Online Class Notes (Ally)

Homework

your imaginary parenting method
– influences
– general principle
– problems? solutions

Vocabulary

the one/the love of my life: 人生挚爱

foodie: 美食家 爱吃饭的人

catch-up on: 补
ie. I need to catch-up on my Kardashians show.

astronomy: 天文学

procrastinating: 拖延

set fire/put out the fire: start fire/end fire

a token of their love: 定情信物

Grammar

maybe – can be used for connections/start new sentence
ie. I want to go to Reel, maybe to try the new restaurant

might/may – in front of verbs
ie. She may/might be the love of my life.

Writing exercise

People in Shanghai have to rely on Wechat Group that is the only one way to communicate between their neighbours to exchange information and resources during the period of COVID lockdown. Meanwhile, a group of complete unknowns have to form a community of interests that is difficult to reach wholly fair and justice in a short time. Is it any wonder that anger emotion and aggressive behaviour inevitably appear in the digital public space. I counted the use of “I” and “everyone” as a subject of the sentence in one WeChat Gourp. The use of “I” were 4667 that is triple by “everyone” which were 1028. That got me thinking-is a first person view making dialogue objective while enhance the experience of emotions?

Edited:

People in Shanghai have to rely on Wechat Group that is the only one way to communicate between their neighbours to exchange information and resources during the period of COVID lockdown. Meanwhile, a group of complete unknowns have to form a community of interests that is difficult to reach wholly fair and justice in a short time. Is it any wonder that anger emotion and aggressive behaviour inevitably appear in the digital public space. I counted the use of “I” and “everyone” as a subject of the sentence in one WeChat Gourp. The use of “I” were 4667 that is triple by “everyone” which were 1028. That got me thinking-is a first person view making dialogue objective while enhance the experience of emotions?

After isolation or study abroad, I am going to create an on-going account to record a food and a name of a street might through a photo of the food, a drawing of the map and a sentence from the diner. I choose this as the content because I have a bad sense of direction but keen interest in food. In this context, the best solution seems build the connection between the memory of Taste and Direction of the street.

For example, I am living in 299 Taolin Road where is an east-west and very ordinary street in Pudong. It connects South Bund and Centry Park of Shanghai with the total length of 1.4 km. A small restaurant called 觉味燃面 is in this street, which has been recommended by The main character of the Japanese television drama named The Solitary Gourmet. What brings many diners to this restaurant is its famous 宜宾燃面 (Burning noodles of yibin), a noodle dish is a Sichuan street food with a devoted following of spice addicts. “While lips burn and eyes water, my blood vessels actually relaxed” says by a finance managers who works nearby.

Edited:

以食记路
A Food A Road

After isolation or studying abroad, I am going to create an on-going account to record a food and a name of a street, maybe through a photo of the food, a drawing of the map and a review from a foodie. I choose this as the content because I have a bad sense of direction but keen interest in food. In this context, the best solution seems to be/is building the connection between the memory of Taste and Direction of the street.

For example, I am living in 299 Taolin Road, a east-west oriented and very ordinary street in Pudong/a very ordinary street that goes from east to west. It connects South Bund and Century Park of Shanghai with a total length of 1.4 km. A small restaurant called 觉味燃面, which has been recommended by The main character of the Japanese television drama named The Solitary Gourmet, is on this street./On this street there is a small restaurant called WJRM, which…. What brings many foodies to this restaurant is its famous 宜宾燃面 (Burning noodles of yibin), a Sichuan street food with a devoted following of spice addicts. “While my lips burn and eyes water, my blood vessels actually relaxed,” says a finance manager who works nearby.