F2F Class Notes 20th July (Harmony)

L – tongue touches the gums behind the teeth, not the teeth.

Halt (hault)

Faulty (fallty)

Coral (core – ul) – slow it down, and prounce each syllable separetly.  ***

Feel — shorten it!!  Say it fast.

Full  *** keep working on them!

Fool – foooo – ul.  – quickly move your tongue to your top of your gums.  ***

Tongue twister:

Lots of little London lamp-lighters lit London’s little lamps.

R words:

Fairy (fair –e)

Tongue Twister:

 
Around the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran.
 

Rugged:  not smooth/ has a lot of sharp edges.

Ragged:  tired looking/ wearing old clothes.

Rascal:  trouble maker/ a mischievous person.

Mosquito bites are itchy.

Reading: 

http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1604/160421-over-the-counter-drugs.html

*Over-the counter medicine:  you have to talk to the pharmacist to buy it.  It’s not just sitting on the shelf.

• You don’t need a prescription
• But you do need to ask the pharmacist for it.

*Asthma (as – ma):  an illness where people have trouble breathing/exercising.  — they take medication to help their lungs.

Eg.  I don’t want to get asthma when I grow old.

Dementia (dem – en – sha):  loss of memory or personality.

Alzheimer’s (all – sy – mers):  form of dementia.

*Allergies:  things you are allergic to.  (you are sensitive to, could be a small sensitivity, or it could be deadly.

Eg.  My husband has allergies.

Eg.  My husband is allergic to certain flowers.

Cognitive:  anything to do with the brain and thinking.

Impairment:  weakened or damaged.

Impaired: not thinking clearly/ not working well.

Eg.  If you are impaired from drinking, you shouldn’t drive.

*Metabolism:  the rate your body digests/processes food.

Eg.  If you have a high metabolism you will be thin.

Eg.  Nowadays I have a slow metabolism, so I am not thin.

Eg.  I hope I will have a high metabolism, but I don’t right now.

Storytelling:

We are classmates, actually desk mates when we are in middle school.  But we didn’t start at that time, until we went to University.  I was 19 that year and we met each other on a new year party.  We hadn’t seen each other for a couple of years and we had a great conversation and after that party he asked me out.  I don’t think if I can call it a date, but we just went to a park and walked around and had a simple dinner.  When we both went back to school he wrote me a letter, you know at that time we still wrote letters by hand and he asked me if I want to be his girlfriend and I said “I accept.”  Our universities were both in Shandong province, which is where my hometown is.  It’s one and a half hour by bus.  We were together for 7-8 years before we got married.  Sometimes I just think is it good to marry a man when I don’t have other choices.  I mean, he’s the first and only boyfriend.  Because I even didn’t have a chance to compare.  But honestly, I’m just a person when I already have something I…. I am a stable person.

Mostly we are happy and we have a son who is 18 month.  He was in Shanghai from April to June and then we send him back to my mothers house and I miss him very much.

Edit:

We were classmates, actually desk mates when we were in middle school. We didn’t start dating until we went to University.  I was 19 that year, and we met each other at a new year’s party.  We hadn’t seen each other for a couple of years and we had a great conversation.  After that party he asked me out.  I don’t think I would/can call it a date, but we just went to a park and walked around and had a simple dinner.

When we both went back to school he wrote me a letter, you know at that time we still wrote letters by hand, and he asked me if I want to be his girlfriend and I said “I accept.”  Our universities were both in Shandong province, which is where my hometown is.  It took one and a half hour by bus to get to his University.

We were together for 7-8 years before we got married.  Sometimes I wonder is it good to marry a man when I don’t have other choices?  I mean, he’s the first and only boyfriend of mine and I didn’t have a chance to compare.  But honestly, I’m a person that when I already have something I don’t want to change it, I am a stable person.

Mostly we are happy.  We have a son who is 18 months who was in Shanghai from April to June and then we sent him back to my mother’s house.  I miss him very much.

Eg.  I don’t know if I would call it a date…..

Patio/porch:  a raised area of a house outside to bbq.