Online Class Notes (Li)[S]

Write about the last movie you’ve seen. Don’t just write about the story. You should also tell me about whether you like the acting, costumes, background music etc.

Vocabulary

take a taxi: 打车

eg. My parents and I took a taxi to go to the restaurant.

eg. He suggested that I take a taxi to go to the airport.

Oriental Pearl Tower: 东方明珠

rent: 租

eg. We rent 2 public bikes.

borrow: 借

eg. I borrowed a pen from my classmate.

jump rope: 跳绳

eg. My mum forces me to jump rope every day.

Is it tiring? – 会累吗？

I feel exhausted – 我很累

Grammar

*Use the past tense for events that happened already!

Irregular verbs past tense

go –> went

do –> did

ride –> rode

take –> took

ex. I don’t like it – I didn’t like it

ex. I go there by bike – I went there by bike

I go outside to go to the Bund. We go outside to ride the bicycle. I go there with my parents. I eat the food. I eat the noodles. It’s not so far away but we buy the taxi to there for 14 minutes. And, we went on a boat to travel to the other side. We want to go to the Oriental Pearl Tower but we see a park and we go in and ride a bicycle there and we don’t go to the Oriental Pearl Tower. Because there is a long long way to ride a bicycle and we ride across the bridge. It look like a park but it isn’t a park and you can ride a long way. No, I don’t like it, I hate all the sport. My sport class is like English class. The teacher teach in English.

Revised: 

I went outside to go/I went to the Bund. We went outside to ride bicycles. I went there with my parents. I ate some food. I ate some noodles. It’s not so far away but we went there by/we took a  the taxi and it took 14 minutes. And, we took on a boat to travel to the other side of the river. We wanted to go to the Oriental Pearl Tower but we saw a park so we went in and rode our bikes there. We didn’t go to the Oriental Pearl Tower. Because it would take a long time by bike and we need to ride across the bridge. The place looks like a park but it isn’t a park and you can ride for a long distance. No, I didn’t like it, I hate all sports. My sports class is in English. The teacher teaches in English.

Pronunciation

Bund – Bun