Online Class Notes (Jesse) [13.5]

My friends and I went to AnJi for the vacation last weekend. AnJi is a small city which is in the ZheJiang province. It is 250 kilometers away from Shanghai and it took me 3 hours driving there. We rented a big house where there are eight rooms in it. In front of the house lays a huge swimming pool and the children spent most of the time in it. On the first day, we had a barbecue on the playground. On the second day, we drove 20 mins from the foot to the top of the hill to attend a float match. Every family has its own boat and we didn’t need to row the boats because they will float along the river due to the height fall. The first boat that arrived the foot of the hill would be the winner. The remaining of the vacation, our children were playing games which called Sausage Man. They built their own teams to fight with the other teams. In the games, they helped each other all the time. For example, when anyone was short of blood, the nearest partner would provide a bag of blood to him and if someone picked a good tool, he would give it to his weaker partner. They had the pure happiness in the game and didn’t care about the results of it.

My friends and I went to AnJi for the vacation last weekend. AnJi is a small city which is in the ZheJiang province / My friends and I went to AnJi, which is a small city in zhejiang, for the vacation last weekend. It is 250 kilometers away from Shanghai and it took me 3 hours to drive there. We rented a big house where there are / were eight rooms in it. In front of the house lies / lay / there was / there is a huge swimming pool and the children spent most of the time in it. On the first day, we had a barbecue in the yard / front yard. On the second day, we drove 20 mins from the foot to the top of the hill to go rafting. Every family has its own boat and we didn’t need to row the boats / rafts because they will float along the river due to the slope of the hill / due to the current of the river. The first boat that arrived at the foot of the hill would be the winner. For the remainder / For the rest of the vacation / In the remaining part of the vacation, our children were playing games which called Sausage Man. They built / put together / created / made their own teams to fight with the other teams. In the games, they helped each other all the time. For example, when anyone was short of health / had low health, the nearest partner would provide a health pack to him and if someone got some good gear, he would give it to his weaker partner. They had the pure happiness in the game and didn’t care about the results of it. / The pure happiness that they felt during the game was amazing to me / made them not even care whether they won or not.

Vocabulary

attachments – the pieces of the guns you can get

gear / loot – everything you can pick up in a game

scope – a magnifying glass for a gun

nanny – a lady who takes care of kids

the current of the river

the current is really strong – the water is flowing quickly

white water rafting – very strong current rafting

Grammar

It was 2 hours driving / of driving. = The driving was 2 hours
It took 2 hours to drive there. = I took 2 hours in order to drive there

I went to a place and it was beautiful there at that time. = it’s not beautiful now
I went to a place and it is beautiful there these days. = it wasn’t beautiful in the past but it is now

the vacation to ani at 5pm on friday last weekend = already knows you were planning a vacation
a vacation to ani at 5pm on friday last weekend = just a vacation, who cares who knows what