F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Demo StudentSasha

Vocabulary

leave – go away from a place

eg: I will leave in 3 days. I’m going back to Belarus.

eg: I left(past) Belarus 1 month ago. I came(past) to Shanghai 1 month ago.

IN (future time)  – in 3 days, 3 days later

eg: Today is the 18th, in 3 days it will be the 21st.

eg: We will finish class in about 50 minutes.

You still have 4 weeks here?

No, I just/only have 3 days here.

I only have 3 days left here.

We have 50 minutes left in class.

We only have 20 minutes to go the store.

I have been here for 4 weeks.

You have been here for 4 weeks.

You have been here for 4 weeks?

Grammar

Common Grammar Mistakes:

May  I     or     Can I?      (Actually have different meanings)

May I use your phone?   (Grammar is correct, right word choice)  (Correct, but Too formal )

May I go to the bathroom?

May – asking for permission, will someone let you do something

  1. You may enter.      You may open your test books now.      (Permission)
  2. He may arrive late.         (possibility 50/50)   (Might)

Might – a possibility 50/50,

eg: I might get the job.

eg; It looks like it might rain.

Can I use your phone?   (Grammar is incorrect, bad word choice)   (Incorrect, but very common)

eg:  Can dogs swim? Yes, dogs can swim.

eg: Can you speak Chinese? No, I can’t.

Can – have the ability to do something, is it possible or not

Me and my friends.         My friends and me. (Common, but incorrect)

My friends and I.   (Correct, but uncommon, too formal?)

In-    prefix

1.

not; non-: incredible, insincere, illegal, imperfect, irregular Compare un-1
Incorrect. Indefinite.
Un-  prefix
1. denoting reversal of an action or state: uncover, untangle
Uncommon.   Un

Unacceptable Grammar Mistake

Plural  – more than one

I have two cat.      I have two cats.

Singular – only one

I have a cat.(any cat/ not specific one)  I have the cat. (a specific cat) I have that cat.

A – any one

Give me a cup. (any cup)

The – Specific one

Give me the cup (we know which cup)

Give me my cup. (we know which cup)

With Countable Nouns, you should always SPECIFY, use, A, THE, MY, YOUR, HIS, HER

Can I have the cup with the clean water. (Too complicated)

With uncountable Noun, don’t really need to specify.

Can I have some clean drinking water.

Can I have some dirty tap water.

We only have well water.

Links:

Dictionary.com

learnersdictionary.com (easier dictionary)

Learnenglish.de    (Learning website with everything)

https://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/sentencetext.html