Online Class Notes (Nick)

Either:

Write about something that happened during the holiday.

OR

Take a look at the puns on this page and see if you can understand them. Next class we can talk about some of them.
https://onelinefun.com/puns/

Here’s one related to the material last class:
“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”

Vocabulary

Low bar – a low level of expected quality
e.g. My Chinese is “good enough,” but that’s a pretty low bar (you don’t a lot of Chinese to do basic things like: ordering food, asking directions, buying tickets)

Parking Garage – 地下车库/停车库

Above ground / Underground – 地面 / 地下

Pun – a joke where you use different meanings of one word

Explanation: Thunder the the sound that comes after lighting, and lightning happens in storms, which have lots of clouds. Underwear are shorts you wear under your pants (as you know). When you combine the words, it’s a sort of clever, smart joke.

Film Set – a place where you film a movie
e.g. In Zhejiang province they have a large fake Forbidden City to use as a film set.

颠簸 – bouncy, jostling – when something does not move smoothly but also goes up and down, like a train

High-speed rail – 高铁

Grammar

Didn’t you went back to the USA? – Did you go back to the the USA?

Are your girlfriend your classmate – is

Well vs. Good – adverb vs. adjective