Open F2F Class notes 5th July (Eddie)

Demo StudentHaley

I mostly see you every day. – I see you almost every day.

merely / hardly = very close to none at all
almost                   =  very close to complete

E.g.

He was very thirsty, but there was hardly any water in the bottle.
He was very thirsty, but there was almost no water in the bottle.

He was very thirsty. Luckily, the bottle was almost full.

Haley’s examples:

I hardly did any work today. I barely worked today.

Working hard or hardly working? 🙂

I hardly know any people in Shanghai. I know almost no people in Shanghai.

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fried dough = you tiao

Snickers = a chocolate bar (contains peanuts and caramel)

Haley Original:

The headline of today’s TIMES newspaper was that there was a heaviest traffic accident happened on the high-speed road between Beijing and Shanghai in this year. In this traffic accident, total 10 freight cars and 2 private cars were scraped, 5 people were dead, 20 people were injured. The tragedy happened at 3:45 am, the real accident reason was been investigating. The injured people had been sent to the nearest hospital to accept the treatments. The government attached importance to the seismic accident and supplied several scenarios to give help to the victims.

Edited:

The headline of today’s TIMES newspaper was that the biggest traffic accident happened on the high-speed road between Beijing and Shanghai of this year. In this traffic accident, total 10 freight cars and 2 private cars were scraped, 5 people died, 20 people were injured. The tragedy happened at 3:45 am, the real reason for the accident is still being investigated. The injured people had been sent to the nearest hospital to get treatment. The government attached importance to the seismic accident and supplied several scenarios to give help to the victims.

Pigs 1 syllable

Blood:  red liquid from your body.

Flood:  a lot of rain causes the rivers/lakes to overflow

  • I saw a piece of news about a flood…

Farmer:  a person whose job it is to grow plants or take care of animals.

Seismic:  big/ huge. (usually talking about earthquakes or tragedies)

Scenario:  situation/ proposed situation./ options.

Eg.  You can get a hotel room and we’ll pay for it. (1)

You can go home and we’ll pay for your medical bills later (2)