F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Finish reading the link that Tony sent you.

Write a summary of the article.

http://www.51voa.com/VOA_Special_English/who-says-too-many-people-are-dying-from-noncommunicable-diseases-76736.html

Vocabulary

The wifi stops working whenever we want to download a paper

Whoever

Wherever

Whatever

Whichever

we should keep our personal lives separate from our work lives.

a kind of – category

wg: Tofu is a kind of bean.

kind of – almost like or similar

eg: I’m kind of hungry.

phrase – duan yu, a few words often used together

eg: How do you pronounce (Phrase) this word?

eg: You should always study phrases, not just single phrases.

Translating will only slow you down, and make your words incorrect:

Example:

Wo shuo de dui ma

I speak of correct ?   (BAD, TERRIBLE English)

Did I say that correctly/right?

Zuo le Wo shuo ne ge dui de?

Pronunciation

separate – Sep-pRitt

Websites:

51voa.com    English news stories.

learnersdictionary.com

TV SHOW:  How I met your mother.   (New version of Friends)