F2F Class Notes _9th Jun (Harmony)

Original:

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival Which is one of the major traditional Chinese festival.People commemorates a great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.According to local folklore he jumped into the river to commit suicide thousands of years ago.
Most of people will eat zongzi during this day,and there are many kind of Zongzi.In my hometown people prefer to like sweet Zongzi which filled with red date, then dipped Zongzi into honey.However, in southern provinces Zongzi are filled with five-spice coated fatty pork.

Edited:

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival which is one of the major traditional Chinese festivals. People commemorate a great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. According to local folklore he jumped into a river to commit suicide thousands of years ago.
Most of people will eat zongzi during this day, and there are many kinds of Zongzi. In my hometown people prefer (to eat) sweet Zongzi which is filled with red dates, then dipped into honey. However, in southern provinces Zongzi are filled with five-spice coated fatty pork.

*** remember when writing to an only English speaker/reader change zongzi to “Rice dumplings”

there are not have airport – they don’t have an airport

ignore:  to not pay attention to.

Eg.  The phone was ringing but I ignored it.

Decline:  to say no to. (hang up the phone)

Eg.  The phone was ringing, so I declined the call.

Silence:  when you turn the phone to silence to ignore the call.

Eg.  The phone was ringing so I silenced it so that I could ignore it easier.

Reading:

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1605/160501-robot-gym-1.html

Founded (fouwnded)

Open AI (open Ay – Eye)

Program (pro – gram)

Problems (prob – lem/lum)

Advance (add – vance) — stick your teeth onto your lip for the “V”

Develop (dev – ell – up)

AI: artificial intelligence (robots/computers) fake brain.

Fake:  not real.

Eg.  X-men is a fake story.

Founder

Co-founder:  a partner for the founder.

Eg.  Judy is a co-founder of Smart English.

Multi:  many/multiple/ more than one.

Multi-task:  to do more than one thing at a time.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1604/160411-money-happiness.html

sang (sayng)

love (luv)

twenty – twenteen (twun – tee)

services (ser – vis – ses)

like/liked

I like coffee (always)

I liked that coffee (specific)

I like rice dumplings

I liked that girl

I like reading

I liked that book

I like movies

I liked that movie/ I liked x-men

We got together/ we hung out

We will get together/ we will hang out

Eg.  I will hang out with my friends this weekend.