Online Class Notes (Jesse)

today I went to another garden in shanghai with my friend, Miracle Garden. It’s another place, it have a lot of flowers, a lot of people, and this garden is a big garden and have some parks where they have some dinosaur and … they move the mouth and sometimes his tail, and they put some sounds. Today for example we talking about we want to go to xinjiang or maybe north china and go the silk road but you go for some places from xinjiang, I don’t know to where / I don’t know where it finished.

today I went to another garden in shanghai with my friend which is called Miracle Garden. It’s another place, it has / there are a lot of flowers (there), and a lot of people, and it is a big garden and there is an area where they have some dinosaurs and they move their mouths and tails, and they make some sounds like a real dinosaur. Today, for example, when we were there we talked about wanting to go to xinjiang or maybe it’s in north china. This route is the silk road where you pass through some cities or places. I don’t know where it goes / I don’t know where it finishes.

Vocabulary

emotional – lots of feeling

mansion – big house / rich

villa – big house in the country

yard – outside your house (grass)

field – natural place (grass)

smelly (adj)
eg. it is smelly
smell (n / v)
eg. it smells bad / the smell is bad

the goslings hatched / the egg had not hatched 

trade – buying and selling between countries / places
eg. that was a silk trade route between xinjiang and the north

stall / cart
eg. we got fried noodles from a guy selling it out of a cart on the street

gutter oil
eg. the fried noodles had a lot of gutter oil

Grammar

We talk about ____ (n) (something)
we talked about my husband going to work
we talked about wanting (n) to go there
we talked about my job
we talked about want to go 

dancing is fun = the noun (dancing) is fun / the activity (dancing) is fun / the activity of dancing is fun

we were / we are wanting (v) – a period of time doing sth

I don’t like smelly tofu because the smell is bad. You can smell it maybe 50 meters away. One day I tried it, maybe 4 years ago, I tried to eat it, and it wasn’t too bad, but you need to eat it 100 meters away because when you eat it the flavor is different to the smell / to how it smells.