F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

take our passports with us / bring our passports

4 ways of transportation

it looks very modern

frostbite – when your skin gets too cold and turns black

eg: I got a little frostbite on my finger, and I’m still recovering.

get to (place)  – arrive

eg: We got to Beijing in about 6 hours.

eg: When will you get here/there/home?

eg: I got home around 9pm.

hawthorne berries – large red berries, often coverec in candy syrup, sold in Beijing during Spring Festival

eg: I love those hawthorne candies.

round trip ticket – a ticket to fly one place, and then back to the same place you left from.

eg: I bought a round trip ticket to SF from SH for $200.

Grammar

when anyone does this (Usually or Every time they do it)

Active:

I bought tickets.

Passive:

Tickets were bought.

I went to BJ last weekend, I didn’t go to there on Friday night , but when we arrived there find return fly tickets used passport to buy, but we didn’t take our passports. So we had to handle it, first time we called the where going website . they told us they can help us, but they only can change the Chinese name or ID number of the ticket, they can’t change both of them, if we check in, they required the number and the name were same. I asked for airport’s worker how to do it, if we only change ID number can we check in and aboard a plane, the worker told us , You guys can do it but have to in 40 minutes before, you guys change it too late. That’s badly for us, so we had to change vehicle for high-speed train from Shanghai to Beijing. We checked out of high-speed train tickets, it was not easy to buy because it was nearly the Chinese New Year we called “Spring Festival peak travel season” we had to spend more money than before to buy it. We had three plans, plan A we bought tickets from Shanghai to Beijing, plan B we bought tickets from Shanghai to the next station. Plan C we bought them both, we decided to use plan C. Finally we bought tickets from Shanghai to Beijing, it was really tired traveling.

I went to BJ last weekend, I decided to go there on Friday night, but when we got to the airport  we found out our round trip tickets were bought with our passports, but we didn’t bring our  passports. So we had to handle it, at first we called the travel website. They told us they can help us, but they only can change the Chinese name or ID number of the ticket, they can’t change both of them, if we check in, they require the number and the name are the same. I asked an airport worker how to do it, if we only change the ID number can we check in and board (V.) a plane, the worker told us , You guys can do it but have to show up 40 minutes before, you guys changed it too late. That’s so bad for us, so we had to change to a high-speed train from Shanghai to Beijing. We checked out high-speed train tickets, they were not easy to buy because it is near Chinese New Year we call it “Spring Festival peak travel season” we had to spend more money than before to buy it. We had three plans, plan A we buy tickets from Shanghai to Beijing, plan B we buy tickets from Shanghai to the next station. Plan C we bought them both, we decided to use plan C. Finally we bought tickets from Shanghai to Beijing, it was a really long trip.

Pronunciation

exhibitions – Eggz uh Bih shun