Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

Yesterday the covid test is positive but I think today I have the chinese medicine so I got that.

yesterday night I had fever but now I am ok.

A lot of people get covid in my company and among my friends.
I know who infect me, she send the photo to me and tell me you see I get covid, I am the positive and I have the symptoms

I go to do the test and I am positive
It is strange, my friend stay with me and my colleagues stay with me in Monday but they are not affected.

I need to stay home 7 days. I just do the self test kid so they don’t have my information.
I just can go out today but I won’t that

My mum also get covid, yesterday I just asked her to get some help about the medicine I should eat and she replied just eat that one and she said I also get covid and it is not so serious, maybe just take 2-3 days.

I never have so serious cough.
I think my sense of taste is normal but for smell it is just like a cold, your smell is not as sensitive as normal.

My boss is very nice, I just joined the meeting, I don’t need to talk something or follow the project status.
If he has some problems or double check I will share the info with him.

You can be infected again but now within a short time or with the same variant
The first day the symptoms is very serious and I feel sick everywhere.


Yesterday my covid test was positive but I think today I got / had some Chinese medicine so I feel a little better. / I feel slightly better

yesterday night I had fever but now I am ok.

A lot of people got covid in my company and among my friends.
I know who infected me, she sent a photo to me and told me you see I got covid, I am positive and I have the symptoms.

I went go to do the test and I am positive -> I did a self test and realized I was positive
It is strange, my friend stayed with me on Sunday and my colleagues stayed with me on Monday but they were not infected.

I need to stay home for 7 days. I just did a self test so they don’t have my information.

I just can go out today but I won’t that

I could have gone out today but I decided not to. / if I had gone out today no one would have known. (3rd conditional)
If I went out, no one would know (2nd condition -> present)

My mum also got covid, yesterday I just asked her for some help about the medicine I should eat/take and she replied just eat/take that one and she said I also got covid and it is not so serious, it only takes 2-3 days to recover.

It is the first time I have such a serious cough / I have never had such a serious cold
I think my sense of taste is normal but for smell it is just like a cold, your smell is not as sensitive as normal.

My boss is very nice, I just join the meetings, I don’t need to talk or follow the project status.
If he has some problems , I double check and share the info with him.

You can be infected again but not within a short time or with the same variant  / I could catch Covid again but I should be immune for a short time
On the first day the symptoms were very serious and I felt sick everywhere.

On the first day I did a self test and it came out negative and I felt very uncomfortable.
I did another one on Tuesday morning because I thought I might be infected.
Every symptom was just like Covid. / I had all the symptoms of Covid.

He told me it is his fault and he will treat me to a meal to apologize.

Vocabulary

diarrhea (n) 腹泻
I ate something bad and now I have diarrhea

immune (adj) 有免疫力的/受保护的
Tom seems immune to Covid, everyone around him got sick but he never did

cold (n)  when you feel a little sick 感冒
It seems I caught a cold yesterday, I’ll just rest this week end and I’ll be ok on Monday

variant (n) kind of a disease
The new omicron variant is quite mild

booth (n) 售货棚/ 投票间
I went to a test booth to have a covid test

Pronunciation

symptoms

cough

Grammar

In + year / season / month
In 2020
In Summer
In December

On + day / date / event
On Monday
On Dec 14
On my birthday

Conditional

2. Second conditional:
If I had enough money, I would go to Japan. (Time = Present)
If I didn’t have covid, I would go to a party
If I were my mother, I would send some medicines to my daughter
If I sent medicine to my daughter, she would be very happy

If she was very happy she would recover more quickly
If she recovered more quickly she would come visit me earlier.

3. Third conditional:

If I had had enough money, I would have gone to Japan. (Time = Past)
If I hadn’t met my friend, I wouldn’t have been infected.
If I hadn’t made the decision I wouldn’t have come to Shanghai
If I hadn’t come to Shanghai, I would have stayed in Wuhan.
If I had stayed in Wuhan I would have had another experience in my life / my life would have been different.

mixed conditional (condition in the past / result in the present)
If I had eaten lunch I wouldn’t be hungry now
If I had bought many houses in SH 10 years ago, I would be retired now
If I had studied hard in university, I would have a different life.