Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

you don’t know if you have or not because it is more light -> mild / symptoms are mild

Our flight was on Jan 25 but they canceled every flight and in February they have some but maybe the flight have a high occupation.
Now we have a flight on March 1.

We are waiting for this flight and we hope they don’t cancel it.
You try to go there with transfer from another city.
my friend had one flight transferring in /with a transfer Helsinki and they did a test PCR  in April.
Every PCR there the cost is around 4ooEUR. / every PCR costs 400EUR
And they are 4 people so it was 2k just for the PCR test

Before December if was around 2k and now it is 4k. / and now the ticket price doubled
They want to get a lot of money from the ticket.

Now we think it is impossible to live that way.
Before you could have trips maybe 3 times a/per year

We usually come back 3 times a year to see the family but now it is impossible , you cannot come here for 2 weeks if you need to quarantine for 21 days.

My friend had her mum pass away and she couldn’t see her.
Now we are sad because this situation cannot continue.

you can get that virus too easy -> you can get the virus easily / it is easy to get the virus

My husband talked with his boss about not staying in China.
At the moment they don’t have any answer. Maybe they haven’t thought  about it.

Now I am here so I am happy.
When I came back from Columbia, I arrived here and I took a PCR test and I gave a kiss to my husband and the next day I had a fever and the next day I took the test and I was positive.
I arrived here from Columbia and gave the virus to every member of the family. / and I infected everyone in the family.

I feel very bad. Now they are well.
We have 5 days incubation period but they made me take a test and I was clean / I was negative

I only had  fever (for) 1 night and then my throat ached / I had a sore throat  but nothing more.
And I felt very weak.

One weak after that my husband got it, one day he had fever and he took a test and now he is ok. Only one week and he recovered. / he recovered in a week

Now you need to do a lot of things. one PCR and one IMG test
You can’t to do that in anything, only where they say. -> you can only do it in the centers they recognize.
They have a Chinese clinic near my home so you can do it there.

Now I am sure the Chinese people don’t want to get the virus but now they want to maintain their position in the world power.

There are a lot of people there, it is a lot of people to control.
I think they don’t want to lose a lot of people because they wouldn’t keep they position in the world.

Finally one day the situation will get out of hand / get out of control

this week we finished the quarantine and my husband is well / recovered so now we can do something. We go shopping and now we can enjoy this time together.

While I was in Columbia he was in China. Then we saw each other here on Jan 5 and from Jan 5 to now we couldn’t do anything because of the virus

I talk about how the world was several years ago. Some people who live in Iran, there was war.
Now this situation is everywhere

They don’t have pressure in their life.

life is not really vivid / life feels flat/ they feel disillusioned

When she is talking about the civil war she remembers everything that happened that day.
She didn’t forget anything
Now younger people forget , they feel their days have no meaning.

Vocabulary

get out of hand / get out of control : you cannot control something anymore
Omicron spreads too quickly the situation is getting out of hand.

weak (adj) not strong
I felt a bit weak when I got the virus

Epiphany (n) celebration on January 6
We visited them for the Epiphany

asymptomatic (adj) with no visible/obvious symptoms
You can be sick but asymptotic  / you can be sick and show no symptoms  

mild (adj) not very serious / only light
I like food with a mild taste
Omicron only gives mild symptoms

Pronunciation

weird