Online Class Notes (Li)[S]

Vocabulary

the day before yesterday – 2 days ago

Terracotta: 兵马俑

gold: 金

pit: a large hole in the ground 坑

soldier: a person who is part of the army 士兵

commander:  an officer who is in charge of a group in the army 指挥官

bronze: 青铜

first/second/third – 1st/2nd/3rd

crab: 螃蟹

stamp: 邮票

mobile games: 手游

eat -> ate

buy -> bought

bring -> brought

go -> went

repeat: say/do something again

eg. I don’t understand, can you repeat what you just said?

Grammar

I give you some picture

I’ll send you some pictures

I forgot – already forget

again – one more time

I want to go there again next summer.

Can you repeat the question again?

neither…nor… – not this or that

The weather is neither hot nor cold.

She is neither tall nor short.

Speaking exercise

I go to the XiAn yesterday yesterday. I go there for one week. It’s very comfortable. The weather is not very hot and cold. I go to see the Terracotta. I see the Huangpu River. I go with my mother. Our side have a lot of people and another side have a lot of people.

I see three pits and two is very big and have a lot of soldiers and house and the third pit is for commanders. There are 4th pit it’s a place and in it there are a lot of bronze weapons. No, because it have light. I go to HM Street and I eat a lot of things and bring this back. My favourite is the 肉夹馍. There are small crabs and you fry.

It’s the first time I go to Xian. I want to go to there again because I want to buy another things at there. I want to go there next time and buy it.

Revised: 

I went to XiAn the day before yesterday. I went there for one week. The weather felt very comfortable. The weather was not very hot or cold. I went to see the Terracotta. I also saw Huangpu River. I went with my mother. Our side has a lot of people and the other side also has a lot of people.

I saw three pits: two of them are very big and there are a lot of/many soldiers and horses. The third pit is for commanders. There is a 4th pit. It’s an area that has bronze weapons. No, because it has light. I went to HM Street and I ate a lot of things and brought this back. My favourite food from Xian is 肉夹馍. There are also small crabs that are fried.

It’s my first time to go to Xian/first trip to Xian. I want to go there again because I want to buy other things when I go there. I want to go there again next time to buy it.