Online Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Homework

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

Speaking exercise

i start to play the piano when i was a kid and now i have my students follow me playing the piano. when i was … it’s my mum’s dream to play the piano but she didn’t have the chance to play and she wanted me to complete her dream, but after i study university…. so I can bring up myself…. i don’t need to spend much time in teach.

i started to play the piano when i was a kid and now i have my students following me playing the piano / I have some students who follow me to learn piano. Before I was born it was my mum’s dream to play the piano but she didn’t have / get the chance to play and she wanted me to complete her dream / make her dream come true / she wanted to achieve this dream vicariously through me, but after i studied in university / after I started studying at university / after I became a university student / after I entered university…. so I can bring up myself / take care of myself / raise myself…. i don’t need to spend much time on teaching.

I usually buy them online not in shop and the brand i often buy is Valmon because Beijing is really dry so we need some product to make skin moist and we need at least 1 mask every day and we often open the air conditioning in the winter and summer. The wind blows wildly there. Clean water, because I get some acne so I buyd it. Buy a lot of things in double 11. Once box of mask can use for many months and buyd some beauty tool. When I come back, I was stay in fuzhou for 3 days and the government say you can’t go back. You can go back but you need to find a place to stay for 2 weeks.

I usually buy them online not / rather than / instead of in shops and the brand i often buy is Valmon because / since / as / due to the fact that Beijing is really / particularly / quite / pretty dry so we need some products to make skin moist / to moisturize / we need to buy moisturizer so we need at least 1 face mask every day and we often turn on the air conditioning in both the winter and summer. The wind blows wildly there / the wind is really strong there / it’s really windy. I bought some facial spray, because I had some acne so I bought it

. Buy a lot of things in double 11. Once box of mask can use for many months and buyd some beauty tool. When I come back, I was stay in fuzhou for 3 days and the government say you can’t go back. You can go back but you need to find a place to stay for 2 weeks. 

Vocabulary

facial spray
eg. I spray the water on my face

relationships / connections / contacts – guan xi
eg. I have lots of connections in BJ

moist / moisture / moisturize / moisturizer – wet
eg. the air is very dry so my skin is not moist at all, so I need moisturizer to add moisture to my skin

COVID-19Corona Virus Disease 2019 

contagious – a sickness (or laughter / yawning) that you can give to others
eg. the flu is very contagious but a headache is not contagious

isolation – quarantine – ge li
eg. I need to quarantine myself for 14 days

military hospital (army hospital)
air force – planes
navy – boats
army – land
rocket – artillery

lumbar puncture

Grammar

they can relieve themselves – they can feel relieved
they can relax themselves – they can relax 

how to sayhow do you say? 

Pronunciation

satisfactory – “sat tis fack tree”