F2F Class Notes 9th February (Celeste)***

Demo StudentKaren F

Homework

Write a short story about Carrie Mathison from the American TV show, Homeland. Upload it to the website.

Writing exercise

Edited

Last year I was travelling (tra ve ling) with my sister around the southeast of asia. Our first 4 months were amazing, Cambodia (cam boe di a), Laos, Vietnam (vee et nam)…but when we arrived in Philipines our budget (jet) had decreased a lot and we needed to look for a solution in order to follow our plans and do all we would like to do. We had heard about a website where people offer their homes to travelers so we started to look for people in Philippines, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. At first we were worried because we didn’t know anything about these charitable people, but we wanted to dive everywhere, buy flight tickets and follow our plan/schedule as long as possible and this meant we needed to save some money.
We contacted a Spanish guy in Singapore who had been leaving there for a year. We spent two nights in his house and that’s where/when  I met my boyfriend, his roommate. After these two days I continued my journey to Indonesia but always chatted with him. One week after I left Singapore he asked me out on our  first date, in Bali. I was really nervous to spend 4 days with a guy that I only knew for 2 days. 
Finally, the first date was amazing. Since then we met up  with each other once a month during  my trip. We went back to Spain together for Christmas and then we decided to start this new adventure in China.

Vocabulary

chat / chatting  / chatted / will chat with sb
eg. I chat with my mom every day. 
eg. I’m chatting with my teacher right now.
eg. I chatted with him last month.
eg. I will chat with my sister next month.
chat about sth
eg. I chat about my dental health with my mother.
eg. I’m chatting about psychology with my friend.
eg. I chatted about Chinese grammar with my Chinese teacher.
eg. I will chat about the job with HR.
chat over sth
We chatted over dinner.
We chatted over coffee.
We chatted over the phone.
we chatted over the music because it was too loud.

ask /asking / asked / will ask sb out = ask sb on a date ( movies, dinner, coffee, lunch, hike)

eg. He’s cute! Ask him out!

eg. He’s asking me out!

eg. She asked him out yesterday.

eg. My boyfriend asked me out when we were teenagers.

eg. I will ask my mother out to go out lunch for tomorrow.

appointment – doctor, dentist, hair, spa

meet / meeting / met / will meet up with sb or at some place

eg. I meet up with my friends for coffee every week.

eg. He’s meeting up with his girlfriend today.

eg. I met up with him every month.

eg. We will meet up at the gym tomorrow.