F2F Class Notes (Ben) [S] ***
Grammar
- Are you having a hectic day today?
- No, I’m not.
Vocabulary
tighten = to make tight
To make rice dumplings, you must stuff leaves with rice and tighten them with some thread.
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engage sb = hire / engage a conversation with
We need to engage a new assistant. No, I won’t make coffee for you; I wasn’t engaged to do this.
When I see new people, I like to engage them in the conversation so they feel better.
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sarcasmÂ
- There is a special iPhone that sells for 50,000 RMB !
- Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable price for a phone.
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- It’s very cheap, it’s only 10,000 RMB
- Yeah, you should have bought the 50,000-one.
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a movie where
It reminds me of a movie where several friends go on a journey, but it starts raining and their car breaks down halfway, and one of them says “What a wonderful trip”.
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on halfway –> halfway
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procrastinate = delay something that you should do, usually because you don’t want to do it
- I bought a book about procrastination and how to stop it.
- And?
- I’ll start reading it tomorrow.
- That’s interesting.
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One day, I took my son to a playground where there were a lot of children and parents. Suddenly, a little girl’s balloon fell to the ground. My son saw it and he wanted to pick it up and give it back to the girl. Immediately when he touched the balloon, the girl’s mother said “This is mine” and she grabbed the balloon; and I told her “We just want to help”. I felt very disappointed to see adults become more and more indifferent.
They refused to help, neither be helped and they only considers what strangers want to do for them in a negative way. My son looked at me with a look of confusion, which made me felt so sad that if this is what parents show their children, I can’t imagine what this society / our country will look like when the next generation grow up.
This mom was a piece of work. Maybe she didn’t know children don’t only learn from what we tell them. They learn more from what they see every day.
It is empathetic for the little girl if she keep seeing her mother walking over other people and her friendliness will wear off. There are a lot of things we have to teach our children, but one of the most important thing is letting them know how to engage with others properly.
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One day, I took my son to a playground where there were a lot of children and parents. Suddenly, a little girl’s air balloon fell to the ground. My son saw it and he wanted to pick it up and give it back to the girl.
As soon as he touched the balloon, the girl’s mother said “This is ours” and she snatched it. I told her “We just wanted to help”. I always feel very disappointed to see adults be so indifferent (to other people), who refuse to help or be helped and who only see what strangers want to do for them in a negative way.
TBC
My son looked at me with a look of confusion, which made me feel so sad that if this is what parents show their children, I can’t imagine what this society / our country will look like when the next generation grow up.
This mom was a piece of work. Maybe she didn’t know children don’t only learn from what we tell them. They learn more from what they see every day.
It is empathetic for the little girl if she keep seeing her mother walking over other people and her friendliness will wear off. There are a lot of things we have to teach our children, but one of the most important thing is letting them know how to engage with others properly.
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snatch = to take something quickly and rudely
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