Demo Class Notes 17th February (Jesse / Faye)

Faye

– confidence when speaking with foreigners is low, presentations are hard, writing for business ok but maybe not daily writing, writing a lot but speaking not much.

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F2F: 3

WeChat: 1 

Email: 1

Homework: give different kinds every class at first
Corrections: interruptions are OK + write in notes
Story correction exercises: can do every class
Free talk: No free talk, but topic based conversations are OK

Get her to talk more about her own experiences, and teach vocabulary from that. Also, give more natural vocabulary rather than always using words she’s learned from a dictionary. 

Speaking Focus: correct your simple grammar mistakes yourself

if i do travel – if i DO travel, then I should… 

hit him – when sth touches sth else accidentally (bu xiao xin de)

when I’m nervous – when i’m nervous 

in november 2014 i and 2 of my friends went to korea and every preparation they planned i just followed them. but i always agree with them and we spend 5 or 6 days in korea and maybe 3 days we spend on shopping and we spend the whole day ski. that was the first time i learn skiing and i learnt. though i fall down several times but finally i can ski, so i was very proud of it. and i plan to korea or other place to ski again maybe this year. 

in november 2014 me and 2 of my friends went to korea and they planned everything and / so i just followed them. but i always agreed with them and we spent 5 or 6 days in korea and maybe we spent 3 days shopping and we spent the whole day skiing. that was the first time i learned skiing / took a skiing class and i actually did learn. i fell down several times but finally i could ski, so i was very proud of myself. and i plan to go to korea or other places to ski again maybe this year. 

we spent time doing sth

me and my friends – my friends and i
fall – fell – will fall – falling

everything I really like – I really like everything