Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Homework

practice the reading from the video

Next Class Focus

SVO sentences – simple sentences
connection pronuniciation

Grammar

Jesse is really nice to me – the way he treats me
His class is good for me – affect

I was working all the day – I was working all day 

i practice English 3-4 hours a week / every week

Vocabulary

I’m more free than usual / I’m quite free

most people / most of the people at my company

whatever / any – sui bian
eg. we can wear whatever / any clothes we want

formal (zheng shi) < > casual (sui yi)
eg. we wear casual clothes every day
eg2. we don’t need to wear formal clothes

helpful / useful – you yong
eg. this class was very helpful for me

we have class – women you ke
we start class – shang ke!
we finish class – xia ke le!
eg. we have finished class = women yi jing xia ke le

Reading

Lois has a headache. The headache started one hour ago. She doesn’t know why she has a headache. She never gets headaches. She never gets sick. Lois is a healthy woman. Where did her headache come from? Was it something she ate? Was it something she drank? She doesn’t know. She wants her headache to go away. She does not like to take medicine. But her head hurts so much. She went into her bathroom. She opened the medicine cabinet. She found some aspirin. She took two aspirin with a glass of water. Maybe the aspirin will help her headache go away.

Donna loved her husband. Her husband loved Donna. They were in love with each other. She wanted to (she wanneh teh) give him a birthday present. He was going to be 40 years old next week. She wondered what to give him. Should she give him a watch? Should she give him a sweater? Should she give him a new guitar? What should she give him? She asked him what he wanted for his birthday. He said he didn’t want anything for his birthday. “Oh, you must want something!” she said. “You’re right,” he said. “I want your love forever.”