F2F Class Notes 17th November (Celeste)***

Read the story below 2-3 times while listening to the recording. Next class: Retell the story.

Original

Now in China ,have a special day that “Shopping Day”on 11/11. About 3-5 years ago,this is “Single Day”. Before nothing special happened on that day. And one day have a guy,he is Jack Ma. He changed it,he had build a website by shopping . On that day,have a lot of cheap things on the website. Like Nike,Adidas,Uniqlo,Etc. Everything is half price,so everyone wants to buy it.
On 11/11 of year,I tried to rush to purchase something for the first time. I ordered many sports clothes in my taobao shopping cart. But ultimately I just got 6 what a crazy to me.Have a strange thing about Shopping.When I ordered 6 things,I just only paid for 2 things, I got 4 things for free.After I kept to see my bank card that will deduct money. But until now not yet.I thought that is Jack Ma gave me a gift for my first shopping.

Edited

Now in China, we have a special day for shopping on 11/11. About 3-5 years ago, this “Single’s Day” was created/started. Before, nothing special happened on that day. Then one day, a guy, Jack Ma, who built Taobao, a website for shopping, made sales/promotions for Single’s Day. On that day, there are a lot of cheap things on the website like Nike, Adidas, Uniqlo, etc. Everything is half price, so everyone wants to buy something/everything.
On 11/11 this year, I tried to rush to purchase something for the first time. I placed/put/selected many sports clothes/athleticwear/sportswear in my taobao shopping cart. But ultimately I just ordered 6 items then a crazy thing happened to me. When I ordered 6 things, I just/only paid for 2 things, I got 4 things for free. Then, something strange happened. After, I kept looking at my bank account to see if more money was deducted. But until now, nothing has changed. So, I thought that Jack Ma gave me a gift for 11/11.

Pronunciation

ultimately ( ull – tim – mit – lee )

items ( eye – tums )

I have something in my throat. / I have a frog in my throat. (native)