Group Class Notes 29th February (Jesse)

Yesterday it was very warm, and the sunlight was good, so I took my daughter to the zoo. In the zoo, there were so many children and it’s also popular with the children. Fortunately, as it was very warm, most of the animals went out from their houses, it had a variety of gorillas, monkeys, sheep, fish, birds and so on. The gorillas and monkeys were very active and they often jumped and run which made people vey laugh. I most expected to see the pandas, but for the reason of time and physical strength, I had to go home. Generally speaking, yesterday was a good day.

Yesterday it was very warm, and the sunlight was good, so I took my daughter to the zoo. In the zoo, there were so many children because it’s popular with children. Fortunately, as it was very warm, most of the animals had come out from their houses, it had a variety of gorillas, monkeys, sheep, fish, birds and so on. The gorillas and monkeys were very active and they often jumped and ran around which made people laugh a lot. I was looking forward to seeing the pandas, but due to the time and my physical situation (but due to the time and me being exhausted), I had to go home. Basically / all in all, yesterday was a good day.

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came (past time – say the time) / have come (past but the time is not said) / had come (before something else in the past)
eg. Haley came to Smart English in December and she has come every week from that time. She had lived in Shanghai for 9 years before she came to Smart English.

sadly (bad + sad) / unluckily (bad + unlucky) / unfortunately (bad + disappointing + unlucky)

Generally speaking = most of the time / in most situations (usually / generally)
eg. Generally speaking, Chinese food is quite good, but there are some dishes that I don’t like.

for the reason of
eg. I was late for the same reason that I always am late.

formal < > casual 

i expect that tomorrow will be cold = i think it will be cold

i expect my students to study their notes = i think they should study them

i am looking forward to christmas = i really want christmas to come soon

i am looking forward to going out tomorrow

i can’t wait for christmas = i really want christmas to come soon

i do something a little bit / sometimes / a lot / so much / too much 

i have a little money / some money / a lot of money / so much money / too much money