Online Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

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Yesterday I had dinner with my friends. During the dinner, one of my friends mentioned his son’s weekend life: He gets up at 6:30am and reads English article for about 1 hour, from 7:30am-8am, it is time for breakfast, after that, he goes to tennis school for tennis training till 12pm and returns to home to have lunch and take a short nap. At about 2pm, take the piano lesson for 2 hours and change to drawing lesson which is from 4pm to 6pm, and go for swimming for about 1 hour, then have dinner with family. After dinner, he must take online English course for 1 hour, and this is the end of his learning. He can play electronic games or watch TV for 1 hour, at about 10pm, take a shower and go to sleep. It shocked me when I heard this, I asked my friend whether his son could finish all of them, was he happy for that? My friend sighed and replied me: Of course he didn’t like it, but he had already get used to that and accepted because most of his classmates were living almost the same life. His answer got me thinking: Their lives are pretty stressful, although they could learn a lot, they miss the joy of childhood. Is it right or wrong？

Yesterday I had dinner with my friends. During the dinner, one of my friends mentioned his son’s weekend life: He gets up at 6:30am and reads English articles for about 1 hour, from 7:30am-8am it is time for breakfast, after that, he goes to tennis school for tennis training till 12pm / midday and returns / goes back to home to have lunch and take a short nap. At about 2pm, he takes a piano lesson for 2 hours and then moves on to a drawing lesson which is from 4pm to 6pm, and goes for swimming / goes for a swimming class for about 1 hour, then has dinner with family. After dinner, he must take an online English class for 1 hour, and this is the end of his day of learning. He can play games / computer games or watch TV for 1 hour, at about 10pm, take a shower and go to sleep. It shocked me when I heard this, so I asked my friend whether his son could finish all of them, and whether he enjoys it? My friend sighed and replied to me: Of course he doesn’t like it, but he had already gotten used to that and accepted it because most of his classmates were living almost the same life. His answer got me thinking: Their lives are pretty stressful, because / and although they could learn a lot, they miss the joy of childhood. Is it right or wrong？

Vocabulary

when they have no kids we can date a lot – before they had kids we could go out / hang out / spend time together a lot

they don’t want to fall behind

all rounder – a person who is good at many things / balanced
eg. I want my kid to be an all-rounder

Grammar

they can do some other else which they want – they can do something else / do some other things that they want to do

I will be back home / I will go back home

Come back here / Go back there 

share a story to you – share a story with you

at that time not too much flute classes – at that time there were not too many flute classes / we didn’t have the option of having flute classes