Online Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Homework

Look at some of your past notes and choose a few words that you haven’t used for a while – use them in some writing about a topic that lets you use the words

Pronunciation

8:30 – THIR dee
8:13 – thir DEEN

castle – “car sll”

Vocabulary

i watch some tv or book I watch some TV shows or read some books

the manor is passed down from generation to generation – sth that is a family business and has been for generations

everyone, but exclude me – but not including me (passive)
they excluded me = they actively didn’t let me do sth with them

i’m a weird people I’m a weird person / I’m weird / I’m a weirdo 

Grammar

in regards to 
regarding / about to
eg. Regarding your grammar, I think we can improve, but in regards to your vocabulary, it’s good enough

i took the trip to paris for maybe 3 – 5 timesI have been to paris maybe 3-5 times 

Writing exercise

I took a summer trip in France in the year of 2012, it was an amazing tour as I cater to my imagination. I went to see the exhibition in art galleries of Paris and also enjoyed the wine in some manors of Bordeaux. Bordeaux is a heaven for the wine fans because it is the biggest
home of wine with huge grape-growing area. Regarding to the online information, there are over 9000 wineries in Bordeaux which can produce over seven hundred million bottles of wine. In order to know more about the city, I booked a wine tour in one of the manors to explore the secret of the wine in Bordeaux. Actually, most of the manors are in family base, normally you can find a castle which is in French style with marble pillars, high ceiling,traditional mural , and a vineyard with grape area and a winery. and they can finish whole process of the wine production and selling: grape planting and harvesting in vineyard, complete wine fermentation, ripening and bottling in winery, selling the wine in castle. I booked a wine tour to experience all of them, it is interesting but not easy to deeply understand and judge which bottle is good.

I took a summer trip in France in the year of 2012, which was an amazing tour / and as good as I imagined / and lived up to my imagination. I went to see the exhibitions in many art galleries of Paris and also enjoyed the wine in some manors of Bordeaux which is a heaven for the wine fans because it is the biggest home of wine with huge amounts of fertile land for grape growing. Regarding to the online information, there are over 9000 wineries in Bordeaux which can produce over seven hundred million bottles of wine. In order to know / learn more about the city / get to know the city better, I booked a wine tour in one of the manors to explore the secrets of (the) wine in Bordeaux. Actually, most of the manors are run by families / are family owned, and normally you can find a castle which is in French style with marble pillars, high ceilings,traditional murals , and a vineyard with grape area and winery. and they can finish the whole process of the wine production and selling: grape planting and harvesting in the vineyard, complete wine fermentation, ripening and bottling in the winery, selling the wine in the castle. I booked a wine tour to experience all of them, which was interesting but not easy to deeply understand and judge which bottle is good.