Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

hilly – goes up and down all the time
eg. Sydney is very hilly

Grammar

needs money – costs money
takes time

did
have done
had done
eg. I taught 1 student at 10AM today. So now, I have taught 2 students including you. Before your class started, I had only taught 1 student today.

I know what your name is = I know the word your name is / I know the name your name is

can / could = sometimes means ability, sometimes means allowed
able = ability
eg. Yes you are ABLE to smoke in here but you can’t.

Pronunciation

yell – say yella, then take away the “a”

We took some photos like i just posing, and my friend take photos with … what a pity thing i didn’t take a hot air balloon, i haven’t sit it, it’s really a pity. Because my friend told me if you sit it you cannot take a really beautiful picture. I have a great problem, my medical condition maybe cannot really good to take this journey.

We took some photos like i just posed / like of me posing, and my friend took photos with … what a pity thing i didn’t take a hot air balloon, i haven’t taken one before which is really a pity. Because my friend told me if you take one you cannot take a really beautiful picture. I have a great problem which is (that) my medical condition is not really suitable to take this journey.

which / that / who 

2 days ago I bought 4 bottles of alcohol and one of my friend met me at the door of my aparemtny and we took an uber to another friend’s home which is near DH so we can watch the fireworks so we took uber and the price is normal because at that time the price is normal because the fireworks didn’t began. We play some card games, you lose you will drink and we just waited for the firework. If the firework began we shouted and we took photos. Every Chinese like taking photos. And after that I want go home, I took my phone and I check uber wow the price, the uber fee was really high. At 1AM, it is about 120 dollars, I cannot accept it so I decided to wait, if people go home maybe the fee will be down so I waited until 3AM. It was down but it is still horrible because of 50 dollars because I just came to my friend which just needs 50 dollars. I took an uber go home.

2 days ago I bought 4 bottles of alcohol and one of my friends met me at the door of my apartment and we took an uber to another friend’s home which is near DH so we could / were able to watch the fireworks so we took uber and the price was normal because at that time the price was normal because the fireworks hadn’t begun. We played some card games, and if you lose, you will drink and we just waited for the fireworks. When the fireworks began we shouted and we took photos. Every Chinese person likes taking photos. And after that I wanted to go home, I took my phone and I checked uber wow the price, the uber fee was really high. At 1AM, it was about 120 dollars, I couldn’t accept it so I decided to wait… (at that time) I thought if people go home maybe the fee will go down so I waited until 3AM. It went down but it was still horrible because of it being / costing 50 dollars / because of the price because when I just went to my friend it just cost 13 dollars. I took an uber go home. / I took an uber to get home / to go home.