F2F Class Notes _26th Apr (Harmony)

Original:

I watched an American drama called “The Killer”, which told a story about a girl thatexperienced a trauma in a park, and passed away before the emergency personnelarrived at the crime scene.  However, her father didn’t succumb to big politicalpower after this tragedy.  He arranged and executed consecutive plans for trying to dig out the facts.  Because he wanted to reclaim her right to justice.  After he suffered a lot of extremely bad situations, he didn’t divert from his original obligation.

Retell:

I watched an American drama called “The Killer”, it’s a story about a girl that experienced a trauma and passed away before the enforcement personnel arrived at the crime scene.  However, her father didn’t succumb to the big politic power behind the tragedy.  He want to defend her daughter’s right to justice.  He arranged an consecutive plans for trying to dig out the fact. Even though he experienced a lot of extremely bad situations, he didn’t divert from the original obligation.

First Edit:

I watched an American drama called “The Killer”, it’s a story about a girl that experienced a trauma and passed away before the emergency personnel arrived at the crime scene.  However, her father didn’t succumb to the big politic power behind the tragedy.  He wanted to defend/reclaim his daughter’s right to justice.  He arranged consecutive plans for trying to dig out the facts. Even though he suffered a lot of extremely bad situations, he didn’t divert from his original obligation.

Enforcement personnel – in English we think of police/ swat team.

Emergency personnel – we think of medically trained professionals.

Storytelling:

So this Chinese drama is called “Ode to Joy”, and 5 girls live on the same floor of this apartment.  And they have different backgrounds, and different work position but it’s a happy story to gather them together to make fun for the audience.  So, the girl called Guan Guan is from a little town, who is an intern at a big company.  She is very hardworking and strict with her work.   Because she wants to pass through the intern time and get a formal position.  Yin Yin is also from a little town, who is a girl next to the door.  She is lovely but sometimes naïve.  Another girl called Xiao Mei, is a very experienced HR in a big company.  Who wants to find a rich mister right.  So, these 3 girls rent a house and share the house.  There are another two girls are a drama queens, one is from a very rich family, and the other one is a CEO who used to work on wall street.  In an old Chinese phrase, “three women can create a drama”, now we have 5.

Ode (ohd)

Strict (strickt)

Naïve (niy – eve)

CEO (See – EEE – OH) – get the “see” sound.

May’s Edit:

This Chinese drama is called “Ode to Joy”, which is a story about 5 girls living on the same floor of this apartment.  They have different backgrounds and different job positions, but it’s interesting to gather them together to make a funny story for the audience.  The girl called Guan Guan is from a little town, who is an intern at a big company.  She is very hardworking and strict with her work.  Because she wants to pass through the intern time and get a formal position.  Yin Yin is also from a little town, who is like the girl next to the door.  She is lovely but sometimes naïve.  Another girl called Xiao Mei, is a very experienced HR in a big company, who wants to find a rich mister right.  These 3 girls rent a house and share the house.  There are another two girls who are the drama queens, one is from a very rich family, and the other is a CEO who used to work on wall street.  In an old Chinese phrase, “three women can create a drama”, now we have 5.

Edit Together:

This Chinese drama is called “Ode to Joy”, which is a story about 5 girls living on the same floor of this apartment building.  They have different backgrounds and different job positions, but it’s interesting to gather them together to make a funny story for the audience.  The girl called Guan Guan is from a little town, she is an intern at a big company.  She is very hardworking and strict with her work because she wants to pass through the intern time and get a formal position.  Yin Yin is also from a little town she is very “girl next door.” She is lovely but sometimes naïve.  Another girl called Xiao Mei, is a very experienced HR worker at a big company, who wants to find a rich “mister right.” They rent a 3-bedroom apartment together.  There are another two girls who are the drama queens, one is from a very rich family, and the other is a CEO who used to work on wall street.  They each rent their own apartment.  In an old Chinese phrase, “three women can create a drama”, now we have 5.

“Apartment building”:  somewhere where people live

At a big company/ for a big company

“girl next door”

HR:  Human Resources (manager/ staff/ worker/ associate)

Ex:  Come over to my apartment later tonight (they assume it means your room in that building)

Ex:  I bought an apartment (you assume one apartment, not the entire building)

Ex:  I bought an apartment building (wow your rich!)

These 3 girls rent an apartment together.  / They rent a 3-bedroom apartment together.