Online Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Homework

Write a recipe for tangyuan. How do you make them? What do you need to use? What do you put inside them?

OR

What do you plan to do for May Day? Will you travel somewhere? Will you have a special meal with your family or friends? Do you know the history of May Day?
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/history-of-may-day

Vocabulary

Savory – something that is salty or that has meat/fat in
e.g. For Chinese New year, we usually eat savory dumplings, not sweet ones.

Broth – the water and flavor in a soup 汤
e.g. This soup has a chicken broth (it is made with water and chicken flavor)

Tofu – larger pieces of tofu, usually white
Bean Curd – very thin pieces of tofu

Runny Nose – when your nose is sort of wet and you have to blow it often 流 鼻涕
e.g. Nick is sorry to have runny nose during class.

Radish – 萝卜

汤圆 – Rice-flour dumplings

Flour – 面粉

Sesame – 芝麻

Peanut – 花生

Bean Paste – 豆沙, a paste is anything where you take a flour 粉 and mix in water or oil

Treat – when you get something special, often something good to eat
e.g. When my girlfriend came home yesterday she brought me a treat: chocolate!

Keep [someone] honest – to ask good questions, to make sure that someone isn’t lying
e.g. Emma is right, May Day isn’t this week, but next week. She’s keeping me honest.

For [time] straight – you use this to show that you do something for a long period of time; use time periods like “day, week, month, hour”
e.g. Today I have class for four hours straight (this means that I will be in class for four hours without stopping)
e.g. I have gone to the gym for six days straight (this means that I went at least once every day for the last six days)

Speaking exercise

I like hotpot, but I can’t eat too spicy. Sometimes I just eat not spicy. I like vegetables, tomato and bean product. In my city, in Changzhou, the traditional food is 萝卜干. The most special food we eat in New Year is a ring dumpling, and we often put vegetables or meat in it, not sweet dumpling. But I think the sweet dumpling is special for the xian, just salt.


I like hotpot, but I can’t eat food that is too spicy. Sometimes I just eat not hotpot that is not spicy / with a clear broth. I like to put vegetables in my hotpotlike tomato and soybean products / tofu. In my city, in Changzhou, the traditional food is dried radish. The most special food we eat for the New Year is a 汤圆  (rice-flour dumplings), and we often put vegetables or meat in it, not sweet dumplings. But I think the sweet dumplings are a special treat, even more special than savory dumplings. for the xian, just salt.

The May Day will come in and so tomorrow we need to work. Just today, one day for rest. (Do you like to work on Sunday?) No, because after the May Day we need to work on six days. In fact, we just have only one day for this holiday, and this Sunday and next Sunday we need to work.


The May Day will come next week in and so tomorrow we need to work. We just have today, only one day for to rest. (Do you like to work on Sunday?) No, because after the May Day we need to work on for six days straight. In fact, we just have get only one day for this holiday, and because this Sunday and next Sunday we need to work.