F2F Class Notes (JJ)

I completed a big thing last week that I was get married.I am very luckly because I married to love. my husband and I get together for more than ten years. we experiencing from school to society. During the university we were in different country and to see each other just on vacation. time goes by we finally graduated and to get to work in Shanghai together and we start to a new staging. In daily life we are friend and lover as well,we trust each other and encourage each other when someone down. I wish we can hold this love to forever.

Revised:

I accomplished something big/very important last week: I got married!

I accomplished something big last week and got married.

Vocabulary

rare: 罕见的

Ex: It is very rare nowadays for couples to date for more than a decade before they get married.

nowadays: 当今…

decade: 十年

accomplish: 更有成就的完成一件事情

to get married: 去结婚

be married: 已婚的

was married: 我曾经结过婚

honestly: frankly, to be honest, to be frank

extremely: 非常非常!

hardly: barely 几乎不怎么做什么

Ex: He hardly works hard. He barely works hard.

bare feet: 光脚

bare hands: 纯靠手做什么事情

Ex: JJ made a handbag for her friend with her bare hands.

go home: 回家

Grammar

Adverb: to describe a verb (不是形容词)

__ly: 辅助动词的形容 (ex: happily, sadly, busily, honestly, slowly, really, finally, firstly, secondly, unfortunately, extremely, especially, hardly, sincerely, barely)

Ex: Her grandfather is very old and walks very slowly. (walk slowly)

Never say: He is very slowly —> he is very slow.

Ex: She is happily watching TV.

She happily watched TV.

Ex: At the end of every summer, my husband sadly leaves China to go to Australia for school/to study.

Ex: Today is Women’s Day and I would like to go home but unfortunately, I have to go back/return to work.

Ex: When my husband decided to move back to China, I was extremely happy at the time/at that moment.

I was extremely happy at the moment when my husband decided to move back to China.

Homework

What would you do if you actually had half a day off on Women’s Day. Try to use the sentence structure we learned today.