Online Class Notes (Dimple)

Vocabulary

figured: guesses (I figured = I knew)

opera 歌剧

handsome: good-looking

opera singer 歌剧演员

particular 特别的,独特的

sophomore 二年级的 (for both high school and college)

senior: elder, 高级的,年长的,高三生,大四生

banned 禁止的

practice 练习

proficiency 熟练度 (proficiency level)

提高熟练度 bring up the proficiency level

assassin 刺客

Speaking exercise

I slept until eleven o’clock. (Q: Did you have lunch today?) No, I’m just not hungry. (Q: Why do you always take online classes?) Because I don’t want to go outside, I’m too lazy. (Q: do you have a best friend at school? tell me what’s she/he like?) She likes painting because she likes it to paint. But And she likes opera is because she likes one particular very handsome opera singer. (Q: how did you guys become friends?) I forget. I just started talk to her and somehow we became friends. Maybe it’s because we all like handsome boys. There’s one boy in the class at school was that’s very handsome. But he’s a sophomore. But in our class, don’t have any handsome there’s no one handsome.

Writing exercise

topic: should we care about TikTok and the fact that it might be banned?

original:

I think America don’t need to ban the TikTok because everyone on Tiktok is very happy. And I think if the America people like play the TikTok, I think they can get pleasure from it.

revised:

I think the American government doesn’t need to ban the Tiktok because everyone on it is very happy. And if the Americans like to use TikTok, then they will get pleasure from using it.