Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Do some writing using the words from today… maybe you can write about some things you learned from the 2 day course last weekend, and about how you feel about dogs and cats in China compared to the way they are treated in the west.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Vocabulary

tight / tense – physical
eg. my muscles feel really tense
eg2. I was really tense so I needed a massage

nervous – emotion – fear / scared – before a scary event (wedding / presentation)
stressed – emotion – tired / pressure – after too much work (2 days of class / after the wedding)

I can’t configure – I can’t tell the difference between X & Y

influence – from a higher level
negotiate – from the same level
pursue – from a lower level

survey / questionnaire – questions which are part of research / study
research – any kind of learning / investigation / searching

I’m depressed (feeling / sickness)
I have depression (sickness)

ignorance is bliss = sometimes not knowing is better than knowing

self confidence 
eg. he is very self confident / he has a lot of self confidence

this was their 10th time doing this course / they’ve done this course 10 times

scab – a hard covering on your skin after you cut it

desex / neutered / spayed – cut animals so they can’t have babies
eg. my dog has been desexed / my dog has been neutered

stray dog / stray cat

Grammar

I hug you
I hit it
I love coffee

I hug OBJECT
I hit OBJECT
I love OBJECT

listen the class – listen to the class

I listen to music
I talk to a person

before courses – previous / past courses

I had my class at weekend – I had my class at the weekend / on the weekend (at the end of the week)

last weekend I had 2 day classes – Last week I had 2 days of class / I had so much coffee / I had 2 cups of coffee 

my head and my shoulder feel nervous – I felt stressed and my shoulders were tight / tense 

after I grew up I have not – since I grew up I have not

there is lots of beautiful seaside – there are lots of beautiful beaches

some people who like to diving – who like diving / who like to dive

from they’re very young – from when they’re very young

xiao long xia is grow up in a small lake – xiao long xia live in small lakes