F2F Class Notes (Whitney) [W] [S]

Writing exercise

Original

Some Chinese cities that are located in the mountains around the mid-west region, their economic saturation were badly. No technical indsutry and they just have a large am0unt of resources such as different kinds of marble. I had a friend who lived in small city of Henan province before, he bursted the mountain to find marble by truck, he used the biggest truck to sold to construction company. So the environmently was destroyed and remained a lot of holes. You can guess there is a lot of dust in the air. The environment was polluted and almost house facade also have a lot of dust and people can’t work under road safety because sometimes a little rock will fall down on the road.

Corrected

Some Chinese cities that are located in the mountains around the mid-west region, there has a bad economic saturation situation. There are no technical industries and they just only have a large am0unt of natural resources, such as different kinds of marble. I had a friend who lives in this small city of Henan province before, he bursted ascended the mountain to find marble by truck and he used the biggest truck to sell all the marble sold to a construction company. So the environmently environment was destroyed and a lot of holes remained. Naturally, As you can guess there is a lot of dust in the air. The environment was polluted and almost all of the facades house facade also have a lot of dust.  and People can’t work under road safety because of poor work safety as sometimes a little  rocks will fall down on the road.

Speaking exercise

Original

In the national holidays, when I driving my car to the Zhejiang province I listened to video from my bluetooth connection that showed some famous people experience with their own business. I had a realisation that everyone will meet a lot of fail or mistakes, but you need to tell, no I need to tell to myself don’t give up and keep working. You will make your rainbow in the future.

Corrected

During In the national holidays, when I was driving my car to the Zhejiang province, I listened to a video from my via bluetooth that showed featured some famous people sharing their experiences with their starting their own business. I had a realisation that everyone will meet a lot of failures or mistakes, but I need to tell to myself to not don’t give up and keep working. You will make your rainbow in time. You will make it your own way in time.

Grammar


During the national holidays, I listen listened to a video whilst driving my car to Zhejiang province.

I heard what you said yesterday – past tense / I hear what you’re saying – present tense

Homework

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

Ascend (v): to climb or to go up

I ascended the staircase at the library.

Life is what you make of it: Instead of “you will make your own rainbow in time”

Podcast (n): a digital file that can be listened on-the-go

During the national holidays, I listened to a podcast about successful people when I was driving to the Zhejiang province.

Poor (adj): worse than usual, badly

I am doing so poorly in mathematics and science.

Next Class Focus

  1. Review grammar.
  2. Work on writing a short story/paragraph with the new words on the vocabulary list.