Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Homework

Write about your family – use some of the words from today. OR, choose some words from your app and use them in a story (choose some words you like, you think are related to your life)

Pronunciation

I am good
He is good
I am nice
I am bad
My wife is beautiful

I am good but it is cold
I yam gud buddidiz cold

she is beautiful but she is short
sheeyiz beautiful bu sheeyiz short 

I met my staff at 2 o’clock to 5 o’clock
I mehmy staff a too wohclock tah faivaclock

my staff is very tall and is very strong
I have a staff who is very tall

he is a serious worker / he is serious at work which is good
he yiz serioussssawork whichhizz goo

strength – strehhh nggg thhh
strange – strayyyy nnngg

Speaking exercise

is that good?

she’s really good

Why do you have to go to work today?

I have some things which / that I need to talk with my employees about.

for example? can you give me some example of some of the words?

barefoot is a strange word so it’s hard to remember

strange = qi guai
weird = qi guai

it takes me about 5 minutes to walk to the sea / beach

you can’t be with him now, how does it feel?
I can’t be with him now, so I feel bad

I like coffee
I will like coffee
I am liking coffee 

I am happy
I will be happy
I am being happy 

I am angry
I will be angry
I am being angry

I am with you
I will be with you
I am being with you 

I run
I will run
I am running

many boys are like that – xiang
many boys like that – xi huan

Vocabulary

youngest son 

describe – xing rong (v)
description – xing rong (n)

simple – jian dan

easy – rong yi

I have 2 siblings, including 1 twin brother and an older brother. My twin brother has 2 kids, and my older brother has 3 kids.

themselves 
eg. they are doing things by themselves

independent – people who can do things by themselves
eg. my kids are very independent

primary school / elementary school – xiao xue

marks – cheng ji / fen shu
eg. their marks are not very good