F2F class notes 9th August (Ben)

Iren

the Caribbean

for family reasons (no my)

hold / held / held
It will be held

QUANTITIES

1. a lot of
2. MANY friends / MUCH time
3. some
4. FEW friends / LITTLE time
5. no

Countable nouns:
a car, a house, a child, a husband,a family, a job, an English class
during the Olympic Games
a gold medal
a silver medal
a bronze medal
“What is another way to say it?”

win = OFTEN
won = FINISHED (last week, last year, this morning)
HAVE won = UNFINISHED (so far, until now)
(you cannot use it with “last year, yesterday, in 2008, when I was a child”, etc)
So far, China has won 13 medals. Out of them, 5 are gold, 3 are silver and 5 are bronze.

So far, China has won 13 medals, out of which 5 are gold, 3 are silver and 5 are bronze.

I am not into it. 不太感兴趣
China, Shanghai, Iren

If the name 名字 includes (包括) a noun 名词, you often add THE

ex. a wall, a game, a state, a nation, 都是名词

the Great Wall, the Olympic Games, the United States, the United Nations
the Eiffel Tower, the Red Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Yellow River, the Changjiang River, the Civil War, the Cold War