F2F Class Notes March 23rd (Ben)

Vocabulary

an itinerary

a tulip 

a beer tap

tell apart = 分辨 

At the end of the production line, you shouldn’t be able to tell 2 different bottles apart, no matter which country they were made in.

liberal, progressive

=/= traditional, classical 

dub 配音

Dutch people don’t dub movies, they subtitle them.

I like subtitled movies more than dubbed movies.

They don’t agree with legal drugs.

They don’t agree with keeping drugs legal. They want to make drugs illegal (again).

Grammar

The Netherlands is the speak English countries that is the best. –>

The Netherlands is the country that speaks English the best in Europe.

• one sentence has one subject and one verb
• 从句：starts with that, which, what, where, when, whose, how

The conditional sounds more polite

Can I come? –> Could I come?

Can you send me the list? –> Could you send me the list, please?

Will you accept to work more? –> Would you accept to work a little more?

Do you mind sending me the list? –> Would you mind sending me the list?

Do you mind if we do it my way? –> Would you mind if we did it my way?

Pronunciation

says = sez

size = sAAAAAA iz

staff = st AAAAA f

stuff = stuf