Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Try had done / did / have done again 🙂

Vocabulary

encourage – feels like they’re low, and they need a push

motivate – just push

progress (next step) / improvement (better)
eg. you’re making progress = you’re improving
eg2. your progress is good!
eg3. the car is progressing along the road

the class before last < > the class after next 
the day before yesterday < > the day after tomorrow 
the week before last < > the week after next 

creativity / imagination – your ability to be creative / to imagine things
creative (adj)
eg. this is so creative! Your creativity is amazing!
eg2. I think creativity is so important for artists

Grammar

i am unhappy with no reason – for no reason

I will meet up with sb

we tell them which part their kid is doing well or could do better in

I am doing well in this part

I want to go to that place
I don’t know which place you want to go to

Our training center held a drawing test lat weekend.Although I was in charge of it and every teacher had to motivate?/encourage? their students to take this test, from our professional view ,to be honest, none of us would give a positive comment on this type of test.

Why do I say that? Because of some important reasons.First, some exam requirements are unreasonable,such as for some subjects it requires children to complete paintings which are far beyond their abilities,so it’s almost impossible to finish it at their age.Second, it limited the imagination and creativity ability of children and their nature.If anyone see those paintings they would agree with me,because they would find that the style of those paintings are so behind the times ,boring and lack of vitality.

We teachers don’t think that most kids could pass this kind of tests if we don’t teach them by using some special tutorials or I should say that they couldn’t even have finished it without our help.
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I made some sentences by using did,have done and had done:
I tired oil painting when i was a teaching assistant of my teacher’s painting studio. But I had tried it only once in that short period and I haven’t tried it again after that.

Our training center held a drawing test last weekend.Although I was in charge of it and every teacher had to motivate/encourage their students to take this test, from our professional view ,to be honest, none of us would have anything good to say about this type of test / none of us really like this kind of test / all of us think this kind of test is useless / pointless / a waste of time.

Why do I say that? Because of some important reasons.Firstly, some exam requirements are unreasonable,such as for some subjects it requires children to complete paintings which are far beyond their abilities,so it’s almost impossible to finish it at their age. Secondly, it limited the imagination (n) and creative (adj) ability / and creativity (n) of children and their nature. If anyone sees / saw those paintings they would agree with me, because they would find that the style of those paintings is so behind the times, boring and lack of vitality / old fashioned, bland, and lifeless.

We teachers don’t think that most kids could pass this kind of test / these kinds of tests if we didn’t teach them by using some special tutorials or I should say that they couldn’t even have finished it without our help.
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I made some sentences by using did,have done and had done:
I tried oil painting when i was a teaching assistant of my teacher’s painting studio, but I had tried it only once in that short period and I haven’t tried it again after that. Before she showed me oil painting, I had never tried it, and by the time I left the studio I had only done it once.

My teacher showed me oil paining last week.

Oh you had never tried it?

Yeah I hadn’t.

But you have tried it now, right?

Yes I have.