Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Focus on: 

verb – “what time is this verb talking about?”
noun – “how many?” and “which one?”

Yesterday I learned a new word which is called “ghosting” during the dinner with my friends. The word had added into Oxford dictionary in 2018, and from the dictionary you can find the expression of the word which means: Suddenly cut off all communications and terminate relationship with somebody without any explanation. And we have talked whether we had met such case in our life, it was quite fun that everyone experienced that, and the main symptoms was: we met a new friend and added social contents to each other, and we talked a lot through the social media after the gathering, but one day, he/ she didn’t reply and disappear. Also another example was that we had some chatting group with many people, one day you would find someone left the group himself/herself and from that on the guy didn’t contact anyone of the group. And we have discussed why the “ghosting” happened in our life, and found that nowadays, we lived in a pervasive society because of social media, and sometimes you would choose escape and keep yourself alone. Also you can ask yourself, “ Am I a ghosting?” Did I do something like a ghosting, maybe your answer is “ yes” !

Yesterday I learned a new word which is called “ghosting” during a dinner with my friends. The word had been added / it has been added into the Oxford dictionary in 2018, and from the dictionary you can see that it means: Suddenly cut off all communications and terminate the relationship with somebody without any explanation. And we have talked about whether we had met such situations in our lives, and it was quite fun that everyone had experienced that, and the main circumstances were: we met a new friend and added each other / and we added each other’s contact, and we talked a lot through the social media after the gathering, but one day, they didn’t reply and just disappeared. Also another example was that we had some (chat) groups with many people, but one day you would find someone had left the group themselves and from then on they didn’t contact anyone of the group. And we have discussed why the “ghosting” happens in our lives, and found that nowadays, we live in a pervasive society because of social media, and sometimes you would choose to escape and keep yourself alone. Also you can ask yourself, “Am I someone who ghosts others?” Have I done something like a ghosting? maybe your answer is “ yes” !

Grammar

verb – “what time is this verb talking about?”
noun – “how many?” and “which one?”

I don’t like it too – I don’t like it either

my Canada friend – My Canadian friend 

Vocabulary

situation – qing kuang – general
eg. the situation is that I’m in a restaurant with friends
circumstance – the details of a situation
eg. the circumstances are that i’m in a restaurant with friends from school and we’re sitting across from each other, discussing things…

mandarin – small orange

display – decoration
eg. we will put up our CNY decoration before the start of CNY

hide my moments from them
block – totally stop them from contacting you ever

Ghosting — when someone cuts off all communication without explanation — extends to all things, it seems. Most of us think about it in the context of digital departure: a friend not responding to a text, or worse, a lover, but it happens across all social circumstances and it’s tied to the way we view the world.

unuseful groups – useless groups 

uneffective – ineffective