F2F Class Notes _19th Apr (Harmony)

Listening/ Repeat:

Shanghai is a international city, and there are many foreigners who are from different countries in Shanghai. They communicate with Chinese people or each other in / using / with English. To communicate smoothly, more and more people realize English is very important whenever you are at work or in life and start to learn English.On the metro, I saw many people learning English, they learned vocabulary,read English books, or read some short English articles on their phone. But most people don’t have the courage to speak, they only have the courage to read and write, including me. To overcome this difficulty, we should practice speaking frequently.

Repeat:

Shanghai is a international city and there are many foreigner people from different countries.  They communicate with Chinese people or each other with English.  So to communicate smoothly we should learn English.  More and more people realize that English is very important where they are at work or in life.  On the metro I found many people learned English, some people learn vocabularies, some people read English books, and some people read short English articles on the phone.  Most people don’t have the courage to speak, they only have the courage to reading and writing.  Including me.  To come out the difficult, we should practice speaking frequently.

Courage (kur – ege)

Haley’s Edit

Shanghai is a international city and there are many foreigner people from different countries.  They communicate with Chinese people or each other using English.  So to communicate smoothly with the foreigners we should learn English.  More and more people realize that English is very important where they are at work or in life.  On the metro I found many people learned English, some people learned vocabulary, some people read English books, and some people read short English articles on the phone.  Most people don’t have the courage to speak, they only have the courage to read and write, including me.  To come out the difficulty, we should practice speaking frequently.

Edit Together:

Shanghai is an international city and there are many foreign people from different countries.  They communicate with Chinese people or each other using English.  So to communicate smoothly with the foreigners we should learn English.  More and more people are realizing that English is very important for at work or in their life.  On the metro I saw many people learning English, some people learned vocabulary, some people read English books, and some people read short English articles on their phone.  Most people don’t have the courage to speak, they only have the courage to read and write, including me. To overcome the difficulty, we should practice speaking frequently.

Have realized/ are realizing

I saw/ I have seen/ I am seeing

Foreigner people – Foreigners/ foreign people

Encourage: to give another person courage.

Ex:  I encouraged Haley to review her English notes.

Courage:  to be brave yourself. 

Listen/ Repeat

Spring is coming, and it’s the time of changing seasons (it is in between seasons). The weather is getting warmer and all kinds of flowers are in bloom. We will take off the heavy cotton clothes, and put on the beautiful spring clothes. Now most of women will face a problem which is that there are no clothes to wear like me… I realised that I don’t have any clothes to wear, and I don’t know what i wore in spring last year. So, I am starting to buy some clothes. There is a sentence which is ” in a woman’swardrobe, there is always a lack of a piece of clothes”.

Repeat:

Spring is coming, and the weather become warmer, many flowers are in bloom.  We can take off the heavy clothes and put on the beautiful spring clothes.  Now we face a question, I don’t have the clothes to wear in spring.  I don’t know what I wear in the last spring.  So I started to buy.  There is a sentence which “in womans wardrobe, there is always lack of piece of clothes.”

Haley Edit:

Spring is coming, and the weather become warm, many flowers are in bloom.  We can take off the heavy clothes and put on the beautiful spring clothes.  Now we face a question, I don’t have the clothes to wear in spring.  I don’t know what I wear in the last spring.  So I start to buy.  There is a sentence which “in woman’s wardrobe, there is always lack of a piece of clothes.”

Edit Together:

Spring is coming, and the weather becomes warm, many flowers are in bloom.  We can take off the heavy clothes and put on beautiful spring clothes.  Now I face a problem, I don’t have the clothes to wear in spring.  I don’t know what I wore in last spring.  So I start to buy more clothes.  There is a sentence which is “in women’s wardrobe, there is always a lack of a piece of clothes.”

“Spring is coming, and the weather becomes warm, many flowers are in bloom.”

Spring is coming many flowers are in bloom.  (we removed the comma area)

• To test if the sentence structure with those two commas is okay—remove the middle part of the sandwich.
• words that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence

Johnny was late for work, which is normal for him, so he ran from his boss.

• Johnny was late for work so he ran from his boss.

EX:  Johnny was late for work so he ran from his boss.  Being late is normal for Johnny.  – boring sentence.

I am trying to learn English, which is a really hard language, so I am attending SE.

• I am trying to learn English so I am attending SE.

Tomorrow is Saturday, which we can be off of work, so we have a lot of rest time.

• Tomorrow is Saturday so we have a lot of rest time.

Flop:  to drop with a sudden bump.  Hard landing.

Ex:  We will flop the lame sentence into the middle of the other sentence.

Ex:  He entered the pool with a belly flop. All the children laughed at him.