Online Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Homework

Do some writing if you have time and keep focusing on using conjunctions and ask yourself “why do i need to use these conjunctions” – make sure there’s some logic you’re using

Next Class Focus

Correct this:

I just remember one thing in this tv show, the soldier likes that girl, that girl has a boyfriend. That soldier hurt her boyfriend. At the end the girl together with that soldier but the soldier is possessive and he hurt that girl and that girl’s mother, in the end that girl was something wrong with her brain. In the special years, in China. 

Speaking exercise

This week I watched a TV show. Yesterday I finished that tv show. I felt very sad because that tv show is about a sad love story so when I saw the end of that tv show I felt sad and unbelievable. I think that story is from the true life but I don’t want to accept this story. I felt I can’t breathe, I got a headache because of that TV show so I came out with my husband and saw some flowers around my house and told this story to my classmate. We talked about this TV show and also about this story. She know the author cause this author has a lot of books. He is very famous. When I was young I have saw this TV show but I didn’t understand that TV show. I just remember one thing in this tv show, the soldier likes that girl, that girl has a boyfriend. That soldier hurt her boyfriend. At the end the girl together with that soldier but the soldier is possessive and he hurt that girl and that girl’s mother, in the end that girl was something wrong with her brain. In the special years, in China.

This week I watched a TV show and yesterday I finished it / Yesterday I finished a TV show that I’ve been watching this week and I felt / which made me very sad because it is about a sad love story so when I saw the end of that tv show I felt sad and thought it was hard to believe . I think that story is based on a true story but I don’t want to accept this story / I don’t want to accept that it actually happened. I felt I couldn’t breathe, and I got a headache because of it so I came out with my husband and looked at some flowers around my house and told this story to my classmate / talked to my classmate about the story. She knows the author well cause this author has written a lot of books and is very famous. When I was young I have seen this TV show but I didn’t understand it. I just remember one thing in this tv show, the soldier likes that girl, that girl has a boyfriend. That soldier hurt her boyfriend. At the end the girl together with that soldier but the soldier is possessive and he hurt that girl and that girl’s mother, in the end that girl was something wrong with her brain. In the special years, in China. 

Grammar

remember:English makes you guess which one, Chinese says it specifically
eg. I went to the cafe and had a drink = I went to that starbucks cafe and I drank something

and – continue the topic / point
eg. I have a coffee and I want to drink it – both about coffee
eg2. I like coffee and I love tea – both about things you like
eg3. I like coffee and you do too – both about things we like 
eg4. I went to work and then I went home – both things you did 

this period time this period of time 

They fight to each otherthey fight each other / with each other 

Vocabulary

nervous breakdown – when someone has a big problem mentally / emotionally and change because of it
eg. he had a nervous breakdown