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Next update August 2019

Previous Levels

Listening: 2.2
Speaking: 1.5
Pronunciation: 2.5
Writing: 2
Jun '18: 8.2
11.75

New levels

Listening: 3.5
Speaking: 2.5
Pronunciation: 3
Writing: 2.75

Changes to profile:
Topics: Life
Teaching method + (Focus):
Speaking (Vocabulary)
Homework type + (Focus): Writing (Grammar and Vocabulary)
Overall focus is on speaking and vocabulary building, but writing exercises about specific topics can also help to improve native-sounding grammar.

Class Notes from today:

Homework

Here’s a fun website with all sorts of quizzes:
https://www.sporcle.com/quiz/

This seems to be the address for the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague: DAMU, Karlova 26, Praha, Czech Republic

See if you can find a place to live nearby, or on tram line 17. Also, see if there is anything good to visit nearby!

Next Class Focus

Do some speaking practice related to travel vocabulary.

Vocabulary

Get to know – to learn about someone or something
e.g. Before I go to the Czech Republic (Czechia) I want to get to know

Most of the time – more often than not, usually
e.g. Most of the time, I like to drink tea, but sometimes I drink coffee.

Sponsor – a person or company that gives money to help with something, and then you put their name in public places at the event or in some building
e.g. In our town we are having a big race, and the local bank has donated $1000 as a sponsor.
e.g. Nike is sponsoring this trip to Ximalaya.

Venue – the place where an event will be
e.g. The main venue for the Prague Quadrennial is the Prague Exhibition Grounds. However, it looks like the theater venue is the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Faculty of Theater (DAMU) at Karlova Street 26. Tram line 17 connects both of these locations, so maybe this would be a good line to stay near.
e.g. The venue for swimming events in the 2008 Beijing Olympics was called “the Cube.”

Directions – how to get from one place to another
e.g. Go down this street to the first intersection and turn left. It will on the right-hand side of the street.

Does this bus go to…?
How much is a ticket to…?
How many stops until we get to…?
Wait! Please open the door again! I need to get off here! Let me off/out!

Czech – the language that they speak in Czechia/the Czech Republic

Trip – one time when you go away from home and come back
e.g. During my last trip abroad…

Tour Group – 旅游团

Matching – all the same
e.g. The tour groups of old people coming to see the Bund all wear matching hats.

the Bund – 外滩

Oriental Pearl Tower – 东方明珠

Grammar

This is the first travel I just with a friend to go abroad – This is the first time that I am traveling abroad just with a friend (not in a tour group)