F2F Class Notes 17th April (Celeste) [R]***

Demo StudentYuqing

Homework

Listen to the recording of the story below 2-3 times. Copy the sounds. Be prepared to read it in your next class. Also, if there are any new words, write them down and learn them in your next class.

Needs more review

fearless adj. – not afraid

eg. Women who travel by themselves are fearless.

eg. Every time when I to do new things I always believe myself is fearless. – Every time when I do new things I always tell myself I am fearless. / I always believe I am fearless. 

Gender equality is when men and women are treated and believed as equal.

I got my tattoo a few years ago in Thailand. It was very painful.

A few years ago, I got my tattoo in Thailand. It was very painful.

When I got my tattoo a few years ago in Thailand it was very painful.

A small group dedicated to feminism. – In Shanghai there are not many people talking about Feminism. Maybe in some universities they have a small group dedicated to feminism.

Y: I like traveling all over the world.

 C: Why?

Y:  I like traveling all over the world because outside of China is so wonderful.

Vocabulary

Out of Africa ( book then film) – memories coming from Africa

outside of China – the places not in China

Reading

Dutch towns tell tourists how to behave

Being a tourist and sightseeing in old villages is great, but is it good for the locals? Villagers living in ‘Old Holland’ near Amsterdam are tired of visitors and tour guides disturbing their peace. They have worked with tour companies to make rules for tourists. These include not photographing people without asking, not going into their gardens and not dropping litter. Tourism is booming and the number of tourists will rise by 50% in the next decade.

Old Holland looks like the past. There are windmills and traditional wooden houses. A local resident said the village of Zaanse Schans is like an open-air museum. However, he said: “One resident…opened his curtains in the morning and looked into the camera lenses of nine photographers.” He added: “Visitors seem happy to knock on the wooden houses to see if it is real wood….That is not pleasant.” He said tour buses were the noisiest.

Pronunciation

-ol: old, hold, gold, fold, told, mold

Holland ( hall – lind )