F2F Class Notes 3rd March (Cricket)

Vocabulary

trigger-happy– a phrase that means a person who has a weapon/gun is to eager to pull the trigger or use their weapon

eg. Some of the police in America can be trigger-happy.

po-po-nickname for a police officer in America.

eg. I’m running from the po-po.

expat-ex-patriate- Name given to citizens that have left their home country.

eg. You could say that all the foreigners in China are also expats. To be an ex-patriate.

confiscated– to take away

eg. The teacher caught me with my phone in class and confiscated it.

Grammar

Teacher taught me you can’t smoke in a public place its not manner.- My teachers growing up taught me that smoking in public was bad manners/or not polite.

I think Shanghai is becoming more modern.

I think nowadays that the Chinese are improving their manners/or becoming more polite.

Manners becoming important for Shanghainese. I think that good manners are becoming more important for the Shanghainese.

The Chinese manner is very bad.– Chinese manners are very bad.

Original

I decided to keep reading English books every week to improve my English.
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Today I finished the first chapter of a book named “A Little Princess”.
A little girl named Sara was sent to London by her father.
Her father was very rich and loves Sara very much, but he was also very busy.
He sent Sara to a school in London and go back to India for his work.

Edited

I decided to keep reading English books every week to improve my English.

——
Today, I finished the first chapter of a book named, “A Little Princess”.
A little girl named, Sara was sent to London by her father.
Her father was very rich and loved Sara very much, but he was also very busy.
He sent Sara to a school in London and goes/went back to India for his work.