Online Class Notes (Jesse)

do more practice for have done / had done / did

finish the writing from today.

Vocabulary

to distract them – to take their attention away from sth

charity 

lead by example – to teach someone indirectly by letting them see what you do, and learn from it

poor me / why is everything so unfair for me

way,method,approach and means.
way – casual
method / approach / means – formal

method – details / steps / plan
approach – general feeling / attitude
means – sth you need to do sth – that allows you to do it
eg. working is a means to earning money

Grammar

that was what I wanted to ask you = that was the thing that I wanted to ask you

cost – anything of value
take – time 
spend – time / money

we talk something – we talk about something

which – adding some new information / important information
eg. I have a pen which is black. / I have a pen which I bought in Japan.
that – to say which one you’re talking about
eg. The pen that is in my left hand is red, but the pen that is in my right hand is black.

put their imagination into their painting

there’s no limit 

I often tell the parents whose kids I teach that they should….

relax themselves – relax

Pronunciation

last night – lassnight

just because – jusbecause

Try had done / did / have done again ：

Before I went out for work I had taken a shower in the morning because I didn’t sleep well at Saturday night and i wanted to refresh myself through this way.I have just decided to go to bed earlier today.

Writting：
I watched a video about memory a few days before, it said that there are three points have the greatest impact on our memory.
One is that if you are trying to remember something that directly connect with your survival,which is your survival skills, you will learn them easily and fast ,and these things are not easy to forget as time goes by.Another point is related to our emotion,it has been improved by an experiment that when we learning some something in a happy atmosphere, then we can remember them for a longer time without remembering them intentionally. The last one is make the information more meaningful,if the information itself don’t have any meaning, we should give them a meaning ,such as process them in our mind by using some kind of logic just like most memory experts did.
On top of that,the researchers found that our memory in these three situations are little different from Ebbinghaus forgetting curve.They are more efficient.
According to the above contents, I guess if something has no effect to my survival ,then it will difficult to remember,because our brain think it’s not so imprtant. So if I want to make my memory work more efficient and have an improvement, I need to connect the memory materials with my survival needs or use them in a meaningful way and make them more practical .Such as push myself using what I’v learned in real situations as often as possible,so they can become a necessary part of my daily life.And at the same time, create a pleasant learning process and figure out some method to enhance my enthusiasm.

Questions:
The differents between these four words: way,method,approach and means.

Try had done / did / have done again ：

Before I went out to work I had taken / I took a shower in the morning because I didn’t sleep well at Saturday night and i wanted to refresh myself through this way.I have just decided to go to bed earlier tonight.

Before I went to work yesterday my hot water system suddenly broke, but luckily I had taken a shower earlier that day.

Writting：
I watched a video about memory a few days ago, and it / ago, which said that there are three points that have the greatest impact on our memory.
One is that if you are trying to remember something that directly connect with your survival,which is your survival skills, you will learn them easily and fast ,and these things are not easy to forget as time goes by.Another point is related to our emotion,it has been improved by an experiment that when we learning some something in a happy atmosphere, then we can remember them for a longer time without remembering them intentionally. The last one is make the information more meaningful,if the information itself don’t have any meaning, we should give them a meaning ,such as process them in our mind by using some kind of logic just like most memory experts did.
On top of that,the researchers found that our memory in these three situations are little different from Ebbinghaus forgetting curve.They are more efficient.
According to the above contents, I guess if something has no effect to my survival ,then it will difficult to remember,because our brain think it’s not so imprtant. So if I want to make my memory work more efficient and have an improvement, I need to connect the memory materials with my survival needs or use them in a meaningful way and make them more practical .Such as push myself using what I’v learned in real situations as often as possible,so they can become a necessary part of my daily life.And at the same time, create a pleasant learning process and figure out some method to enhance my enthusiasm.

Questions:
The difference between these four words: way,method,approach and means.