Online Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Write about your favourite hotpot meal – what meat, what vegetables and what sauce?

Try to make your sentences longer: use conjunctions (连词) + commas (逗号)

Today I introduce my favourite sports.
My favourite sports are billiard and running. I have to run 5 more times a week. when I am running. I have to wear sports clothes.sports shoes. earphones and take my mobile phone. because I like listening music and watching movies when I am running. I think it’s important to do sports for everyone. sports is healthy for everyone.
I like playing billiards and watching snooker competition. I like billiards since I was16.so now I am a little good billiards player. I often wearing casual clothes to play billiards. I hardly ever wearing formal clothes except party. I have to wear formal clothes when I need to have party.
when I was in China. I often played billiards with my friends. I really like billiards. it’s very strange. I like playing billiards. but I don’t like watching billiards competition. I don’t like playing snooker. but I like watching snooker competition. maybe snooker is so hard for me. it’s said that. snooker is more professional.

Today I introduce my favourite sports.
My favourite sports are billiards and running. I have to run 5 or more times a week / I have to run at least 5 times week / I have to run 5 times every week at least. When I am running/ When I run, I have to wear sports clothes, sports shoes, earphones and take my mobile phone, because I like listening to music and watching movies when I am running. I think it’s important to do sports for everyone. Sports is healthy for everyone / I think sports is so healthy / it’s such a healthy thing for all of us to do.
I like playing billiards and watching snooker competition. I have liked / I have been into / I have been playing billiards since I was 16. So now I am a little good at billiards player / I am a pretty good pool player / I am a decent pool player. I often wear casual clothes to play billiards and I hardly ever wear formal clothes except at parties. I have to wear formal clothes when I need to have parties.
When I was in China, I often played billiards with my friends. I really like billiards however it’s very strange because I like playing billiards, but I don’t like watching billiards competition. I don’t like playing snooker, but I like watching it in competitions / watching it on TV. Maybe because it is so hard for me. It’s said that snooker is more professional than billiards.

Vocabulary

you can’t drive there / there are no cars there 

I like / I really like / I love / I’m into / I’m a big fan of 

but = however
because = as / since
so = therefore

Can you wait for me for 30 seconds – just a moment / just a second / hold on a moment / sorry, hold on 30 seconds 

I went to the toilet / I had to pee / I need to pee 

I went to the toilet / I need to poo 

Quality – 质量 – “kwality”
eg. I think the quality of the food at haidilao is really good
eg2. iPhone’s are high quality / iPhone’s have really good quality

fresh – xin xian
eg. the food is very fresh

beef / shrimp / tripe (meat from inside a cow / cow stomach) / duck blood 

I’m not used to it – bu xi guan
I haven’t got used to it – mei you xi guan

foreigners don’t eat blood

Grammar

I have no parties / I didn’t go to any parties = 0
I went to 1 party = 1 
I went to 2 parties = 2

I am good at speaking English
I am good at English
I am good at pool but Jesse is not good at pool

I think haidilao service is good and the food and the flavor I think – I think the service at haidilao is good, and the food and flavor are also very good.