F2F Class Notes (Andy) [S/R]

Demo StudentCatherine

Vocabulary

(Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day) US 感恩节

apartment/condo/flat

landlord • resident • tenant

• real estate • lease
• rent
• deposit

• duplex
• loft
• utilities
• furnished/unfurnished

• penthouse
• roommate/flat mate • sublet
• contract

Grammar

My friend has been living in Canada and she came back to Shanghai recently to visit family and friends.

The ease of doing business in Hong Kong is better than it is in SH.

Expressions / Idioms

tighten your belt

the film/play was produced on a shoestring budget 这部影片/戏是小成本制作

Speaking exercise

normal apartment, my apartment is in the 6th floor, there is no elevator, but there are 3 rooms and i live with my parents. there is a university next to my apartment so my dad or many other people would like to walking in that university. and the traffic is very convenient.

I live in a small, but modern apartment compound in Puto near to Zhongshan Park.  My apartment is on the 6th floor, there is no elevator. It is a three-bedroom apartment, and I live with my parents. There is a university next to my apartment, my dad and many other people living nearby enjoy walking around the university. My apartment is located in an ideal place if you want to go anywhere in downtown Shanghai. The public transport is very convenient, for example the nearest metro station is a 5 minute walk.

Reading

An apartment (in American English) or flat (common in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a

building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment house (in American English), block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).

The term apartment is favored in North America (although flat is used in the case of a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor), whereas the term flat is commonly, but not exclusively, used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong and most Commonwealth nations.