F2F Class Notes (Tanya) [S]

Do you practice yoga?

Where did you grow up? – 你在那里长大

Guess how old I am?

Do you have other jobs?

What else do you do? – 你还做什么

Vocabulary

Masters student or graduate student – 研究生

Doctorate or PhD – 博士

international trade – 国际贸易

to guess – 猜

e.g. Can you guess how old I am?

to grow up – 长大

e.g. I grew up in Jiangxi Province.

skinny – thin, 瘦

e.g. You look very skinny.

zodiac sign – 星座

pisces – two fish

e.g. My zodiac sign is pisces.

shy － 害羞

e.g. I’m a shy girl.

North – 北

South – 南

West – 西

East – 东

forward –   qian

backward – hou

left – 左

right – you

I am envious of – 我羡慕

advantages – 好处

Original

I like to practice yoga. I’m yoga teacher, but English very very bad. I’m 24 years old. I’m a pig. My zodiac sign is pisces.

I come to Shanghai three years. I live in Changde road near Xinzha road. Every day, walk up, come to SmartEnglish. I taught yoga two years.

I practice yoga four years. I practice yoga in pure. I teach/taught yoga in jiaozhou road near wuding road. It’s called ai he yoga.

Correction

I like to practice yoga. I’m a yoga teacher, but my English is very very bad. I’m 24 years old. I’m a pig. My zodiac sign is pisces.

I came to Shanghai three years ago. I live in Changde road near Xinzha road. Every day, I walk to SmartEnglish. I have been teaching yoga for two years.

I have been practicing yoga for three years. I practice yoga in pure. I teach yoga in jiaozhou road near wuding road. The place I teach at is called ai he yoga.

I have been talking about this for three months

Grammar

I have been – an action that started in the past and is still going on

prepositions – fixed (that you have to use with verbs)

to look like

to give to