Demo Class Notes 10th June (Thandie / Jesse)

Thandie

– pronunciation problems, vocabulary good, needs to write a diary


Speaking exercise

we go to the head office for the business summit so we go the united states. so for the personal travel, personal travel sometimes maybe some travel around shanghai also maybe the national holiday go to some place, like for spring festival we go to xiamen, and actually we drive there and it’s not like we planned to be there. at that time all the airplanes are all booked so we drive there.

we went to our head office for a business summit so we went to the united states / the US / the states. So, for personal travel / trips, sometimes maybe I take some trips around shanghai also during national holidays we go to some places, like this spring festival we went to xiamen, and actually we drove there and it wasn’t what we planned to do. At that time all the flights were booked so we drove there.

Pronunciation

apple – a – big mouth

it – “i” – short “i” sound like “india”

business – “bizness”

Vocabulary

flights / plane ticket
eg. I took a flight from Shanghai to Beijing. The flight was really comfortable. I bought the ticket online.

native speak native spoken English

take trips / take a trip to a place

Grammar

for several times – several times

for some time / for 10 minutes

travel / travelling / traveled – v
trip – n

run / running / ran
running

drive / driving / drove / driven

the – specific thing
a – 1 / any
so – don’t use as a thinking word

i went to a cafe – don’t care which one
i went to the cafe – important which one (obvious)
i went to the cafe near my house – obvious because there’s only 1 / because i go there every time

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