Online Class Notes (Jesse) [21.5]

Read a story / article or watch a tv show or movie, and try to tell the story into a voice recorder. Listen back to it and see if you can find any mistakes. Tell the story again and try to avoid the same mistakes.

Or

Read a corrected writing or speaking we did in class and try to retell it, avoiding the same mistakes.

Follow your grammar instincts + try to use “that” to add sentences after a verb like: I know that your name is Penny and that you are in a bad mood.
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My mom went to “YuShu” where/that Tibet is nearby two weeks ago, and I stayed at home alone with my cat. I felt that I have been better after she left/her leaving, and I did somethings that I would not do if she staying at home, for example buy flowers, cook dinner, take care of my cat. I think that is the reason of distance can bring benefits, and people should live separate with parents.

Follow your grammar instincts + try to use “that” to add sentences after a verb like: I know that your name is Penny and that you are in a bad mood.
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2 weeks ago my mom went to “YuShu” which (and it) is near Tibet, and I stayed at home alone with my cat. I felt that I have been better after / since she left/her leaving, and I did some things that I would not do / have done if she stays / stayed at home, for example buying flowers, cooking dinner, and taking care of my cat. I think that is the reason why people say distance can bring benefit – people should live separate from parents.

Vocabulary

“distance makes the heart grow fonder”

cleanliness standards – “clen lee ness”
standards
eg. living with someone is hard because everyone has different standards

2 extremes
eg. Our mums are the 2 extremes

Grammar

where = and at that place / at the place that
eg. I went to a cafe and in that cafe you can buy good coffee. = I went to a cafe where you can buy good coffee

I like activities such as running, dancing, and playing sport.

I go home sleeping soon after. = I go home and I sleep soon after.

I search for my pen
I search my bag 

You suck. I’m not. 
You suck . I don’t

You like coffee. I don’t

You are happy (adj). I’m not.
You are a teacher (n). I’m not.

a few / a little – positive
few / little – not much – negative

money – uncountable
penny – countable

sofa – countable
furniture – uncountable

We were colleagues and because we don’t have direct relationship in my past company so that’s mean we can talk bad thing about our boss. That’s the reason we getting closer. And because my last boss / previous boss a very bad boss. He always cheat on us for the money and in every country company needs to pay the social benefit for everybody and this write down in law. If you don’t do that you’re breaking the law and my previous boss he didn’t pay the social benefit for us and he said the company will pay this at the end of the year, but you should pay that every month.