Online Class Notes (Jesse)

have a look for one of the books, and we’ll focus on speaking next class.

Today is the Mid-autumn Day, and we luckily have a great weather. This morning I went to the food market that is closed to where I live and I bought some fresh vegetables and sea food as I’ll prepare for the dinner later today. There were so many people coming to the food market and people who drive cars were waiting in a queue for empty parking space to be released. Inside the food market, there was a crowd of people almost at every stand and you can find people are in good mood meanwhile they were almost yelling most of the time when talked to the owner of the stand as it was so noisy around. Also the owners of some popular stands invited their family members to help their business as it was such a crazy busy Mid-autumn Day morning.

Today is the Mid-autumn festival, and we luckily have a great weather. This morning I went to the food market that is close to / that is near where I live and I bought some fresh vegetables and seafood as I’ll prepare for the dinner (the mid autumn dinner with my family) later today. There were so many people coming to the food market and people who driving cars were waiting in a queue for a parking space / for a parking space to become free. Inside the food market, there was a crowd of people / there was a crowd almost at every stand / booth / store / shop and you can find everyone is in a good mood and they were almost yelling most of the time when talking to the owner of the stand as it was so noisy and hard for them to be heard. Also the owners of some popular stands invited their family members to help their business as it was such a crazy busy Mid-autumn festival morning.

Vocabulary

thankful / thank / thanks / thank you / thank sb

Thank you for joining the call / I thank you for this = I want to thank (v) you for doing sth
I want to give thanks (n) to you for joining the call – formal / old English
I am thankful (adj) for my parents / I am thankful for everything you did for me
You should thank your parents for their hard work

appreciate / appreciative / appreciated

they already helped
I really appreciate your help (v)
Your help is very much appreciated (adj) 
I’m really appreciative of your help (adj about your feeling)
I appreciate it (v)

they will help you 
can use any of the above ones. 
I would really appreciate your help
Your help would be very much appreciated.

I appreciate my mum, which means my mum is appreciated by me.

words for people:
crowd
those of us
someone
somebody
everyone
everybody
all of them
group
shoppers
customers

curtain – chuan lian

meanwhile
eg. There were a lot of people crowding around the stand, and meanwhile they were yelling and shouting.
eg2. We are having class. Meanwhile, my mum is on the phone.

Grammar

I am close to my mum – jin / nearby
I live close to work

the shop closed at 5pm / the shop closes at 5pm / the shop closed last night at 5pm – guan men

Pronunciation

i want three cups of coffee

veh – feh
weh – oo

busy – bizzeee

cwazy – like an “o” shape
crazy – like a rabbit’s teeth