Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Correct this speaking:

The 3 days will have heavy rain. I am going to my colleague’s home and play with her. I am going to see my colleague and play with her and maybe I will talk with her and do some cook. Maybe I will go out with her and shopping and go to market and shopping! Maybe we can look at the clothing and maybe if I like the clothing I will buy it. I will work at home because I have lots of work and I haven’t finished my work.

Grammar

tomorrow it will rain

it takes 20 minutes to walk to work / to the office

my clothes and shoes were wet 

the words that the actor says are subtitles

every chinese person can speak chinese well 

I’m on the metro
I’m on the bus

Vocabulary

drunk – he zui le
eg. I am drunk
eg2. I have drunk a lot so I am drunk

I walk to company – I walk to work

I have an upset stomach 

I see / I get it / OK – I understand
I know – I already knew that

window shopping – when you go looking for clothes etc but don’t buy anything
eg. I will go window shopping with my friend this weekend

local dialect – shanghainese, cantonese

mandarin – pu tong hua

they’re just not smart – ben de

Some people in Australia cannot speak English well, even though they are native speakers of English.

they use simple sentences when speaking English
they don’t speak English well

vocabulary – ci hui

cafeteria (food) – the place you eat at work
eg. I eat lunch at the work cafeteria

tasty / good / delicious / yummy / scrumptious 

colleagues
college
clothes
I met many of my colleagues at college and they wore beautiful clothes 

walk
work – errr

Pronunciation

monday – “mun day”

foreigners – “for rin nerz”

This week we have dragon boat festival so we have 3 days holiday, saturday, sunday, and monday. But I don’t want to go other city maybe because i feel tired recently. One reason is the heavy rain. The 3 days will have heavy rain. I am going to my colleague’s home and play with her. I am going to see my colleague and play with her and maybe I will talk with her and do some cook. Maybe I will go out with her and shopping and go to market and shopping! Maybe we can look at the clothing and maybe if I like the clothing I will buy it. I will work at home because I have lots of work and I haven’t finished my work.

This week we have dragon boat festival so we will have a 3 day-holiday, and it is on saturday, sunday, and monday. But I don’t plan to travel to other cities, because i felt tired recently. Maybe, it will rain during the holiday. The 3 days will have heavy rain. I am going to my colleague’s home and play with her. I am going to see my colleague and play with her and maybe I will talk with her and do some cook. Maybe I will go out with her and shopping and go to market and shopping! Maybe we can look at the clothing and maybe if I like the clothing I will buy it. I will work at home because I have lots of work and I haven’t finished my work.