Demo Class Notes 17th August (Jesse / Linda)

day off – annual leave / a holiday

eg. i will take a day off

i finish work = xia ban

eg. I finish work every day around 7pm

I am off work at 7pm / When are you off? 

every place i like it but i do went to paris many times and each time i have a different feeling for the first time i came to paris im like purely a tourist. for the 2nd time im rather compare with the first time im rather live in a very quiet street and eat local food and feel what is really about to live in paris. i cannot say french at all. first my english is not that good, to start a new language i do not have the confidence. 

I like all of the places i went to but i have been / gone to paris many times and each time i had a different feeling compared with the first time. The first time, i went to paris I was like a pure tourist. For the 2nd time, I lived on a very quiet street and ate local food to feel what it was like to live in paris. i can’t speak french at all because firstly, my english is not good enough to start a new language as i do not have the confidence. 

because = as

I come here so that I can improve my english 

not good enough to do sth 

I wanted to drink coffee

I want to feel what it is like to live in Paris. 

What is it like?
It is like eating cake.

I don’t know what it is like.
I want to know what it is like. 

How do you say? – zenme – how
What do you say? – shenme – thing

I don’t know what you want to eat. 

come / go 

I like every place that I went to

I like coffee that comes from starbucks 

I like starbucks coffee 

I went to every place and I liked them.

I did – past (specific)
eg. I did go there yesterday

I have done – past (general)
eg. I have been to Australia many times 

grammar
Past tense
chinglish logic