F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)

Pronunciation

photo / FOE-TOE

photograph / FOE-TOE-GRAFF

photography / FUH-TAH-GRUH-FEE

Grammar

her and I / him and I / we / informal – friendly

she and I / he and I / formal

you and I / formal

you and me / informal

(the exhibition) it have two parts / it has two parts

Vocabulary

sold out / no more tickets are available 

e.g. The show sold out in 3 hours!

e..g Can I buy a ticket? No sorry, the show is sold out.

e.g. John Legend played for a sold-out audience!

May I take a photo with you (formal) / Can I take a photo with you (informal) / Would you mind taking a photo with. me? (formal/informal)

e.g. Would you mind taking a photo for us?

e.g. How did you take this picture? I took it with an iPhone.

e.g. Take a picture of me

tequila 龙 舌 兰 酒 

e.g. Normally you drink tequila shots with lime.

regret / 后悔

e.g. Every time I drink tequila I regret it. – verb

e.g. She got drunk, made bad decisions, and is now full of regret! – noun

“I’m a sucker for beautiful women / I’m a sucker for a good sale” / these things attract me very easily / these things can fool me very easily

e.g. I’m a sucker for love!

to fall in love

to have a fling / a short-lived, passionate relationship usually it’s over very quickly

e.g. Did you have a relationship with her? No, it was just a fling.

to hookup

e.g. Oh you like opera too? We should hookup then! (We should meetup)

e.g Oh do you see that girl? I hooked up with her my first week in Shanghai?

e.g. OMG did they hookup?

one-night-stand / you meet someone for the first time, you have sex on the first night, and then never speak again

e.g. Do you know Ashley? Yeah omg I know her; her and I had a one-night-stand.

“it screwed me up” /not a bad word –  it confused me

e.g. We had 2 days off because of the holiday and I didn’t realize today was Friday – the holiday screwed me up.

e.g. Dee was drawing a picture and Nicholas moved the table and it screwed up Dee’s drawing. You screwed me up!

screw you / bad term – meaning “F you”

basically / this is a simple way of talking about it 

e.g. What did you do last night? Basically I got drunk.

e.g. Are you a teacher in Shanghai? Well…basically.

basic / simple

e.g. People go shop at Uniqlo and H&M for basic clothing.

e.g. “buy your basics here at Uniqlo!”