Online Class Notes (Jesse) [R / S]

Next Class Focus

Review the words from today and focus on using “to” between 2 verbs in your speaking. Eg. I want TO eat McDonalds. And, remember past tense!

Grammar

I know what is thatI know what that is 

Reading

Jason looked at his watch. It was time for his favorite TV show. He turned on the TV. He sat down in his chair. But then he heard his dog. His dog was scratching at the door. Oh, no, Jason thought. The dog wanted to go out. The dog had to go to the bathroom. If he lived in a house, he could let the dog go out the door and into the yard. But he lived in an apartment. He didn’t have a yard. He had to take the dog for a walk. But if he took the dog for a walk, he would miss his favorite TV show. The dog scratched at the door again. Jason turned off the TV.

scratch – nao yang

thought – the past of “think”

heard – the past of “hear”

Jackie loves the news. She listens to the news on the radio. She watches the news on TV. She reads the news in the newspaper. She reads the news in magazines. She loves the news because it is always new. It is always fresh. It is always interesting. There is news every day. There is news in every country. There is news in every state. There is news in every city. Everyone all over the world talks about the news every day. But Jackie has a question about the news. Why is the news usually bad? Why isn’t the news usually good? No one knows the answer.

radio – guang bo

magazine – za zhi

state – a large part of a country

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.

healthy – jian kang

medicine – yao

cabinet – chu gui / yao gui

aspirin – medicine for pain

Speaking exercise

Mr Bean and teddy goes to the park to had a picnic and maybe they are happy but Mr Bean saw a kite. The kite look like a bird and there is a boy playing with a plane, and a plane is fly, fly and fly and then the birds is scary and teddy’s head is not good. I think Mr Bean is angry. His teddy head hurt and the boy’s laugh and Mr Bean is angry and he put up his sleeves and wants to kill the boy. The dad is strong and Mr Bean is afraid. Maybe her dad want to kill Mr Bean so Mr Bean will went to the water because he wants boy’s dad not think Mr Bean want kill the boy.

Mr Bean and teddy went to the park to have a picnic and maybe they were happy but Mr Bean saw a kite. The kite looked like a bird and there was a boy playing with a plane, and the plane was flying around and then the birds were afraid / scared and the plane hit Teddy’s head and hurt it. I think Mr Bean was angry. His teddy‘s head was hurt and the boy‘s laughed and Mr Bean was angry and he rolled up / pushed up his sleeves and wanted to kill the boy. The dad was so strong and Mr Bean was afraid. Maybe his dad wanted to kill Mr Bean so Mr Bean went to the water because he wanted the boy’s dad to not think Mr Bean wanted to kill the boy.