Online Class Notes (Jesse) [R / W]

Homework

what is really special about your restaurant? (service, food, food quality, environment, location, choices). Tell me other things about your restaurant.

Reading

She offered her car to her brother. He said he would think about it. “Let me think about it,” he said. She called him up a week later. “Do you want my car for free?” she asked. He said, “I’m thinking about it.” She asked, “How long do you have to think about it?” He said he didn’t know. “Let me think about it some more,” he said. She called up a charity. She said, “Do you want my car for free?” The man at the charity said yes. She asked, “You don’t have to think about it?” He said, “No, I don’t have to think about it. Who has to think about a free car?” He picked up her car the next day.


Paula has cancer. She has six months to live. Her doctors cannot help her. No one can help her. She smoked (v) cigarettes (n) for 30 years. She did not want to stop smoking cigarettes. She liked to smoke cigarettes. The doctors told her to stop smoking many years ago. She didn’t listen to them. She didn’t listen to her parents. She didn’t listen to her children. She didn’t listen to her friends. Everyone told her to stop smoking. She told everyone to stop worrying about her. She would be fine, she told them. She still smokes every day. Why not, she asks.

Margaret made a fresh salad. She peeled a yellow banana. She peeled a red apple. She peeled a green cucumber. She peeled an orange carrot. She peeled a brown potato. She peeled a white onion. She peeled a white egg. She chopped everything up with a sharp knife. She chopped everything into little pieces. She used her sharp knife to chop up the banana, apple, cucumber, carrot, potato, onion, and egg. She chopped up a tomato. She put all the little pieces into a bowl. She opened a bottle of salad dressing. She poured salad dressing on her fresh salad.

Writing exercise

This women is kindly and generous,because she offered her car for her brother,but her brother thought about it for a long time. At last,this woman offered her car to the charity,because the man didn’t think about it and said Yes right away when she said”do you want my car for free”,so he picked up her car next day. if my sister give me a car for free,I will say Yes right away. I have a old sister who is friendly,she often gave me a lot of free toys when I was young. I love my sister and we talked online every week.

This woman is kind and generous, because she offered her car to her brother, but her brother thought about it for a long time. At last, she offered her car to a charity, because the man at the charity didn’t need to think about it, and just said yes right away when she said “do you want my car for free”, so he picked up her car the next day. If my sister gave me a car for free, I would say yes right away. I have a old sister who is friendly, and she often gave me a lot of free toys when I was young. I love my sister and we talk online every week.

Vocabulary

I spend a lot of time with my friends

3rd person – di san ren cheng

i change my houseI moved house / I moved / I moved to a new house – ban jia

it’s very tiring = it makes you tired

generous = giving
eg. she is very giving

my boss gave me a raise – more money

my friend will not be with me

he doesn’t listen to others / he doesn’t care about what other people say / he is stubborn (gu zhi) / he just listens to himself

peel (n) – the skin
peel (v) – to take off the skin

cucumber – huang gua

carrot – hu luo bo

chop – qie / duo

sharp – feng li

dressing – only for salad

ads / advertising – guang gao
eg. we will talk about advertising

make my own videos

yum cha – zao cha / dian xing

Grammar

If this happened to you, what would you do?
If I was rich, I would buy a big house.
If I was rich, I could (can) buy a house, but I would (will) buy 2 cars.