Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Today we focused on:

presentation

Advice: Go slower to vary the tone and show more confidence. It will also help limit pronunciation mistakes.

Next Class Focus

how to present figures and graphs

Speaking exercise

We went to a music bar

We also went to 2 temples the day before yesterday. / 2 days ago
We just have the wish to find boyfriends so we went and made a wish maybe it gives us double efficiency / we made a wish to buddha

Maybe because there are more excellent single girls in SH and less good single men in SH.
If you want to live here you should have money and a good job and maybe you should also have other abilities

Some of those good guys already have gfs and some they cannot survive and may go back to their hometown.

Another reason may be because some of the guys are gay.
It is harder for us to find good boyfriends.
If have 10d holidays.
the reason why I have such a long holiday is because I don’t need to take days off in this week end and I took one more day for annual leave so all together it is 10 days.

From my first impression I think SH was affected more than Wuhan / on top of my mind I believe SH was affected more than Wuhan

The government leader in Wuhan is very close to our president so after he went to Wuhan to become the leader he had a lot of opportunities and support from the government and Wuhan recovered from 2019 after 2 years.

But now we still have strict policies. I need to have 48h negative covid test / negative nucleic acid test then you get the permission to enter any building

I don’t need to do extra tests because when I get off the train there are covid test points there and everybody needs to do a test before leaving the station and then they can go back to their home.

they are still/ they still operate as separate systems, one in SH and one in Hubei. If you go to another province they never share information. It is better than before, those are all in alipay. / at least it is centralized on Alipay.

When I come back I need to do a covid test again because in the SH system it cannot show the test result  / because regional systems do not communicate. I need to have the 24h test result then I can enter public places.

In the first 24h I come to SH I cannot go to any place except my home.

Actually they are quite busy everyday so we don’t have much time to stay with each other, we only have meals together and then my parents work. /

If I stay at home I need to come back home earlier. / I need to respect a curfew.
Maybe after 12 my mom will call me and ask where I am.
If I am in SH I don’t need to worry about those things

Vocabulary

curfew (n) 宵禁令 /宵禁时间
I need to respect my mum’s curfew

to centralize (v) to concentrate in one place
The political power is centralized in BJ

club (n) exclusive place for which you need a membership  / night club
I joined the rotary club
I went to the club last night and I drank a lot

nucleic acid test (n) 核酸
I need to do a nucleic acid test

Pronunciation

Strategy

Prestige

Resonance

esteemed

Estimate

Knowledge 

Interactions

Wish / wishes

Proven