Online Class Notes (Mike)

You have recently been on holiday with your family. Write an email about it to a friend in Britain. Include the following points:

–  where you went
–  how you got there
–  something interesting you did
–  how you felt when you got home
–  an invitation to your friend to stay with you for the next school holiday.

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Hi David,

How are things? I’m depressed! I went on holiday to the south of France with my family last week and I didn’t want to come home! We had a brilliant time.

We travelled by plane to Marseille and then by coach to a seaside town. We stayed in a lovely hotel. It was right on the beach.

One day we went to a small restaurant and we had an amazing meal. We had loads of seafood – delicious! The restaurant was on a hill with a lovely view of the sea. It was really cool.

When we got home yesterday I started to get anxious about my school exams next week. I need to think about another holiday! So, why don’t you come and stay with us in the summer? We can have a great time!

Write soon,

Katy

The Kardashians are currently one of the USA’s most well-known families. They are often in the news, and Americans follow their lives in the papers and celebrity magazines.  The Kardashians are reality TV starts, with their own family show called Keeping up with the Kardashians.

It all started in 2007 when the family was asked by an American channel to make a TV series about their lives. The show focused on mother Kris and her four children. Their father was lawyer Robert Kardashian, who died a few years earlier. The show became a success in its first season, mainly because of the three sisters and their extrovert personalities.

Since then, there have been eight more seasons and the show is still running. Two of the sisters got married on the show. Kim got married twice! And two of the sisters are now parents. Furthermore, the three sisters have used their fame to establish careers in the fashion industry. They have opened clothes shops and launched several clothing collections and perfumes. Kim has even launched a successful mobile phone game called Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.

Although the show has many fans, it also has many critics. They are irritated by the sisters’ desire for fame and fortune, and think the show is meaningless. The Kardashians are only ‘famous for being famous’, but they don’t mind because it has made them rich.

a few months ago, I went to ruin expore with my friends. one day, we went to a far suburb, The position is in a hotel. It’s been out of business for almost ten years, Olympic champion LiuXiang been here to.
We cicle the hotle, saw tow srcurity guards and there dog, We find a way to get in, round to the back, go over the wall, Through grass and trees, Finally, we saw the abandoned hotel.
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A few months ago, I went to explore some ruins with my friends. One day, we went to a far suburb. The location is in a hotel. It’s been out of business for almost ten years, Olympic champion LiuXiang had been here too.
We walked around the hotel and saw two security guards and three dogs. We found a way to get in, circled to the back and went over the wall. Through grass and trees, finally, we saw the abandoned hotel.
After a while, we heard the sound of dogs and bicycles. They noticed us, so our expedition plan failed.

Many women and children in Africa spend between three and nine hours a day carrying water to their homes. They use 20-litre plastic bucket》, which they carry on their heads. The buckets are very heave and often cause back and neck injuries. So engineers Pettie Petzer and Johan Jonker designed a ‘rolling wheel’ which can carry ninety litres of water and is much easier to move. 33,000 ‘Hippo-Rollers’ have been made and delivered to remote villages in Africa. The results are good: women have more time to look after their families, the children have more time at school, and there are fewer injuries.

There are 780 million people in the world who don’t have clean safe drinking water. This fact led the Swiss company Vestergaard to invent a special kind of straw that allows people to drink dirty water without getting ill. The LifeStraw is a long thin tube that cleans the water as it passes through into somebody’s mouth. LifeStraw is very light and can clean up to 1,000 litres of water before you need to replace it. LifeStraw was used to help people after the Haiti earthquake, and floods in Pakistan and Thailand.

When Simon Berry was travelling in Zambia, he noticed that he could buy Coca-Cola in the remotest villages. But in these same villages the people had no medicines and, because of that, one in five children （五个里面有一个）were dying before their fifth birthday. He had an idea. ‘Why don’t they bring medicines when they deliver the Coca-Cola?’ So he invented the AidPod, a triangular packet of medicines that fits between the bottles in a s of Coca-Cola.《Berry has experimented with a number of designs for his AidPod and is testing his ideas in Zambia. If his plan works, he hopes to do the same thing in other African countries, and save thousands of lives.

On 24 November 1971, at 《Portland Airport, a man wearing a suit and a raincoat bought a one-way ticket for the evening 《flight to 《Seattle. He checked in and got on the plane. The name on the 《ticket was Dan Cooper, but that wasn’t his real name.

When the plane had taken off, he put on 《sunglasses and gave the flight 《attendant a note. The note said that Cooper had a 《bomb in his 《suitcase, that he would use it if 《necessary, and that he was 《hijacking the plane. He showed the flight 《attendant the bomb and told her that when the plane landed in 《Seattle, he wanted $200,000 and four 《parachutes. He told her that he would let the 《passengers leave the plane.

When the plane landed, the police gave Cooper the money and the parachutes, and the plane took off again with just Cooper and five 《members of the 《crew. The flight attendant said that Cooper wasn’t 《nervous, he didn’t get angry, and he seemed to be a nice, polite man. Cooper ordered the pilot to fly low, at about 3,000 《metres, towards Mexico. Twenty minutes after taking off, Cooper opened the back door and jumped out of the plane with a parachute and the money.

That was the last time anyone saw Cooper. The police 《launched an 《investigation and 《searched the area where Cooper had jumped – but they found nothing. Ten years later, an eight-year-old boy found some of the money (only $6,000) on a beach nearby. The rest of the money is still missing. Over the years, the police have interviewed hundreds of 《suspects, but they haven’t made any 《arrests. The real 《identity of Cooper and what happened to him 《remain a mystery to this day.

Vocabulary

relate (v) 相关，关系到
I don’t related to this film.
A is related to B
relative (adj.) 相关的，有关联的，相对的
(n) 亲戚
Theory of Relativity 《相对论》

certain (adj.) 确定，肯定，某一个，一定
I am certain that SH will not be locked down again.

certainly (adv.) 当然，一定要，确定

ruins (n) 废墟
ruin (v) 毁坏，破坏，毁灭，糟蹋，败坏
Drugs can ruin your life.
I ruined the night.

destroy (v) 摧毁

break (v) 打破，打坏，
break the record 打破纪录
break the ice 打破沉默
I broke the glass.

circle (v) 画圈，圈出来，绕
Circle this word out.

explore (v) 探险
explorer (n) 探险人
exploration (n) 探险

expert (n) 专家
expertise (n) 专长
This doctor’s expertise is cancer treatment. 癌症治疗

discover (v) 发现

position (n) 位置，地位，人的姿势，姿态
pose (v) 摆姿势
This position is not comfortable.

locate (v)
CS is located in the Southwest of China. 位于
location (n) 地点，位置

carry (v) 携带，带，拿，提，搬，运
carry-on bag 随身行李
carrier (n) 载体
Let me carry it for you.

bring (v) 带来
I didn’t bring my notebook today.
I didn’t carry my notebook today.
This factory brought many chances to our hometown.

Between A and B

plastic bucket (n) 塑料桶
plastic bag 塑料袋

engineer (n) 工程师

design (v/n) 设计
What do you think of our design?
designer 设计师

sign (v)

deliver (v) 运送，运输，发表，传达
delivery (n) 快件，快递
same-day delivery (n) 当天运送/到达
supply (v) 供应
supply chain 供应链

result (n) 结果，后果

lead (v)- led

get ill: 生病

pass (v) 通过，路过，途径
You will pass Korea if you fly to Japan.
I passed by your shop today.
I want to pass this exam.
(n) 通行证

light (adj.) 轻的 – heavy (adj.) 重的

replace (v) 替换，更替，替代，更换

safe (adj.) 安全的
save (v) 节省，存，保存，拯救，救护
I want to save money.

experiment (v/n) 实验

notice (v) 注意
I noticed that you are taller.
I didn’t notice what he said.

invent (v) 发明

red packet (n) 红包

work (v) 达成，可以实行