F2F Class Notes (Li)

Vocabulary

junior high school – after grade 6 before high school

primary school – grades 1-6

motivation – desire or willingness to do sth

ex. I don’t have the motivation to get up early these days.

alien –  wai xing ren

Grammar

I am a hard worker – noun

I am very hard-working – adj

I work hard to earn

work – verb

hard – adv

verb 1 + to + verb 2 

ex. I work to earn money.

ex. I want to sleep early.

ex. I drink coffee to stay awake.

Writing exercise

Traffic today is as heavy as usual.
I want to be a person/somebody like my dad, who is a hard worker.
My boss likes employees who are hard-working
Every day, I have a lot of work to do, so now I want to have three days off.
I work hard to earn a lot of money to buy a big house
Now my mum is making the filling for dumplings
You need to eat the food slowly to savor it.
I don’t like people that try many samples but don’t buy it
I want to order fried bean with salted egg yolk.
The cream I bought last time doesn’t suit me at all, I should choose one according to my skin type. By the way, I have oily skin.
The greasy man next to me is blind.
After lunch, I felt sick in my stomach, maybe the lunch is very heavy.
I can’t eat fatty foods, because I’m on a diet.
Exercise can make people lose fat.
My dad usually eat light food since he is ill
If your body is high on cholesterol, it’s a dangerous sign
We should have a glass of milk to keep our protein levels up every day.
The Chinese traditional diet rarely requires you to eat raw fish or meat, so we think it’s not healthy.
People in this town are very foreign to me, because I just moved here.
Water is essential to humans.
If necessary, you can also call me at midnight.
You can’t be very straight forward to your boss in China, otherwise it’s hard to get a promotion.

Pronunciation

alien – ay -lee-yan