F2F class notes (Lily) [R/S]

Reading

http://news.english-online.at

Vocabulary

*nervous breakdown= emotional downfall

ex: when somebody works really hard and shows that it’s useless work.

when someone worked so hard for nothing. 

*disturbing= he’s disturbing whether he passed the test–> he is anxious to know his test score. 

ex: my neighbour’s dog is very disturbing me. –>my neighbour’s dog disturbs me a lot. 

*bored= i am bored = I have nothing to do

*boring= I am boring = i am dull, no passion.

Speaking exercise

Q: tell me a situation where you have been heavily disturbed

A: some people in Shanghai, not all of them, but partly from other place in China. They are really annoying, they are enjoying better life in Shanghai right now, but they are actually just talk about shanghai weakness all the time, and some of them are not really rich too. Some people they just don’t care about rules, and overtime when this happens, everything comes to the difference between shanghai and other place. we are showing the respect to them. it kind of becomes racist.

some women is driving a bicycle on pedestrian, the police stopped her and said she can’t do this, but she said she’s from a small town, she don’t know the big rules in shanghai.

a woman is riding a bicycle on the pedestrian walk. she doesn’t know the regulations in Shanghai. 

They actually just talk about Shanghai’s weakness all the time.