F2F Class Notes 25th June (Eddie)
stuck = to not be able to move
E.g. My hand got stuck inside the cookie jar.
Q: Where were you when you got the message?
A;
Q: What were you doing when you got the message?
fly – flew – flown v. flight n.
when I fly to Dongying I stuck in the airport – When I flew to Dongying I was stuck in the airport for 12 hours.
Luckily I had a first class ticket
The airline upgraded my ticket to first class. I thought it might be because of the delay, but it wasn’t. This happens sometimes. I think there was enough availability and decided to give some seats away.
I had to take a taxi from Dongying to Qingzhou because there is no train service from Dongying to Beijing. It took about one hour and twenty minutes. It took about / almost an hour and a half.
28 minutes is almost 30 minutes or almost half an hour.
an umbrella, but a uniform n
a hat, but an hour
gold card = jin ka
platinum card = baijin ka
dialect (‘dy – a lekt) = a regional form of a language
syllable = a part of a word (com – pu – ter, 3 syllables)
vowel = a, e, i, o, u, (y)
consonant = b, c, etc
http://www.howmanysyllables.com/
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