F2F Class Notes 28th July (Jesse)

Homework: talk about the past + the future.
hardly ever / most of the time / headache / still / yet / boring / tiring 

storm
eg. it stopped raining but there is still a storm / it is still stormy

lightning – light from storm

thunder – sound from storm

if i am an intern i am not hired yet
………………..i am still not hired

it was raining from 2pm to 3pm, and it is still raining.
i rained from 2pm until 3pm.

until – stopped
i lived ….. until 2016. = i stopped living

i have lived in china very happily until now

bored – your feeling

boring – describe sth / sb
eg. i am bored because the teacher is boring

i go to bookshops everyday
i go to a bookshops everyday
i go to the bookshop everyday
i go to many bookshops every day

let me not do sth – stop me doing sth /stop me from being bored.

when I am bored, i feel tired.
when I am feeling bored I also feel tired.
when I am being bored, I also feel tired.
playing computer games stops me from being bored.

it lets me not be bored – it stops me from being bored

talk about the weather before you arrived, and what will happen when you leave

when I arrived before weather was cloudy. when i arrived here, weather was started storming. the weather is very bad and rain heavily now. i will wait a lot time to leave as rain is very heavy.

before I arrived the weather was cloudy but when i arrived here, the weather was starting to storm. It is very bad and raining heavily now. i will wait a long time to leave as the rain is very heavy.

was did
was do
was doing
was adj
was noun

a long time / ages
eg. i haven’t seen you for ages / i haven’t seen you for a long time

normally when it’s like this, the storm will die down but then the rain will be really strong for a long time.

normally = very often = generally = most of the time
eg. i drink coffee most of the time before class

crazy – fen kuang

the wind is blowing really strongly
the wind is blowing the trees really hard

the storm is dying down