F2F Class Notes November 7th (Ben)

大礼堂 a hall

牧师 a priest

说教 to preach

The priest preaches in the hall.

唱诗班 the choir

Here are some popular sayings ! 民间谚语

You are preaching to the choir. = You are trying to persuade someone who is already persuaded.

• You know, English is very important. You cannot only know one language !
• You’re preaching to the choir, I already have English classes every week.

to beat a dead horse = to keep doing something useless (if the horse is dead, there is no point beating him and hoping he stands up and walks)

• 
• You’re beating a dead horse. You know he will never say yes !

Grammar

at +  [small place – shop, work, school, the office, the airport]

in + [big place – country, city, district, etc]

on + [street / day ]

On Monday, I will be at the Apple store on Nanjing Road in Huangpu

Last week, I took part in an activity about new Beats headphones in an Apple store in Pudong.

They had invited the swimming world champion Michael Phelps

a pun 双关语

/!\ Caution ! Very bad and tasteless joke

The difference between Hitler and Michael Phelps is that Phelps was able to finish a race.

a race 赛跑  – finish a race = 跑完

a race 种族 – finish a race = 杀完种族