F2F Class Notes (Ben)

Vocabulary

a writer = someone who writes books or novels
Yangzhou was the home of many Chinese writers.

a number
There is a number of soldiers in Chairman Mao’s childhood home.

Grammar

Even now, he goes back to his childhood house once a year. –>
During his life, he went back to his childhood house once a year.

I can’t visited it –> I couldn’t visit it

On the way back
On the way back, we also went to Wuxi

You took a boat to the island.

a Chinese character 汉字
The character for ‘yuan’ in Yuantouzhu is very rare.

hold on = hold something for a long time and not let go

hijack = to take control of a vehicle illegally, to change its destination
Pirates and bandits can hijack planes, trucks, ships and boats.

rob a bank
Criminals rob banks and hijack planes.

strict = with little space for negotiation
He is a strict teacher. When he says no, that means no.
English grammar rules are pretty strict. If there is no verb, a sentence is almost always wrong.

Some parts of the world are hard to hold on to, especially when rock-climbing.

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