Online Class Notes (Joe)

We talked about different shopping festivals in China

Pronunciation

Valentine’s væləntaɪnz

Vocabulary

vicariously (adv) – experience the feelings or actions of another person through your imagination
I like to live vicacriously through the people on travel shows

autism (noun) – 自闭症
she is a lawyer with autism

travel (adj)
I enjoy reading travel magazines

travel (verb)
I want to travel

travels (noun) – used in plural
His travels were legendary

the double eleven global shopping festival
In China, we just call it double eleven

the June shopping festival
In China, we call it 618

downtime (noun) – time when you relax and do not do very much (different from free time which you can use to do activities)
I have a little downtime this evening so I’m just gonna watch TV

Grammar

We need to do some review of that
We needed to do a review of that

They are evenly in the whole year
They are spread evenly throughout the whole year

I’m not so busy during the July
I’m not so busy during July

I did the powerpoint
I made the powerpoint

I can’t travel since last year
I haven’t been able to travel since last year

I really want to have a travel
I really want to have a trip
I really want to travel