F2F Class Notes (Tony) [W]

Vocabulary

Take a seat on the chair.     (Sit down)

Take a seat on the ground.

It’s so tiring working at the bank.

At the bank It’s tired.   (Very Confusing sentence, Is the Bank tired? The bank wants to sleep????)

I am not confident.  confidence

I haven’t found a reason to leave here.

I’ve worked there for 3 months.

spend time – You spend, or use the time.

eg: I spent 4 hours to color my hair.

take time – It takes, it uses time.

eg: It took 2 hours to color my hair.

eg: It took me 2 hours to color my hair.

eg: It takes almost 2 hours to fly to Beijing.

What do you do? I work as an Admin assistant in Shanghai at Yan Li, a Chinese financial company.

tired of – you had too much of something and now you don’t like it.

eg: I eat rice everyday, but sometimes I get tired of it.

eg: I’m tired of this hot weather, I want summer to finish.

eg: I’m tired of eating pasta, I had it every day this month.

shy – a little scared to speak, especially to new people.

eg: When I speak English, I’m shy.

clause – a part of a sentence, must have a VERB(Predicate) and NOUN(Subject)

eg: I went to the store and bought some cheese.    This sentence has 2 clauses.

awkward – an uncomfortable situation. usually embarrassing

eg: It’s awkward if you give your seat to a pregnant woman, who is really just overweight, not actually pregnant.

Tiring – it makes me want to sleep.

Tired – I want to sleep

Learning English is very tiring, except for Tony’s class, because he is awesome!

I am tired from studying.

I am too tired to work now.

Boring – I am boring.   (You are not fun, not interesting, people don’t like you)

Bored – I am bored.  (This is not fun, not interesting)

My work is not boring, I like my job.

My work is boring, I don’t like my job.

Every day I go to work by metro which is so convenient. It has 14 stops from my home to the company so when I get on the metro it’s very crowded and after 10 stops I will get a seat. It’s very comfortable to take a seat, but every time I sit down, I will find a woman with a big belly standing in front of me. And then I will hesitant to give her a seat or not because it’s hard to say she is pregnant or she only has a big belly. Giving up your seat to a pregnant woman is a traditional Chinese virtue, but it’s embarrassed that If she’s just fat. That is what happens to me almost every morning.

Every day I take the metro to work which is so convenient. There are 14 stops from my home to the company, so when I get on the metro it’s very crowded and after 10 stops I almost always get a seat. It’s very nice to get a seat, but every time I sit down, I find a woman with a big belly standing in front of me. And then I will hesitate(V.) to give her my seat or not because it’s hard to say if she is pregnant or she only has a big belly. Giving up your seat to a pregnant woman is good manners, but it’s embarrassing if she’s just overweight. That is what happens to me almost every morning.

Grammar

Simple Present Tense –     I eat,   I go,   I speak

Use this tense for something that is usually or always.

I find,    (I usually or always find)