Online Class Notes (JJ)

Speaking exercise

If you could invite anyone in the world to dinner, who would it be?

Would you like to be famous? In what way?

Before making a phone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?

What is a perfect day for you?

When did you last sing to yourself, or to someone else?

If you were able to live to the age of 90, would you like to have the mind or body of a 30 year old for the last 60 years of your life.

For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

I have already watched his concert. I quit from my last company. If I have free time, I would attend volunteer activities. (…) in Huangpi Road.

Revised:

I have already attended his concert/I have been/I have gone to his concert. I quit my last job/I resigned from my last job. 

I met my colleagues at my first job. (…) on Huangpi Road.

Vocabulary

blonde: 金头发

Ex: Richard Clayderman is blonde.

rehearse: 事先排练

covid 19: 新馆肺炎

celebration: 庆祝

Ex: Nell had a celebration after she quit her last job.

to resign: 辞职

attend a concert: 去看演唱会

quit my job: 辞掉我的工作

grateful: 感恩的

Ex: I am grateful for good health and a good job.

At my first job: 在我的第一份工作单位

coworker: 同事

street photography: 街拍

portrait: 人像拍摄

landscape: 风景

Pronunciation

colleagues: CALL-leagues

Grammar

in district/neighborhood

on + street name

Homework

Pick an episode of Modern Family, watch it and write a short essay (what you like about it, what you don’t like, what happened in the episode.)