Online Class Notes (Jesse)

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1c) Your First Day at University + other related university topics including experience at university etc.

Do some writing like a diary, using some of the vocabulary and grammar from today. Write about your recent life, experiences, and mood.

The first movie I am going to tell which is the movie acted by my favorite actor YiYangQianXi, and the movie is launched three year ago. I watched it for almost 2 hours.
Next one is HarryPotter season 1 and 2. The movies are launched many years ago, but I saw them just one week ago. I saw the season one for 2 hours and then the season two for another 2 hours.

Instead of a movie, the last one i want to say a lastly popular Korean series called Squid Game. There are 9 episodes in season one, and each episode has 40min-1hour long. I saw this series 2 days ago, and this series got the second place on NETFLIX.

The first movie I am going to tell you which (is a movie which) was acted by my favorite actor YiYangQianXi, and the movie was launched three years ago. I watched it for almost 2 hours.
Next one is HarryPotter season 1 and 2 / are the first and second HP movies. The movies were launched many years ago, but I saw them just one week ago. I watched the first movie for 2 hours and then the second movie for another 2 hours.

Instead of a movie, the last one i want to say is a recently popular Korean series called Squid Game. There are 9 episodes in season one, and each episode has 40min-1hour long. I saw / watched this series 2 days ago, and it got the second place on NETFLIX.

Vocabulary

work / job / company – difference

Company – organization
Work – action / place /  things you do
Job – responsibilities / project / position

I’m at work, working on my work.

It’s my job to finish this job or my boss will make me quit my job.

bite / bit 
bark / barked 

first tier universities / cities

combined / combination 
eg. it’s a combined major – 2 degrees
eg2. economics is a combination of finance and maths

basic requirement
eg. having a degree in china is a basic requirement / must-have

Grammar

before 2 weeks – the first 2 weeks

at wednesday, and weekend – on Wednesday and the weekend

joined to the next project – joined the next project 

I hug sb
I join sth
I tell sb

SVO which is black
I have a pen which is black.

the first person I’m going to tell you is a friend who is fat.
the first movie I’m going to tell you is one which was acted by…

I should be like them
I should like them

I am like them / I’m similar to them
I like them / xi huan

see – ability / experience
watch – focus on sth / moving

I have seen that TV show = I have that experience / I have watched it before
I have seen that movie = I have that experience / I have watched it before

I have watched that TV show = maybe I saw 1 episode / maybe more

I have watched that movie = I have watched all of that movie

I watch that tv show = I often watch it, every week, every month
I see that tv show

higher < > lower + than 
above < > below
eg. I live below another family
eg2. My apartment is on level 10, but theirs is on level 11. My apartment is lower than theirs.

I still finish my universities – I still finished university 

I finish university = to complete university studies
this is my university = this is the university that I went to

I finished my work = you completed the work that your boss gave you
I finished work = xia ban

after I know my university entrance exam result my grades is higher than the 2nd level but below than the first level. In my opinion I want to have a major like economic or sth like this but before of my scores I have to choose my major so I can go to a good university, i have no choice, so before I start my uni life i’m upset because i don’t like telecoms this major, it needs a lot of maths, physical knowledge, and I’m not good at them, so I’m very upset I know I have to study this major in the future 4 years. So I think on the first day I walked into university I have a complicated mood, with happy but also with some anxiety. When I’m a child my dream I could be a clothes designed but it a small major and I should good at drawing if you want to be a clothes designer but I’m not good at drawing so I give up this dream…

after I got / found out / learned my university entrance exam result, my grades were higher than the 2nd tier universities but below than / lower than the first tier. In my opinion I wanted to have a major like economics or sth like this but because of my scores I had to choose my major so I could go to a good university, i had no choice, so before I started my uni life I was upset because i didn’t like the major of telecoms, as it needs a lot of maths, physics knowledge, and I’ve never been good at them, so I was very upset when I realised / found out / learned I had to study this major in the future 4 years / next 4 years. So I think on the first day I walked into university I have a complicated mood, with happy but also with some anxiety. When I’m a child my dream I could be a clothes designed but it a small major and I should good at drawing if you want to be a clothes designer but I’m not good at drawing so I give up this dream…