F2F Class Notes (Tony) [W]

Demo StudentMonica W

Homework

Write a short story, Ask the teacher to only mark the mistakes,   DO NOT give you answers

Vocabulary

Decimal Point –        .              Also called a Period.   Used for numbers that are not whole.   0.5     $6.99

USA      $50,000.99    $399.99   Three hundred (And)  Ninety Nine Dollars and Ninety Nine Cents.   EU  €399,99

$1300  Thirteen hundred dollars   =  (13 X100)

$1399.99    Thirteen Ninety Nine …   ninety nine

Comma –        ,

eg: Should I put a comma here?   “Whey are there so many birds    ,    flying over our building now?

No, you don’t really need a comma there.

eg: In Europe they use commas instead of decimal points for numbers and money.

MMO – Massive Multiplayer Online

eg: There’s a Chinese game called Five Heroes. It’s like an MMO but it has teams that fight each other and try to destroy their home base.

Set up online banking – E-bank is outdated

eg: How can I set up online banking?

You need to go to the bank   (You can’t do it from home)

You need to bring your passport (You can’t do it without it)

You need to have an account at that bank.

Then:

They will give you a USB device.

You need to input a special pin number for the USB device,

Then you can access your bank account.

Pronunciation

G  Sound at the End of a word:

Like a Chinese GE,    drop the E

Hen NE           Hen GE     (Hun G’)

Hungry – Hun g’-GRee

Hung Out – Hun G’-Out

Honey – Hun-Nee

eg: I hung out with some hungry bears, eating tons of honey.

There Are – There are,      Ther’ err

Writing exercise

Tony, may i ask you a question? why are there so many people at the hall with speaking english loudly?

Monica’s Correction:

Tony, may i ask you a question? why are there so many people at the hall and speak English loudly?

Tony’s Correction:

Tony, may i ask you a question? why are there so many people at the hall and speak English  ( ? )   loudly?

Monica’s 2nd Correction:

Tony, may i ask you a question? wWhy are were there so many people at in the hall and speak speaking English very loudly?

It’s probably one of the other foreign companies here, I think there are at least 2 other foreign companies on our floor.