F2F Class Notes March 7th (Ben)
Vocabulary
scared
get your point across = make people understand you
a language barrier
a Freudian slip = when you want to say one thing but you say another
Grammar
take
It takes 5 hours from Shanghai to Beijing.
It took me 40 minutes to explain something that I can explain in 5 in Spanish.
I have never lived abroad.
somewhere else = in another place
I’ll go back to Spain if my boyfriend isn’t sent somewhere else.
not + at all
I’m not stressed at all. I feel very relaxed.
I’m not sad at all. I’m very happy.
Never mind = when something isn’t needed anymore
- Do you still need me to give you a lift?
- Oh thanks, but never mind, I found a taxi.
I don’t mind = all choices are OK with me
(It) doesn’t matter = it’s not important
- It’s raining but I don’t mind, I’ll still go to the party. I will probably be wet when I get there. That’s too bad, because I wanted to be pretty. But after all, it doesn’t matter.
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