Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

writing exercises / practice
eg. my son is doing some writing exercises

it influences / affects our income

they separated
they live separately

officials (government)

unuseful – useless 

trick / cheat – pian

intelligent – smart

brain drain – when all the smart people / educated people leave a city or country
eg. I think there will be a brain drain in SH

manual labor – using your body to do the work

we don’t want to trouble / bother others

hide / hid / hidden

Grammar

it’s similar to what I mentioned

they care their situation – they care about their situation

badder – worse