Online Class Notes (Joe)

Today we focused on:

In today’s class, we first talked about the present perfect simple tense and the present perfect continuous tense. After that, we talked about the weather in Shanghai.

Homework

Find the 5 most important, interesting or difficult things we have learned about in the 5 classes we have had so far.

Speaking exercise

In last saturday, the wind is not so big
last Saturday, the wind was not so strong

the rainy is just so so
the rain was just so so – better
it only rained a bit – more natural

there was a lot of chance of raining
the was a good chance for it to rain

the wind and the rainy is very heavy
the wind was very strong and the rain was very heavy
Note: rain can be heavy. wind can be strong. they can’t share these adjectives

you can work from home in Monday
you can work from home on Monday

yesterday, my son and I stay in home
yesterday, my son and I stayed at home

lots of schools just stop
lots of schools just closed (they were already open)
lots of schools just didn’t open (they were not open yet)

there will be rainy
there will be rain