Online Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Vocabulary

Phone / Cell Service – when your phone can call people and connect to the internet without wifi
e.g. Do you have phone service on your other phone too? No, I am using wifi.

Personal / Business – opposites used to describe things like your two phones
e.g. April has two phones, one for personal use and one for business.

Prejudice – when someone doesn’t like or trust someone else because of who they are, not because of what the person is like as an individual (where they are from, who their parents are, what religion they believe in, the color of their skin, their sexuality, etc.)
e.g. It’s better to have a phone number registered to a big city if you are doing business, because people may trust you more.

Muggy – when it is hot and humid and people feel sticky and uncomfortable outside
e.g. In Shanghai it is raining, but in Jiangxi it is muggy.

Yellow Emperor / Huangdi – a god-like person in Chinese history and mythology

Empire – a large territory controlled by one group of people led by an emperor; place
Emperor – like a king who controls an area that many groups of people; person

Train tracks / rails / railroad – different words for the roads that trains use

Drizzle – when there is only a little bit of rain in small drops
e.g. Right now in Jiangxi it is both raining and sunny at the same time…

Grammar

I have two phone number – numbers

I also have Shanghai phone number – a Shanghai phone number
— Out of many phone numbers in Shanghai, you have one.

People who are stay in my hometown – People who live / stay in my hometown; People who are staying in my hometown

Arrangement marriage – arranged marriage

A train that can go to Russia vs. A train that goes to Russia
— The first is about possibility
— The second is about regularity

Words with “-ed” describe how you feel; words with “-ing” describe what makes you feel that way
e.g. I am tired because of the tiring trip we just took.
e.g. I am bored because English is boring (NOT REALLY)
e.g. I am annoyed because of that annoying child!

We only use “in” with “there” when something is really inside of something else, like a box, a room, a safe, a desk drawer, a car, etc.

Passive voice – when the person who does something is not important, only what they do 被
e.g. The trees are used for the Yellow Emperor (passive voice)
e.g. The Yellow Emperor’s workers collect the leaves from the trees for him (active voice)
e.g. The police protect the trees vs. the trees are protected (by the police)

Because I think the train speed is not very fast and I can see the view from the road. I think there is a train from Heilongjiang or some place can go to the Russia. I’m not doing the itinerary now, so I don’t know where I need to go, because I want to rest these days because last week is very tired. We climb a, not very high, but it is very hard. Stairs, like 90 degrees. I use my hands and my foot to climb the mountain, really climb like a monkey. We go to Fujian province and its the Wuyi. The special thing in there is the tea. It’s a old type tea only for the Huangdi in the ancient, and we saw the mother trees, there are six mother trees and they lived for 360 years and their leaf is not very good for the tea because it is too old, but for now we drink the tea from its grandsons. There is a funny story about those six trees: the government used to send the police to provide that tree because people know the trees used for the Yellow Empire and we all want to pick one or two leaves, but if we do that and those trees will died. So the govt sent the police to protect those trees.

I think that trains speed is are not very fast and so I can see the view from the road / tracks. I think there is a train from Heilongjiang or some place can that goes to the Russia. I’m not doing making / writing / designing the itinerary now, so I don’t know where I need to go. because I want to rest these days because last week is was very tired tiring. We climbed a, not very high, but it is very hard mountain. The / these stairs were like 90 degrees. I used my hands and my foot feet to climb the mountain, really climb like a monkey. We go went to Fujian province, and its the Wuyi Mountain. The special thing in there is the tea. It’s a old type of tea (Da Hong Pao) only for the Huangdi / Yellow Emperor in the ancient times, and we saw the mother trees. There are six mother trees and they lived for 360 years and their leaf is leaves are not very good for the making tea anymore because it is they are too old. But for now, we drink the tea from its their grandsons. There is a funny story about those six trees: the government used to send the police to provide protect that tree because people know the trees are used for the Yellow Emperor and we all want to pick one or two leaves, but if we do that and then those trees will die. So the government sent the police to protect those trees.