F2F Class Notes 23rd February (Jesse)

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Problems from speaking today:

  • past tense
  • “hard on myself” / “put pressure on sb”
  • in my 9 years old – when i was 9

Vocabulary

i was quite free

all at once
eg. they came all at once / all at once, i got like 10 projects

new years resolution

renew their life – start afresh
eg. they way to start afresh

a good salary pay – a good salary 

in my 2017 year – in 2017 

make it come true / turn it into a reality / make it become a reality 

in 1 day after – in 2 days / 2 days later 

make myself happy – cheer myself up 

hard on myself / I’m my own biggest critic

give yourself permission / permit yourself to do sth

i’m familiar with it = I understand it well

it’s familiar (to me) = I can’t quite remember

It’s very familiar to me = I really understand

my memory isn’t as good as it used to be

Speaking exercise

I realised it in my middle school, in my very young. I remember in my 9 years old my father and my mother divorced so from that time I start become hard to myself. I just become silence and not talk a lot so from that time i always put pressure to myself and i want to do well and make myself successful but i’m not very smart or very clever girl so sometimes i want to do this things but my ability or knowledge cannot support me to do these things so i will negative or let myself down.

I realised it during middle school when I was young. I remember when I was 9 years old my father and my mother got divorced so from that time I started to become hard on myself. I just became silent and didn’t talk a lot so from that time i always put pressure on myself and i wanted to do well and make myself successful. However, i’m not very smart or a very clever girl so sometimes i want to do things but my ability or knowledge cannot support me / allow me to do them. So i will let myself down and be negative

i want to do things but my ability or knowledge cannot support me = I want to do so much, but due to my lack of ability or knowledge, I’m sometimes unable to.

when / while / during = time description