Online Class Notes (Nicholas)(S)

Homework

Review the speaking corrections – very important.

What if your son’s teacher called you and said “your son was cheating in class” – and you found out that this wasn’t a one time problem – he was always cheating in class. What would you think and how would you address this with your son?

Speaking exercise

Actually this accident was happened when we went to were in Guangzhou and actually we planed to go to NZ maybe next year because I went to NZ before with my husband and we would like wanted to bring our son to there to enjoy the very freedom life their free society, but when we were at in GZ we read this news, I think its a very terrible/horrible thing. because in my memory from what I remember NZ is was a very simple, very kindly kind country. All the people there are were very nice and very friendly, I don’t know why something like this would happen this things would happen in NZ because I think all of this always happening things like this are always happening in Europe and America, but finally it is because they hate the outcome people outsiders and that this time their aim or their target, is was the Muslim community, but actually this is bad news for all the foreigner foreigners in NZ. It’s very sad because NZ is not this kind of a country like this. And I think the safest place is China and SH.

When we are speaking generally (things that apply to many people or usually happen) – we do not use the word THE – we just use the plural form of the noun we are talking about (e.g. Muslims, outsiders).

Always ask yourself WHO or WHAT is receiving the VERB (this is called the “object” of the verb) e.g. “I think the safest WHAT is China and SH?”

I think at least these things will not happen in SH Well, I think things like this won’t happen in SHthe guns/weaponsthe shootings and the other very horrible things.. these things will never happen in SH I think. Because the safe management was very seriously Because China takes safety management very seriously. I think at least in SH we’ll never happen [experience] these things. Maybe in ? – someplace like that – always happen these things these things are always happening…

Here we took the noun (that you put at the end of the sentence) and now we are putting it at the front of the sentence + the  verb in the middle + and then the object of the verb at the end

This war will never stop. Because I don’t know he shoot he shot all a lot of people who are just were not the leaders – just the followers – just the regular people. I think this is the biggest problem in the world – is this.

Just stop saying the word THE.

Speaking exercise

I think cheating is a traditional habit in China – it is not for this age only not only in modern times– it’s from long long ago – every generation, they all had this problem – the this cheating problem – from low tier people [lower class people] they always cheated to each other maybe for food, or for money…

When naming a long list of things like “for food, for money, etc.” add an “OR” or “AND” in between to connect these list words.

…and the middle level people [middle class] they always cheated lower class people and leaders – actually I think the leaders was were always be being cheated by all another people everyone else – like middle class people and low tier class people/[the lower class]. I think cheating is – they are too smart to be good at cheating. For example, myself’s from my own experience – when we went to NZ actually we found that the cheap arrangement (OKAY) was not very suitable or comfortable because the (DA) schedule was made by my colleague’s wife (good pronunciation). Her plan always asks required my husband and her husband to drive to this place or to another so its very tired tiring. 

It is very tiring / It is very tired.

Then my husband refused to drive there because it’s very very long far away – it will would take a long time to go there – then they asked me to write an English mail a letter in English to the BNB host that we have had a some problem – they don’t didn’t want to pay the punishment fee.

Be careful or make sure to use the past tense when talking about something from your memory, and when talking about something that MIGHT HAPPEN or talking about IF SOMETHING HAPPENS then use the word WOULD not WILL.

Pronunciation

went to the / NOT thur / NO -R sound / THUH

and uh / NOT er / UH / same sound as THE or THUH like the ‘U’ in hungry

Grammar

lot meeting / a lot of meetings

I went to have meeting / I had a meeting / I had meetings / I went to a meeting

open it / I opened it