F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

wait a second

How was the dinner?

it was good. I feel satisfied

How many cocktails did you have?

I had one cup

come to my home / stop by my place (for a short time)

it’s close to my home

my friend [ from work / from yoga ]  (Where you met that person)

crab – xia, a shellfish, an animal with 8 legs and two pinchers, that lives on the sea floor

eg: In Alaska they have really big crabs. They are called

kebabs – chuanr

eg: Who doesn’t like kebabs?

shell – a hard outside part

eg: Crabs have red shells.

eg: Turtles have very strong shells. But they are very slow.

eg: I had some soft shelled crabs last night.

pinch – to squeeze (someone’s skin) between your thumb and finger often in a painful way

eg: Pinch your face.

eg: That crab pinched me. I was trying to cook it.

Dong Wu Zenme Yang:

Tell me what a CRAB is like:

It walks like this

live in water – it lives in water

it’s a seafood / it’s a kind of seafood

they color is are red

they [ their outside is hard / they have a hard shell ]

they are have 8 legs

[ they have pinchers / they can pinch you ]

Grammar

Were you here?

yes, I was in Shanghai

oh, ok, you were in Shanghai. So why didn’t you call me?

I don’t have your photo phone number