F2F Class Notes (Peter) [S]

Vocabulary

Nervous – adjective, feeling scared to do something, 紧张

Ex. You don’t need to be nervous when practicing English.

How much/how many – question word for numbers, 多少

Ex. How much water is there in the bottle? (Uncountable word)

Ex. How many cars are there on the street? (Countable word)

Ex. How many people are in the room?

Ex. How many dogs does she have?

Ex. How much time do we have?

Ex. How many people are in your family?

Cost – verb, to be worth, how much money 花费

Ex. How much does this cost? –This costs 10 kuai.

Self-conscious – not confident, feeling nervous with yourself, 不自信

Ex. I feel self-conscious when I speak English.

Roundtrip – adjective, going and coming back, 去回票

Ex. When you buy a plane ticket, you can buy a roundtrip ticket if you want to come back.

One-way – adjective, only going 单程

Ex. If you are moving, you can buy a one-way ticket.

Inconvenient – adjective, hard to do 不方便

Ex. Having no computer mouse is inconvenient.

Speaking:

Original

I a little English. I go home Spring Festival. I never speak English so 我不会了. I went back two weeks at home. My hometown is Jiangxi, Shanglao. Speed train three hours. Second-class ticket need two hundred, business class ticket need eight hundred.

Edited

I speak a little English. I went home for Spring Festival. I never speak English at home so I forgot many things. I went home for two weeks. My hometown is Shanglao in Jiangxi Province. To go by speed train, it takes three hours. A second-class ticket costs two hundred kuai; a business class ticket costs eight hundred kuai.

Pronunciation

Nervous (\ ˈnər-vəs \)

Province (\ ˈprä-vən(t)s \)

Hour (\ ˈau̇(-ə)r \)

Mouse (\ ˈmau̇s \)

Awkward (\ ˈȯ-kwərd \)