F2F Class Notes 8th February (Tony) [W]

one of the biggest provinces

I’m from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province.

It’s not a very scenic place.

I couldn’t really find anything interesting to me, so I left.

North of China – means

North China, Northern China – in China’s northern part

Northern, Southern, Western, Eastern – ADJ for direction.

continent – Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia

eg: “There are seven continents.”

smog – smoke and fog

eg: “There’s too much smog.”

orient – to direct or position toward a particular object

eg: “I’m new to the city can you orient me to the nearest bank?”

office worker – works in an office

Grammar

most modern

most beautiful

Writing exercise

Original –

According to the charts, it has directly shown the difference of water consumption between developed and developing regions. North America and Europe both have developed industry and agriculture, compare to the other regions they have more modernized agriculture which might consume less water. So their industrial water consumption may relatively have a larger proportion. On the other hand, the developing regions like Africa, Central Asia, south east Asia are all have huge populations, but more underdeveloped agriculture,both factors caused more water to be depleted . But situation of South America is intermediate, so the chart distribution seems a bit balanced compare the other regions.


Correction –

According to the charts, there is a difference of water consumption between developed and developing regions. North America and Europe both have developed industry and agriculture, compared to the other regions they have more modernized agriculture which consumes less water. So their industrial water consumption may have a relatively larger portion. On the other hand, the developing regions like Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia all have huge populations, but more underdeveloped agriculture. Both factors cause more water to be depleted. But the situation in South America is different, so the chart distribution seems a bit more balanced compared to the other regions.

Homework

Prepare some answers for practice IELTS test.

https://www.ieltsessentials.com/global/prepare/freepracticetests/speakingpracticetests