Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Pronunciation

Avatar – “av va tar” 

Vocabulary

illustrator (draws pictures) sb who does some art for a book, movie…  (animator for films)

investor / contributor – sb who pays money to a company / for a project / exhibition

feels – fruit peel

strain – a type / variety of something like a virus / medicine / plants

liquid – like water, juice etc
eg. ice becomes liquid when it gets too hot

solid < > liquid 

herbs – yao cai
eg. I put herbs on my pizza

how much space / how big an area / how big a space you have to use for growing

sprout – when seeds start to open and the baby plant grows out (named “Jessica”)

I go to a school that my friend studies at.

Speaking exercise

almost 1 month ago I thought I had a sunny balcony but we just using it for drying clothes – that’s too waste so I decide to grow something, maybe flowers, or vegetables and then I bought some soil and the stuff from taobao, like the boxes can put the soil inside and you can grow some vegetables in it. Also, I bought some waste from taobao. I start to grow some vegetables and flowers on my balcony a week ago. Only 3 days the seed is coming up / out / is sprouting. When I’m seeing it makes me so happy. I can do it well! I can do something useful.

almost 1 month ago I thought I have a sunny balcony but we are just using it for drying clothes which is a big waste so I decided to grow something, maybe flowers, or vegetables and then I bought some soil and some stuff from taobao, like the boxes which you can put the soil inside / like boxes for the soil and vegetables to grow in. Also, I bought some seeds from taobao and then I started to grow some vegetables and flowers on my balcony a week ago. After only 3 days the seed started sprouting. When I’m looking at it / when I see it, it makes me so happy. I can do it well! I can do something useful.