DEMO Class Notes (George) [Claire]

Ni Xang Jun, Claire

1997 Shanghainese, 22 yrs old,

Works for Wang Wang Group, the Taiwanese snack company.

Has a business English test in mid-November, also learning Japanese.

The main reason she wants to learn English in social communications.

Was learning English at university, went to Singapore and a few other countries on exchange.

Vocabulary

Quarantine- When we move one thing, animal or human, away from a group so the others won’t catch its disease. Can also mean to isolate someone or something.

e.g. During the H1N1 virus, many people got quarantined at the airport.

Grammar

I go to singapore for short term stay-I went to singapore for a short term stay

Original

Last year I went to singapore for a short term stay, this is the third time I went to Singapore, people who live there are really friendly and they speak mandarin but they have some different accents, they speak Singlish, and their mandarin is also a bit weird, but we have less problems to communicate, and I studied in a private college to cultivate my language skills. We also learned some commercial lessons, accounting, management, business so on.  The merlion park, there are so many tourists there and the air is really fresh.

Corrected

Last year I went to singapore for a short term stay, this is the third time I went to Singapore, people who live there are really friendly and they speak mandarin but they have some different accents, they speak Singlish, and their mandarin is also a bit weird, but we don’t have difficulty communicating with each other, and I studied in a private college to cultivate my language skills. We also learned some commercial lessons, accounting, management, business so on.  The merlion park, there are so many tourists there and the air is really fresh.