F2F Class Notes 19th February (Jesse)

know – normal time

knew – past

will know / will learn

when I was a child I knew/thought that Santa was real but now i know/think Santa is not real.

Yesterday my husband wanted to eat noodles but I think they’re bad so I didn’t eat them.

It has been 2 months since the new restaurant opened, my friend and i spent a lot of time on it. The first month we promoted a few sets of food, then many people came to our shop, but a few days later the people who came became less. In the beginning people came to our shop maybe because it was a new shop, but then they thought the food choice was too little, so people became less and less. Then we changed the way immediately,and promoted more style taste to the customers and we grouped some foods into a special combo and many people like it, more and more people come to our restaurant now/these days.

i have few friends = i dont have many friends 

i have a few friends = yi xie 

normal

past – you know the time (past) 

eg. I went to Australia last year (verb) / i lived in australia before

eg. I was happy last year (adj)

past general – you don’t the time (past)

eg. i have eaten chinese food (verb) / i have lived in australia before

eg. i have been happy before (adj)

past past – it happened before something else (past)

eg. i had eaten chinese food before I came to China (verb)

eg. i had been happy for many years before coming to China (adj)

eg both. I have lived in China for many years, and I had eaten a lot of Chinese food by the time I left Australia. So when I arrived, I was comfortable with Chinese food, and now I am still comfortable.

now

future