Online Class Notes (Jesse)

talked a lot about starting sentences with SVO (subject verb object) and THEN adding details like “for a long time” or “in 30 minutes”

Vocabulary

relatives – everyone in your family
immediate family – kids, partner (maybe parents)
extended relatives – everyone else (cousins, aunties / uncles…etc)
eg. I’m staying with my immediate family but I’m visiting my extended relatives

I feel familiar about them – it’s really nice to see them again / seeing them makes me reminisce about my childhood 

cozy – warm (physically comfortable)
eg. sitting by the fire is really cozy

reminisce – to remember / talk about / think about the past
eg. over the last few days I’ve been reminiscing about my childhood

they took some bad decisions – they made some bad decisions 

side effects – problems you feel related to taking medicine
eg. I had some side effects after the first shot

insert (bigger, card, larger object) / inject (small, liquid, medicine)

good
well 
eg. I am good / this coffee is good
eg2. I speak English well

Grammar

I have over 3 years haven’t came back – I haven’t come back to my hometown for / in over 3 years

I well prepared – I was well prepared 

there are 2 persons – there are 2 people

person (1) / persons (2 + ge ren)
people (2+) / peoples (2+ types of people like asian, indian etc)

there are 2 people, working in my company / there are 2 people who work in my company

they don’t qualify their positions – they don’t meet the requirements of their positions / they aren’t qualified for their positions 

they don’t qualify (verb)
they aren’t qualified (adj) / they are not qualified (adj)

they don’t have skills to handle with these issues – they don’t have enough skills to figure out the issues / to handle the issues 

please handle this project with care = please be careful when you’re handling this project

I always went to her home when summer holidays – during summer holidays

Pronunciation

fired – “f eye rrdd”

shot – short “oh” 

noun – aaaooooo – “naaaooooon” 

apple
egg
inside
orange
up

weird – weee rrrdd 
eg. he’s so weird!

while – w eye ll