Online Class Notes (Joe)

Write about German football players. Focus on using the words ‘German’ and ‘Germany’, the phrases ‘found out’ and ‘know about’. When you write about something new you learn, use “found out”. When you write about something you already knew, write “know about”.

We will practice using the present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses and identify when we should use them.

We focused on the words German and Germany while talking about food.

Vocabulary

get dressed = the process of putting on clothes
I got dressed in my bedroom this morning

wear clothes = having clothes on your body
I wear a t-shirt every day
I am wearing a t-shirt now

know about someone = have knowledge about someone
Do you know about Jack Ma?

know someone = have a relationship with someone
I know her because we went to high school together

find out about someone = learn about someone’s existence for the first time (but you didn’t meet)
I found out about the German football team in 2006

think about something = the activity of information being processed in your mind
I thought about leaving, but I decided to stay

know about something = the passive process of having information in your mind
I knew about some German dishes before I went to Germany

appear (verb) – come into sight / looks like but can’t be confirmed
The waiter appeared with our food after 15 minutes
The food appeared delicious, but we had to taste it to make sure.

outside my wheelhouse = not part of someone’s general interests, abilities, or area of familiarity
Football is outside my wheelhouse

Pronunciation

thunder – /ˈθʌndə/

various – /ˈvɛːrɪəs/

staple – /ˈsteɪp(ə)l/

Before I went to German, typical germany foods I thought had been roasted pork shank, various sausages and sauerkraut. However, while I studied in German, the food impressed me is not those dishes, but potatoes and white asparagus.
Potatoes are usually served as a side dish in China, but they are referred to as staple food in German. I could see them almost every day in the cafeteria of my university, sometimes they appeared as French fries, sometimes as mashed potato. they can also be roasted, boiled or steamed. Actually, at first, I had a hard time getting used to eating them routinely, but then I got used to the days without rice.
Boiled white asparagus with hollandaise is my favorite Germany dish. It’s a pity that it’s a seasonal dish which only can be served in spring. There are more green asparagus in China than the white one and I had never seen it before I went to German.This year I tried to buy white asparagus online but unfortunately it was not fresh enough. Someday, if I have chance to go to Europe again, I hope it will happen in Spring.

Before I went to Germany, some typical German foods I had known about were roasted pork shank, various sausages and sauerkraut. However, while I studied in Germany, the food which impressed me is not those dishes, but potatoes and white asparagus.
Potatoes are usually served as a side dish in China, but they are seen to as staple food in Germany. I could see them almost every day in the cafeteria of my university, sometimes they were cooked as French fries, sometimes as mashed potato. they can also be roasted, boiled or steamed. Actually, at first, I had a hard time getting used to eating them routinely, but then I got used to the days without rice.
Boiled white asparagus with hollandaise is my favorite German dish. It’s a pity that it’s a seasonal dish which only can be served in spring. There are more green asparagus in China than the white one and I had never seen it before I went to Germany.This year I tried to buy white asparagus online but unfortunately it was not fresh enough. Someday, if I have chance to go to Europe again, I hope it will happen in Spring.