F2F Class Notes (Olivia)

Describe an exciting adventure/a memorable experience/joyful experience

Festivals/holiday plans

special occasion – to celebrate something, could be your birthday, graduation day etc.

Last year , special birthday

chocolate (unit)

measure something, unit (kg, kilograms, kilometer, pounds….)

bar of chocolate/chocolate bar

a bottle of milk

a pair of shoes

a pair of glasses

a bottle/glass/cup of water

Grammar

past tense: verbs

buy – bought

call- called

help – helped

are – were

am – was

do- did

give-gave

we went to Hainan Island, we went to the beach, you played with my brother, and we collected shells. Afterwards, we swam in the ocean.

structure for describing an experience. 

1: time of the experience, in year, in month, on day, in morning, afternoon

2: who was there, together with you. Maybe your family, classmates

3: the event itself. Your birthday, your trip.

4: how you felt (feel)

Example:

Last Sunday morning, I went to Disneyland with my friends. One of them is Jackie, and the other friend is Vicky.

We got to the park at around 9am, we went on a rollercoaster immediately (right away) and it was a great ride. It was very scary at first but after the ride, we were very excited.

At lunch time, we were looking for restaurants inside the park. Then Jackie suggested we should have popcorn as lunch. We loved it!

Student practice:

Last year, on Friday morning, we have had a party in our school, our classmates danced and sang. I sang with my friends too and we are were happy.

Some of us, they gave us some candies candy because they were are on in the party and we have had an activity like trick or treat. And we have had fun at the party, after that, we have had lunch in our school too.

We eat ate noodles and rice cakes. we watch watched movies too, cartoon movie, world of animals. it tells us about one girl, it knows what do animals say. This girl help all the people in all the world didn’t die. There are many many dangerous things on this boat, all the people will day. This girl help the people to life. Her dog is a very smart dog. Her dog died. Some people cried when they watch this movie. I cried too. because I think it is so make me sad.

Pronunciation

immediately

im-me-di-ate-ly

菠萝蜜： jackfruit

durian

waters water

word /world

1: Please read through this paragraph and turn all the verbs to past tense

2: Tell me what happened last Christmas holiday, please remember to use past tense in your description.

We eat ate noodles and rice cakes. we watch watched movies too, cartoon movie, world of animals. it tells us about one girl, it knows what do animals say. This girl help all the people in all the world didn’t die. There are many many dangerous things on this boat, all the people will day. This girl help the people to life. Her dog is a very smart dog. Her dog died. Some people cried when they watch this movie. I cried too. because I think it is so make me sad.