Online Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Write a little diary about sth that happened with your son recently – focus on keeping each idea connected and with logic for each sentence. Don’t have any 3-4 word sentences.

Try to focus on keeping the same topics in the same part of your writing. Don’t change from A to B back to A.

After my child goes to nursery school, i cant catch up on sleep，because the upstairs is conducting redecoration. and it reminds me to go to buy some furniture for my new house. I love decoration. My mum is a real- easted developer. and i often decorate for her new business. I am good at doing that .the furniture made in italy is very expensive. and i am priciate money from my mum.

Weekends is coming which means our family need to go to disneyland. i feel a little bit scared. Little boys have good bodies, they are cute but naughty most of the time. they play like a machine without taking a break. actually, i love disneyland, it reminises about my childhood. my first watch was bought by my mum when i was seven which is a mickey watch. it costed 300rmb. at that moment, it was big bucks. the number of people is limitted in disneyland now due to covid, so many projects dont have long queues.

Recently, my boy doesnt allowe me to listen to the classical orchestra. i think i need to do sth to correct his selfish. he doesn’t have a sister or brother，we do almost everything for him when his was a baby, now he is 3 years old, i think i have to change my education way.

After my child goes to nursery school every day, i cant catch up on sleep，because the upstairs apartment is conducting redecoration. and it reminds me to go to buy some furniture for my new house, which i really love to do. And I especially love to buy furniture made in italy but it is very expensive, so i really appreciate the money from my mum. My mum is a real-estate developer, and i often decorate for her new business which I am good at doing that.

The weekend is coming which means our family needs to go to disneyland so i feel a little bit scared. Little boys are like machines that never need to take a break. They have a lot of energy, and they are cute but naughty most of the time.  Actually, i love disneyland, which reminds me / which makes me reminisce about my childhood. My first watch, which was a mickey mouse watch and cost 300 RMB, was bought by my mum when I was seven. At that time / In that period / Back then, it was big bucks / it was a lot of money. The number of people is limited at disneyland now due to COVID, so many rides / attractions dont have long queues.

Recently, my boy doesn’t allowe me to listen to the classical orchestral music. i think i need to do sth to correct his selfishness. he doesn’t have a sister or brother / he’s an only child, and we have been doing almost everything for him from when he was a baby, but now he is 3 years old, so / and i think i have to change my education way / change the way I educate him.

Grammar

I live in China = normal / generally
I have lived in China = in my life, i experienced this / recently it happened but not specific time
I am living in China = right now
I have been living in China for 10 years = started in the past, and still going now

I have a watch (which is a mickey mouse watch) and it was bought in DL by my mum (who is a lovely lady)

even though my kid leaves me alone at home while he’s at nursery school, I still can’t catch up on sleep because…

he don’t know sharing – he doesn’t know how to share 

spend money for sth – spend money on sth

Vocabulary

stubborn / stubbornness
eg. I think stubbornness is very unattractive

turn off < > turn off – lights / internet / computer / phone / car

strict – yan ge
eg. my dad is very strict with me / to me

stand up for my baby / protect my baby

lose his temper – to suddenly get angry
eg. sometimes my husband loses his temper

socialising
eg. I need to socialise him better = get him more familiar with social rules
eg2. He doesn’t like socialising = talking and sharing with others

on and off / up and down – sometimes good, sometimes bad…. sometimes happening, sometimes not happening
eg. it has been raining on and off for the last 1 hour

it wasn’t affected / impacted – ying xiang
eg. her company wasn’t impacted much by COVID