Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Write about what you do during the lockdown

I stay home for 14 days -》 I have to stay home for 14 days /I am in quarantine right now…

Last week Shanghai made us take a covid test and they tested 10 people as a group and we were all negative.

Before March 19 we were all positive / the group was positive.  My home was locked.
From yesterday we started to take new tests. We take individual tests

Our community everyday has new case. -> Our community has new cases everyday / everyday our community has new cases

we must stay home with new cases. -> every time there is a new case we continue the lockdown / quarantine

I call the hospital and every hospital has one doctor, just to listen to calls -> hospitals have one doctor who answers the calls.

If I need to buy medicine for my husband…

Last year I feel America and England has been omicron …. -> Last year I felt when Omicron hit America and England they wanted to take off the masks,
they don’t stayed home -> they didn’t stay home.

I didn’t understand why they did that. I stayed home two weeks and I understand now.
The government wants zero Covid. It is a very difficult thing / It is almost impossible with Omicron

Every country and people we infect the same -> I thought all the countries would respond in the same way / I thought they would all fight Omicron the same way.

Just in China the government can keep us in quarantine -> Only China can keep people in quarantine like this. / only China can keep people at home.

we didn’t lock the whole city.

Shenzhen is back to normal

Vocabulary

back to normal : return to the life before something happened
The lockdown in Shenzhen is over. It is back to normal now.
Business is back to normal now.

answer a call (n) 回电话
I called the hospital but no one answered.
I saw Tom was calling and I don’t like him so I didn’t answer his call.
I called the community, I wanted to know my test result.

result (n) 结果
I called to know my test results
The covid test results are on the internet

community (n) 社区
My community is in lockdown.

muscle (n) 肌肉💪
I have more muscle because I go to the gym

individual (adj) 单独的
The hotel asked me if I wanted an individual room
Now we have individual covid tests
In some families there is only 1 computer but in my family we all have individual computers.

direct flight (n) 直飞
Tibo will buy a direct flight from CDG to PVG.

lockdown (n) being locked in a place
Our community is in lockdown for 14 days.

finger crossed : hope to get good luck
I hope I can get back to China, finger crossed.

Grammar

write the time at the beginning or the end of a sentence

On Thursday, I will visit my friend = I will visit my friend on Thursday.

I will write my homework next Thursday.