Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Read the next chapter and write about it again, and write down the new words

weakling makes trouble and will never amount to anything… now run along

the school bus will be along in half an hour

The chapter 1 of this book, that is named Charlotte’s Web which is talked about there is a family including a couple and their children. One day morning, their daughter Fendi is eating breakfast meanwhile her father is taking ax to go outside. When Fendi knows the reason why her father takes ax to go outside, she expresses very strong emotional, because her father will kill a pig that is born not long , because of this pig is a runt.When he heard this news, she chases her father then she arrives his farm and beg her father to leave this pig , the following that his father agrees her decision.

I read chapter 1 of this book, that is named Charlotte’s Web, which talked about a story of family including a couple and their children. One day morning / one day, in the morning, their daughter Fern is eating breakfast, meanwhile her father is taking an ax to go outside. When Fern knows the reason why her father takes an / the ax to go outside, she expresses very strong emotion / she is very emotional, because her father will kill a pig that was born not long ago / before, because of this pig is a runt. When she heard the news, she chases her father and then she arrives at his / the farm and begs her father to leave the pig and the following that his father agrees with her decision.

Vocabulary

I have a pen (which is black)
My pen (which is black) is in my pocket 

I mentioned it before

a pitcher of ice cream

sneaker – shoe

sopping – very wet

queer – strange / weird – gay

carton – box

damp – cold and wet
humid – hot and wet

plaster – material used to build walls, and to put around a bone that was broken
eg. it’s a plaster wall

sink – where the water comes out in the bathroom / kitchen
eg. when her father goes back home he washes his hands in the sink

wobble – shaking like jelly
eg. the pig wobbled as Fern walked by

lid – gai zi
eg. she opens the lid to look at him

scratch – zhua
eg. the reason the pig was wobbling is because it scratched the inside of the carton

whisper – speak quietly

rifle – gun

miserable – very sad
eg. Fern was miserable when she was thinking about the pig dying

get rid of sth – to take sth away / to throw sth away

nevertheless – anyway / regardless / despite
eg. I didn’t do anything good but my boss gave me the award nevertheless

to get out of doing sth – to not need to do sth that you needed to do before
eg. the teacher gave me some homework but i said i was sick and i can’t do it

rubber – a soft material

nipple – the part

honk – beep beep!

doughnut – “doe nut”

blissful – happy

dreamily – like a dream

giggle – a little laugh

do away with sth – cancel / kill / stop sth