Online Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Go to the website, read some of the articles, listen to them – and then next class tell me which ones you read, and we will talk about them.

If you have time: write about some of the articles.

Vocabulary

she’s considering the offer – she’s thinking about it and will decide later
eg. she is considering whether to take the job

headache – tou teng
eg. I have a headache

eat medicine – take medicine
eg. I take a lot of medicine when I’m sick

painkiller – zi tong yao

it is surrounded by sth
eg. I want to be surrounded by beautiful women and money and cars and houses

I want beautiful women to be all around me 

wet wipe – shi zhi jing

e-cigarette – dian zi yan

do you really like it? does it make you feel really good?
Yes, and I’m just used to it.

quit – to stop smoking

Grammar

good – better
big – bigger
small – smaller 
beautiful – more beautiful
old – older
lazy – lazier
boring – more boring
bored – more bored
tired – more tired

I go to drink coffee – 2 verbs, use “to”

Shanghai is in east China
Shanghai is in the east of China
Australia is south of China

I have a car that / which has a red door.
I have a car with a red door.

The car is really beautiful and cool / and fast / and I really like it
I have a car which is beautiful 

More than a decade ago, when I was a backpacker, I ofen to travel all over China and visit many interesting places.
In 2002, I went to a place in Baiyu County, which is north-west of Sichuan Province.
where the altitude is more than 3000 meters, which is a very lovely county，which is around by snow mountains and most of the residents are Tibetans. There are also many beautiful Tibetan temples which the roofs of the temples have gold light In the sunshine. I stayed in a clean and warm hostel, but I didn’t have a bathroom, and I couldn’t take a hot shower.
I lived in Baiyu for ten days and never took a bath.When I returned to Ganzi County which is more big town, I went to the hot spring and found fleas on my body, which scared me.

More than a decade ago, when I was a backpacker, I often to traveled / I used to travel all over China and visited many interesting places.
In 2002, I went to a place in Baiyu County, which is in the north-west of Sichuan Province / which is in north-west sichuan province,
where the altitude is more than 3000 meters. It is a very lovely county，and / which is surrounded by snow mountains and most of the residents are Tibetans / the residents are typically Tibetan. There are also many beautiful Tibetan temples with amazing golden roofs that / which look beautiful under the sunlight. I stayed in a clean and warm hostel, but I didn’t have a bathroom, so I couldn’t take a hot shower.
I lived in Baiyu for ten days and never took a bath. When I returned to Ganzi County which is a bigger town, I went to the a hot spring to wash / take a bath and found fleas on my body, which scared me.