Online Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

watch an episode of modern family (or another show) note down the vocabulary / sentences you can’t understand and discuss the episode and words next class.

Vocabulary

quarantine (sickness) / isolation (anything)

Corona Virus – COVID-19 – Corona Virus Disease 2019

vaccine (medicine) / vaccination (process / idea) – yi miao
eg. When I was a kid I got my vaccinations. They gave me the vaccines through a needle in my arm / shot

contagious – a sickness that can spread between people / animals
eg. the flu is very contagious but a headache is not contagious

symptom – the bad things you feel because of a sickness
eg. the symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, cough, and breathing difficulties

episode – qing jing ju
season – 1 years / 6 months of episodes of a tv show
eg. there are 22 episodes in season 10 of Modern Family

industry – hang ye

Grammar

spend so many time – so much time / a lot of time 

speaking is not a lot – I don’t speak much

it’s similar like Modern Family – it’s similar to 

the business of our company is bad. The business of February is just 5% sales compare with January, and my boss is considering if we can save the cost, including people / employee cost and other cost, something like… we just save 1,000,000 of rental for February but it just stands a little of the total.

the business of our company / our company’s business is bad. The business of February / February’s business is just 5% of sales compared with January, and my boss is considering if we can save the cost / considering the way to save costs, including people / employee costs and other costs, something like… we just save 1,000,000 of rental fees / costs for February but it just makes up a little of the total.

they are just 5% of sales when they have been compared with last month