Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Read this article, and write down any words you don’t know, or are not very familiar with, or don’t use much. When you come for class next you will summarise the article and use some of these words when summarising. Then we’ll discuss the topic and help you use the vocabulary you wrote down in sentences.

Article:

The G7 Summit has ended with the creation of a plan called Build Back Better World, shortened to B3W. A key feature of this plan is a series of global economic initiatives. The White House said the G7 nations would coordinate in mobilizing private-sector capital in four areas – climate, health and health security, digital technology, and gender equity and equality. It will fund infrastructure projects and improve trade routes.

The White House added: “B3W will be global in scope, from Latin America…to the Indo-Pacific….The initiative will cover low- and middle-income countries.” Another Summit promise was to vaccinate a billion people in poorer countries. Other promises included improving early warning systems to prepare for any future health crisis, a green revolution to cut CO2 emissions, and educating 40 million more girls by 2026.

From: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/

Grammar

did you back to china? – did you come back to China / have you come back to China

Did you do sth / I went there
Have you done sth / I have been there

i’m on my busy work – my work was really busy at that time / I was busy with my work / it was my busy period at work

most time we are free on weekend – most of the time

we need to relax ourselves – we need to relax 

fly
flew 
have flown 

Vocabulary

initiative – plan / proposal / idea
eg. I came up with a new initiative to fix this problem

relatively unknown place

break up – xin hao bu hao / relationship ending
break – has a problem so can’t use it
eg. sorry I can’t hear you, you’re breaking up

tender: 嫩

Michelin star: 米其林

in a very remote area: 在一个非常偏僻的地方
eg. we took a car to the remote area to see the northern lights

you cannot change the nature of his job: 你没有办法改变他的工作性质

state owned company: 国企/央企

step-mother: 后妈

suspicious: 怀疑的

when I was in canada i went to yellowknife to see the northern lights, but the temperature was very low, i remember it’s minus 45, it’s very cold and my phone broke up, cannot open at that time, and we drank many bottles of hot chocolate, so cheap. But anyway the view is beautiful but the whole environment is not friendly. So we cannot find the enough food there because it’s too cold and big / heavy snow and the restaurant were not open at that time so it’s not enough food for you, that’s the problem we met at that time. We had food in the hotel but it’s fast food I think so it cannot last for very long time. Maybe the food is only enough for 1 day or 2 day but it cannot enough for 1 week.

when I was in canada i went to yellowknife to see / view / have a look at the northern lights, but the temperature was very low / it was very cold / it was freezing, i remember it was minus 45 which is very cold and my phone was broken / my phone didn’t work, and I couldn’t turn it on at that time, and we drank many cups of hot chocolate. But anyway the view was beautiful but the whole environment was not friendly / was unfriendly / was hostile / was inhospitable. So we couldn’t find the enough food there because it was too cold and there was a heavy snow / it snowed heavily and the restaurants were not open at that time so there wasn’t enough food for us, so that was the problem we met at that time. We had food in the hotel but it was fast food I think so it cannot last for a very long time. Maybe the food is only enough for 1 day or 2 days but it was not enough for 1 week.