Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Grammar

have done – present perfect (already before now)
had done – past perfect (already happened before a past time)
eg. I have taught 1 student today (Hathaway). Before we started class, I hadn’t taught any students.

urgent (adj) / urgency (n)
eg. it was an urgent thing
eg2. you need to have some urgency when you are a police officer / you need to be urgent when you are in danger / she is in urgent need of medical help

it tooks me a lot of timeit took me a lot of time 

it costs us a lot of time – it takes us a lot of time

I go to the park
He goes to the park

I went to the park
He went to the park

The dog gives me a lot of fun
The dog gave me a lot of fun

I spent time with my mum this weekend
I spent time on my video today

I just finished the preparation for my livestream

you are hard to do itit’s hard for you to do it

Vocabulary

April 22 – April 22nd / twenty second 

it was longer than I thought / than I anticipated

I’m looking forward to it – I’m excited about a future event
eg. I’m looking forward to sth (n)
eg2. I’m looking forward to the weekend / the wedding / the livestream / class.
eg3. I’m looking forward to seeing you / having class / going out.

arranged / planned for – everything
eg. I planned for my friend to come with me to go shopping
eg. I arranged for my friend to come with me
eg. I have a date with a friend to go shopping
booked / ordered – business usually

Speaking exercise

Today i have a lot of things to do. In the afternoon I will going to fix my eyebrows. I think I need to cut it. Now it grows too fast. Some of the hair is mess and then I appoint a friend with me to go shopping. He is a very beautiful girl. I will spend time with her because next day he will go to HK and at first in her plan, he want to fly to HK today but I say yeah we can change a time but since we haven’t met each other for a long time she insists we should meet today. I think friendship is important. I said I will pay for dinner but she insist she should do it. I remember my last time to have dinner with my friend is the monday before last monday and we had a very delicious hot pot and I remember the very special drink. It was made of some fruits and soda and I anticipate I will have more time to have time to spend with my friends because the time we spend with friends is very happy.

and / but / so / because / when 

Today i have a lot of things to do, for example in the afternoon I will go to fix my eyebrows and / because I think I need to cut them / I will get my eyebrows done. Now they grow too fast and some of the hair is messy and then I arranged with a friend with me to go shopping. She is a very beautiful girl and I will spend time with her because tomorrow she will go to HK and at first in her plan, she wanted / she planned to fly to HK today and I said “yeah you can”, but she insisted on meeting because we haven’t seen each other for a long time. I think friendship is important. I said I will pay for dinner but she insisted (on paying) she should do it. I remember my last time to have dinner with my friend is the monday before last monday and we had a very delicious hot pot and I remember the very special drink which was made of some fruits and soda and I’m looking forward to having more time to spend with my friends because the time we spend with friends is very happy.