Online Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

When I grow up, when I buy the book I always choose the great publisher and the great writer but when I young I was choose the beautiful cover and the listen very cools name but the article is bullshit.

When / After I had already grown up, when I bought books I always chose the great publishers and the great writers but when I was young I always chose the books that have beautiful covers and the book names that sound good but the articles were bullshit.

Vocabulary

looks good 
sounds good 

it’s a costly learning process

compensate – when a company / government gives money to say sorry for sth
eg. the government paid him 100,000 RMB as compensation

illness (n)
ill (adj)

earthquake – when the earth shakes
eg. there was an earthquake in Japan last week

1 wan – jia yi ge ling – 10 thousand
10 wan – jia yi ge ling – 100 thousand

peers – the people around me
eg. none of my peers are sick

how did it go? / did she tell you how it went? – zenme yang?

she was worried for nothing – she was worried but actually it was fine

study abroad – liu xue

Grammar

I have done – I have traveled to Japan = my situation now is I have already finished it
I had done – from another time in the past, it had already happened
eg. Today I have taught 2 students. Before I taught you, I had taught 1 student.

My familiar people haven’t infected so far – I don’t know anyone who has been infected / none of the people I know have been infected

I’m not to collection the Chinese version – I haven’t prepared the Chinese version 
I haven’t work to do – I don’t have work to do