Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

educate and entertain – to both teach and make them have fun

crab – xie
eg. we went fishing for crab

you can buy the ones that you fish catch / I went fishing and we caught some crabs  

we only need 1 hours to go to the island – it only takes … we only need to spend…
eg. it usually takes an hour to get there but it took us 5 hours to get there

team – 1 member of our group

we took the highway

get off the highway < > get on the highway

bumper to bumper – really bad traffic and you move really slowly
eg. man.. it was bumper to bumper the whole way there

accident / fender bender
eg. there were many accidents on the highway

self-driving car
eg. i think self driving cars will be really common in the future

buy sth outright / all at once / in one go – to pay for something all at first

1st installment – the first payment for something
eg. the 1st installment is 50,000 RMB – after that each month I need to pay 2000 RMB

immigrate – yi min
eg. I want to immigrate to the US

insurance – bao xian

safety net – some money / insurance etc to keep your family safe in the future
eg. I have 100,000 RMB in the bank as a safety net

my phone died – out of power 

Grammar

the reason which caused the traffic bad – the reason for the bad traffic was…