Online Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Vocabulary

close out / close off last month – to finish / end last month

more better – better

pull up (shoulders, arms, back pulling your whole body up/ push up (upper body pushing up) / sit up (for your stomach muscles)

recess – to take a short break (school / meeting / event / court case)
eg. during recess kids often play and eat a little

science – ke xue

analogy (a story to help explain sth) / metaphor (you are sth) / simile (do sth like sth)
eg. Metaphor: You are a pig = you eat like a pig / you look like a pig / you act like a pig (simile)

toast – short speech to congratulate

past mistakes – mistakes made in the past

i don’t want to make the same mistakes twice / you should learn from your mistakes 

keep track / to track sth – make a record
eg. we keep track of the amount that we spend and earn every month

railing 
eg. Luke gets his head stuck in the railing.

Grammar

for sometimes – sometimes

for avoid past mistakes – to avoid past mistakes

Claire & Gloria

one day Claire received a call from a school and the teacher said her son Luke, was fighting with his classmate / school mate and he need to go to the school and when she arrived the school she found that the people Luke fight with is Manny. The teacher felt weird about their relationship and he said it was not a big thing it’s just a… and Claire and Gloria say “yes” at the same time and when they come back to their home both Claire and Gloria have some emotion to each other. Gloria think Claire is don’t like her and Claire think Gloria think her son was a weird son.

one day Claire received a call from her son’s / the school and the teacher said her son Luke, was fighting with his classmate / school mate and she needed to go to the school and when she arrived at the school, she found that the person / kid / student Luke fought with was Manny. The teacher felt weird about their relationship / he felt their relationship was weird and he said it was not a big thing it was just a bit of mischief / it was a bit naughty and Claire and Gloria said “yes” at the same time and when they got back home both Claire and Gloria were a little emotional. Gloria thought Claire doesn’t like her and Claire thought Gloria thinks her son was a weird kid.