Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Homework

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

Vocabulary

doing lots of research online

the wind comes from which direction – fang xiang

you have to predict typhoons – to know when they will come

strong winds may damage buildings – make them break

theory / theoretical knowledge – ideas / concepts

practical knowledge – practice / doing things

authentic – honest / real / straight forward
eg. Jesse tries to always be authentic

find out = to learn some information
eg. I find out about many things by looking on the internet
eg2. Oh hey Jesse, I found out today that Judy is from Shanghai

find = zhao dao

star sign – xin zuo (Aries is Judy’s star sign)
eg. I don’t know what star sign Xing is

frugal – good / careful with money
eg. Xing is a little frugal

Grammar

I think of you / I have a cup of coffee
I think about you / I read a book about grammar

It’s Xing’s birthday. Xing really likes computer games. I went to the shops and I saw a computer game shop. It made me think of Xing (Xing came into my mind).

I wanted to decide on a present for Xing. So I thought about what Xing likes and then I decided to buy him a computer game. (I thought of all the details about him, including what he likes, what his personality is, what his hobbies are…)

an apple – 1
another girl – 1

I asked her if she wants to raise some animals and do a vegetables garden

we don’t kill them ourselves = someone else does

Speaking exercise

the first thingsthat you have to find, is a place, so where’s the place and you need to find out the google map and you can see the geographic and think of it. And you have to design it based on the sessions which we learned last week. Me my friend and another girls we made a group and my friend she has an island so we decide to design her island.

the first thingsthat you have to find, is a place, so where’s the place and you need to find the place on google maps and you can see the geography of it and think about it. And you have to design it based on the sessions which we learned last week. Me my friend, another girls and I we made a group and my friend she has an island so we decided to design her island.