Online Class Notes (Raph)[S][R]

Vocabulary

Foreigner (n): 1- a person who’s from another country.
E.g.: If I learn English, I can talk to foreigner.

Culture (n): 1-  the way of life of a group of people. 2- 文化.
E.g.: If you talk to foreigners you can learn about their cultures.

Collect (v): 1- to take things from somewhere.
E.g.: After the party, we collected all the trash (垃圾) and threw it in the trash can (垃圾箱).

Recycle (v): 1- 回收
E.g.: We need to help the world, by recycling our trash.

Category (n): 1- a type, or a group of things that are similar. 2- 类别
E.g.: We took everything and divided in categories.

Libraries (Source: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1905/190509-library-0.html)

Garbage collectors in Turkey are recycling books. They started a mobile library. It has over 9,000 books. There are books on politics, romance, history, literature and economics. The library is in a truck. It tours schools in Ankara. The library wants to make children passionate about paper books.

More people know about the library. They want it to grow. The library said: “Each day we have guests coming here to borrow books.” It has books for younger and older children. Turkey has one public library for every 70,000 people; the European Union has one public library for every 6,200 people.

Original:

Yesterday I went to school at 8 o’clock. I learned a lot about Math and English. At Chinese I read my Chinese books loudly and clearly. Teacher says I’m at saying Chinese. I am happy about that. During art class I draw some pictures, I see my friends, he is draw very good, but I think my drawing is not very good, so he teached me how to draw the butterflies or some other things. I draw at after school and I gave it to my mom. She thinks I can do drawer in the future, but I don’t like to drawing.

Edited:

Yesterday I went to school at 8 o’clock. I learned a lot about Math and English. At Chinese class I read my Chinese books loudly and clearly. My teacher said I’m good at speaking Chinese, and I was happy about that. During art class I drew some pictures. I saw my friend’s drawing and it was  very good. I thought my drawing was not very good, so he taught me how to draw butterflies and some other things. I made a drawing after school and gave it to my mom. She thinks I can be a designer in the future, but I don’t like drawing.

Grammar

I like listening music. – I like listening to music.

We running together – We go running together / We run together

Pronunciation

Math: /mæθ/

Mathematics: /ˌmæθˈmæt̬.ɪks/

Collect: /kəˈlekt/

Category: /ˈkæt̬.ə.ɡri/

Divide: /dɪˈvaɪd/

Designer: /dɪˈzaɪ.nɚ/