Online Class Notes (Joe)

Vocabulary

chafe 摩擦
This shirt chafes my neck

% – percent
Give them a discount of 50%(percent)
if you don’t say “percent” people will think it’s a discount of 50 RMB

recipe – the plan of how to cook a dish
Do you have a recipe for dumplings?

Grammar

I don’t good at cooking
I’m not good at cooking

in a year (one year from now – 2023)
I will go to Japan in a year

for a year (duration / period of 1 year)
I’ve been cooking at home for a year

I haven’t – recently
Have you exercised recently?
I haven’t exercised

I have never – in my life
Have you ever seen that movie?
I have never seen it.

Pronunciation

nephew /ˈnɛfju/