F2F Class Notes 5th December (Celeste)***

Demo StudentPenny

Next Class: Review the story below and grammar.

Speaking exercise

What did you do today? I had classes at my university.

What else did you do today? = What other things did you do today?

A: I didn’t do anything else today.

A: I did _____. eg: I did homework.

A: I went to ____. eg: I went to lunch with my friends.

Why did you eat just a tomato?

A: keep my fit – I want to keep fit / to stay thin.

Vocabulary

smoothie = nai xi

eg. Celeste had a smoothie for lunch.

the Bund = wai tan

eg. The Bund a place in Shanghai.

paofu = cream puff/s

eg. Cream puffs are light.

Writing exercise

Original

On Saturday afternoon, I went to the Bund with my parents and niece to walk. First, I went to Xujiahui to have a English class with Selma. Then I went to Xuhui Park to find my parents. Then we took taxi went to the Bund. When we arrived at the Bund, there were a lot of people to take photo. After, we went to Xingshijie because my niece want to eat cream puffs and my dad want to eat Korean food. So, we ate a little cream puffs and Korean food but, the Korean food is a little spicy. My niece don’t Korean food.  After we went take subway and by bus went home.

Edited

On Saturday afternoon, I went to Xujiahui to have an English class with Selma.  Next, I went to Xuhui Park to find my parents and my niece.  Then, we took a taxi to the Bund to walk.  When we arrived at the Bund, there were a lot of people taking photos. After, we went to Xingshijie because my niece wanted to eat cream puffs and my dad wanted to eat Korean food. So, we ate a few/some cream puffs and Korean food but, the Korean food was a little spicy. My niece didn’t like it. After we took the subway and bus to go home.

Grammar

How do you get here? / How did you get here?

I take the bus. / I took the bus.

I take the subway. / I took the subway.

I take a taxi. / I took a taxi.

I take my scooter. = dianpingche / I took my scooter.

I take my bike. / I took my bike.

I take a plane. / I fly by plane. = I took a plane. / I flew by plane.

I take a boat. / I took a boat.