Online Class Notes (Jesse) [1]

Do a diary writing about your recent life.

and / but / so / because / when – connect your ideas and make sure you’re using long sentences.

Speaking next class: focus on past tense

I am a businessman in Dubai. I can speak two languages. I am Chinese, so my mother language is Chinese, the second is English. I have begun to learn English since over month ago, so i can’t talk with you in English with confidence. But i will try my best to improve it.
I usually watch some TV show in my free time. My favorite TV show is shengshengbuxi of hunan channel. It gives me some memories of my childhood.
I usually get up at 9 in the morning. I like staying up late, even i know not that good. I am a single. I have been single since three years ago. I don’t admire other person. I have six pets, four cats and two dogs. They are pretty cute and i love them very much. They are also my family members. I like Horror movie especially suspense kind. My favorite food is pasta, but i am losing weight recently. I lived in an apartment of international city.
Definitely i love swimming deeply. I almost go swimming everyday except i have no time. In fact, i love singing and travelling too. I have been more than 10 countries that including French Italy Japan Thailand and so on. Of course it is very interesting to travel. I usually hang out with my friends to drink on weekends. I drove my car to class.

I am a businessman in Dubai and I can speak two languages. I am Chinese, so my mother language is Chinese, and the second is English. I have begun to learn English since over a month ago, so i can’t talk with / to you in English with confidence, but i will try my best to improve it (in the future).
I usually watch some TV shows in my free time and my favorite TV show is shengshengbuxi of hunan channel because it brings / gives me some memories of my childhood / it reminds me of my childhood.
I usually get up at 9 in the morning because I like staying up late, even i know it’s not (that) good. I am a single and I have been (single) since three years ago but I don’t envy anyone / any other people. I have six really cute pets, four cats and two dogs that i love them very much and they are also my family members. I like Horror movies especially suspense and thrillers kind. My favorite food is pasta, but i am losing weight recently so I’m not eating much pasta these days. I lived in an apartment that is near China Town and is in an international city called Dragontown.
Definitely i love swimming deeply and I almost go swimming everyday except i have no time or I feel awful. In fact, i love singing and travelling too and I have been to more than 10 countries that including France, Italy, Japan, Thailand and so on. Of course it is very interesting to travel so I try to travel as much as I can. I usually hang out with my friends to (have a) drink on weekends. I drive my car to class every morning because it’s too hot outside so I can’t go shopping or go to class on foot. If I didn’t have a car, it would take too long to get everywhere. 

Grammar

tell a story or add logic – long sentences 
very clear and focused point – short sentences 

I’m not rich. But if I were rich, I would buy a house.
If I find some money on the road tomorrow, I will buy a cake.

noun – which one? how many?
verbs – what time? 

that – when do we need it? how do we use it?
and – when + how do we use it?

It is difficult for me to talk to you

I have a pen that is black. (it) = I have a pen. It is black. = I have a pen and it is black.
I like pens that are black.
Girls that are beautiful are the best.

I know that your name is Jason
I’m sorry to hear that your parents passed away

I have a pen which is black (it) = I have a pen. It is black.
I went to Japan which was really fun

I like a girl who is beautiful
She is a girl who is beautiful
I like her and she is beautiful
I like her who….

You are a teacher who has a beard

my body is painful – my body hurts 

painful (adj)
eg. it is painful when I move my eye
hurt (v)
eg. my eye hurts
eg2. yesterday my eye really hurts
pain (n)
eg. I have some pain in my eye
sore (adj)
eg. my eye is sore

Vocabulary

admire – I think they’re great
envy – I want what they have / I wish I had what they have
jealous – unhappy because someone does something and you feel it takes from you

10 kilograms

3000m / 3km

I have a diet plan – food plan
eg. I’m on a diet

carbs / carbohydrates

staple – rice / bread – main food that a culture / country eats

anxious (adj) / depressed
anxiety (n) / depression
eg. I am anxious about the meeting
eg2. I have some anxiety about the meeting

Yesterday morning I got up at about 9AM. I feel a little pain in my eye but I have to work so I do some air drops and contact my customers to handle some issues. It made me a little anxiety / a little down so yesterday I feel a little sad and I writing some sentence in my wechat so I decided to go swimming in the evening. Before it I ate diet food like egg, like chicken, and some bread.

Yesterday morning I got up at about 9AM. I felt a little pain in my eye but I had to work so I put some eye drops in my eyes and contacted my customers to handle some issues. It made me a little anxious / a little down so yesterday I felt a little sad and I wrote some sentences on my wechat / I posted about it on my wechat account so I decided to go swimming in the evening. Before it I had something to eat (I ate according to my diet) like egg, like chicken, and some bread.