F2F Class Notes (Sonia)

Do you agree that students should not need to write exams anymore? [writing]

pattern e.g A pattern for me is to go to yoga class everyday.

numerous e.g I have numerous pairs of jeans.

Pronunciation

JEANS: GEE-N-Z

PAIRS: PEH-AIRS

th words (stick out your tongue more)

Vocabulary

(syn-same anti-opposite)

e.g

synchronise: to (cause to) happen at the same time

anti-ageing: to stop ageing

diverse adj. diversity(n)

e.g

Shanghai is a city with a diverse(adj) culture (n)

Shanghai is a city with cultural(adj) diversity (n)

various

e.g

Shanghai has a lot of people with a variety of backgrounds

Shanghai has various people

promote/improve

promote: for work/quantity

improve: for skill/quality

what do you do regularly?

Regularly, I go to office at 10 in the morning and the first thing, I will check my email everyday, and did some routine job. Always, I will book one Smart English class at noon so that I can use my lunchtime to have a class. After work I will always go to Yoga class to do some exercise to keep myself active. This is a good habit for me and I go back very late. Before I go to bed I will read some book to promote my english and professional knowledge. Usually, I prefer to eat some vegetables instead of meat for my dinner, because I think it will help me to keep healthy and also I will think it will help the world to be more healthy.

CORRECTION

I go to the office : always add the when you say a noun, especially a location

and the first thing I do is check my email/ Firstly, I check my email

work not job

try not to use some book, try to use a instead( *some is usually very unclear, indicates you are unsure! )

promote/improve

Always/ normally/ often etc: choose which adverb you use carefully!

Grammar

conjunctions: try to use more advanced vocab

because/ so/therefore/however/ if….

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1709/170913-handwriting.html

The world-renowned Cambridge University is considering abolishing handwritten exams after 800 years. University officials may ask students to type their exam answers on a computer rather than use a pen. The move follows complaints from examination markers who say they are finding test papers increasingly illegible due to poor handwriting. Academics say today’s students primarily use laptops in lectures and tutorials instead of pens. Students are losing the ability to write by hand. One academic said asking students to hand-write exams actually causes them physical difficulties. The muscles in their hand are not used to writing extensively for prolonged periods of two to three hours.

A Cambridge University lecturer, Dr Sarah Pearsall, told Britain’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ newspaper that handwriting was becoming a “lost art”. She said: “Twenty years ago, students routinely [wrote] by hand several hours a day, but now they write virtually nothing by hand, except exams.” She added: “We have been concerned for years about the declining handwriting problem. There has definitely been a downward trend. It is difficult for both the students and the examiners as it is harder and harder to read these [exam] scripts.” Dr Pearsall says some students’ handwriting is so illegible that they had to return to the university over the summer to read their answers out loud to examiners who could not read their writing.

**unfinished need to read next lesson and look through new vocabulary in text