F2F Class Notes 21st March (Raph)[W]

Vocabulary

Tournament (n): 1- a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left.
E.g.: She won the majiang tournament.

Prize (n): 1- something valuable, such as an amount of money, that is given to someone who succeeds in a competition or game or that is given to someone as a reward for doing very good work.
E.g.: I won a prize in the raffle.

Legal (n): 1- allowed by the law. (≠ Illegal)
E.g.: Is abortion legal in your country?

Mind (n): 1- the part of a person that makes it possible for him or her to think, feel emotions, and understand things:
E.g.: Her mind was full of thoughts about what had happened the night before.

Shuffle (v): 1- o mix a set of playing cards without seeing their values before beginning a game, so that their order is not known to any of the players.
E.g.: It’s your turn to shuffle the cards.

Actor / Actress (n): 1-someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a film, play, or television or radio programme:
E.g.: He is certainly the best actor in Hollywood today.

Charactera person represented in a film, play, or story:
E.g.: Mickey Mouse is my favorite Disney character.

Curse (v): 1- to say magic words that are intended to bring bad luck to someone. 2- 诅咒
E.g.: Things were going so badly that I started to think I had been cursed.

Part 1 Edited

Last night Michel and I went to Shanghai Stadium to watch football with Michel’s friends. Michel said we need to meet at 7PM but I booked an English class from 6:20PM-7PM. So I didn’t want to make them wait for me for a long time so I canceled my English class. One week ago, Michel sent a message to ask me if I had plans on Wednesday night because  Alex wanted to invite us to watch football.

When Michel finished work he took the subway there/he took the subway to go there. I also took the subway there and we met his friends outside of the subway station/exit. We walked together into the stadium but when we arrived the football game  already started/began and the Chinese team scored a goal. This was my first time to watch a live football game and I felt alive.

Part 2

Next we found our seats and I took a look around of the whole stadium, a most of people wears red T-shirt because they are the Chinese team fans. I saw have many leaders commanded all the fans to cheer which was so professional.
When we watched football game , I heard have two Chinese guys of my behind always talked about the football game that likes a soccer commentator.
The first half of football game, the Chinese team scored 3 goals. Half time 15 minutes. At the second half of football game, We saw a Japanese footballer kicked a Chinese footballer on purpose.
I was so surprise and I asked Michel why did the referee punish them. Michel said the camera didn’t film it, but I saw it. Everyone laughed by my side around.At last the Chinese team won the game that 3 vs 2.
we hadn’t dinner to watch football game so we ate chaozhou hotpot, it’s Michel’s friends favorite food because they’re all the French born Chinese. After we went home to sleep.

Edited:

Next we found our seats and I took a look around the whole stadium, most of the people wore red T-shirts because they are the Chinese team fans. I saw many leaders who commanded all the fans to cheer, which was very professional.

While we watched the football game , there were two Chinese guys behind me who were always talking about it, just like a soccer commentator.
During the first half of the game, the Chinese team scored 3 goals. Then there was a 15-minute halftime break and during the second half of the game, a Japanese player kicked a Chinese footballer on purpose. I was very surprised so I asked Michel why the referee didn’t punish them, but he said  that, although I had seen it the camera hadn’t film it. Everyone around me laughed. At last the Chinese team won the game 3-2.
We hadn’t had dinner before the football game so we went to a Chaozhou hotpot restaurant, which is Michel’s friends’ favorite food, because they’re all French-born Chinese. After that we went home to sleep.

Pronunciation

Character: /ˈker.ək.tɚ/

Mind: /maɪnd/

Referee: /ˌref.əˈriː/

Smile: /smaɪl/

Smell: /smel/