Online Class Notes (Lily) [W]

Grammar

It took me…. =我用了。。。。
ex: It took me 30 minutes to eat my breakfast.
ex: It took me 50 minutes to drive to the office.

how long did it take you to……= 你…. 花了多久啊?
ex: how long does it take you to make dinner? 平时做饭花多久时间?
ex: how long did it take you to make dinner?  *针对性*你昨天做饭花多久时间?
ex: how long did it take you to put on makeup yesterday?

How much do you spend on XX?
i spent $## on XX= 我花了##在XX上面
ex: How much do you spend on your parents every year?
ex: I spend 5000 yuan on my parents every year.

I just can … –> I can only…

Vocabulary

1. put on makeup (verb)= 化妆
ex: do you like to put on makeup?

2. browse (verb)= 瞎看看
ex: I’m just browsing on the net.
ex: “can I help you with anything?” “It’s ok, I’m just browsing”.

3. on sale= 打折
ex: this shirt is on sale. 这件衣服打折?
ex: is this on sale?
ex: what’s on sale?

4. discount (noun)= 折扣
ex: can you give me some discounts?
ex: employee discount= 员工折扣

5. budget= 预算
ex: what’s your budget?
ex: This project has a low budget, we can’t use too many people.
ex: I have a low budget, I can only take the train to go back home.

Writing exercise

Those days i work from home and i don’t need to clock in.So my life become unregular(i have no routine in my life).It mainly affects my bioclock,which is reversed.I’m wide awake at night,sometimes It will continues the whole night.I usually watch a few movies and look at My wechat moments,then i know who doesn’t sleep like me.Many people like to post on wechat when they have insomnia.In the daytime,I always feel sleepy and go to bed for a long time.Then i couldn’t fall asleep again. it’s very annoying.

Revised

These days i work from home and i don’t need to clock in, so my life became irregular(i have no routine in my life).My bioclock is reversed .I’m wide awake at night,sometimes it will continue/go on for the whole night.I usually watch a few movies and browse my My wechat moments,then i would know who else sleeps late like me.Many people like to post on wechat when they have/suffer from insomnia.In the daytime,I always feel sleepy and go to bed for a long time.Then i couldn’t/wouldn’t fall asleep at night. it’s very annoying.