F2F Class Notes _4th Apr (Harmony)

Review:

this 1 weeks – this past week / this last 1 week 

temporarily – “tem por air ri lee”

Where I work – The company I am working for/ The company where I work.

cooking utensils (tongs, spatula):  tools used for cooking.

Shopping Cart:  the place to put items that you are going to buy.

Ex:  If I find something I like on taobao, I will put it in my shopping cart.

Appliance:  an item that has one specific use, usually it’s electronic.

Ex:  washing machine, oven, tv, dishwasher.

Ex:  My friends bought all their appliances on taobao.

Saucer:  the dish that a tea cup will sit on.

Ex:  I bought a silver cup and saucer from the 1980’s.

Haven’t the (chinglish) = don’t have (do not have)

Ex: I haven’t been to korea (have not), so I don’t have any Korean frirends.

We haven’t the other choice = we have not the other choice – I have no other choice.  

Storytelling:

Cooking Utensils, Shopping cart, Appliance, Saucer

Yesterday my brother came back from California to visit my house.  And he carried some cooking utensils for a gift to me.  I was making a wonderful dinner for him, and have a good talk with him.  We are talking about e-shopping in the united states and he told me that it was very easy to buy things on the e-shopping website like amazon.com.  You should only put the things you like to buy in the shopping cart and pay it by your credit card online.  So we are agree e-shopping trend is very popular around the world, no matter in United States or in China.  At that time my mother began to washing the clothes in our old clothing machine.  Because the machine is too old it stopped suddenly.  Then my brother told us he can try to repair this appliance.  After awhile this appliance was fixed and going to work well.  My mother and I were surprised to what my brothers done in this 30 minutes.  We thought he is really grow up yet.  For expressing thanks my mother makes a cup of tea to my brother, she handed him a teacup and saucer.  My brother was so happy to taste Chinese tea again after one year he left from Shanghai.

Yesterday my brother came back from California to visit my house. He carried some cooking utensils as a gift for me.  I was making a wonderful dinner for him, and having a good talk with him.  We were talking about e-shopping in the United States and he told me that it is very easy to buy things on the e-shopping website like amazon.com.  You should only put the things you would like to buy in the shopping cart and pay it with your credit card online.  So we both agree that the e-shopping trend is very popular around the world, no matter if in the United States or in China.  Meanwhile, my mother began to wash the clothes in our old washing machine.  Because the machine is too old it stopped working suddenly.  Then my brother told us he can try to repair this appliance.  After awhile this appliance was fixed and going to work well.  My mother and I were surprised at what my brother had done in 30 minutes.  We thought he has really grown up.  To express thanks my mother made a cup of tea for my brother, she handed him a teacup and saucer.  My brother was so happy to taste Chinese tea again after the one year he was gone from Shanghai.

• He gave a gift to me.
• The gift was for me.

He carried some cooking utensils to give as a gift to me.

At that time = meanwhile

Spoiled:  When someone has been given everything, they aren’t sure how to take care of things themselves.

Ex:  My uncle spoiled my brother.  My brother was spoiled.