decided not to go home at once, as he looked worried and his mother would notice  it. So he went to the park and sat on the grass. Then he saw a boy in a wheel chair . He noticed that the boy moved the wheel with his hands. Tom looked at him carefully and was surprised to see the boy have no feet. He looked at his own feet. “It’s much better to be without shoes than without feet, ” he thought. There was no reason for him to feel so sorry and sad. He sent away and smiled, thinking he was happier.

3. Peter was a small boy. He lived with his parents in a small house near some hills. The people there were all poor. One night it was very dry and windy.

When everybody was asleep, Peter suddenly heard some noise. It came out from the kitchen. He got up and walked to the kitchen. He found that the wood beside the stove was burning . There was no water tap in the house , so he could not put out the fire. He shouted loudly to wake up everyone in the house. Then he ran out of his house and knocked on the doors of many houses to wake the people up. They all left their houses quickly.

At last the fire was put out by the firemen. Many houses were burnt. But nobody was burnt in the fire.

Pronunciation

police – poll-leeees, not “please”

nearby – near+bye

meant – men+t

hill – not “heal”