Online Class Notes (Tibo)

we start next Friday.
We have more than a week, 8 days perhaps but I will apply for 2 days of annual leave and together that will be 9 days.

I will go back / return to Wuhan with my family because my grandpa and grandma are both in Wuhan and the only time to meet them is the Spring festival. / the spring festival is the only occasion we have to be all together.

I bought one ticket from SH to Wuhan but I couldn’t buy a ticket from Wuhan to SH.

If you choose to come back later you can find a ticket but I want to come back a little earlier so I can spend some time with my friends and it is a bit hard.
I chose to wait in line for the ticket. there is a function and you can choose to wait until the day you want to go. Maybe I can get one by then. / I am on the waiting list on the app.

Maybe someone will cancel -> maybe some people will cancel their trips

He chose to go to Wuhan earlier than me and come back later than me so we didn’t match our calendars -> our calendars / schedules do not match.

There is also a risk of accident and it is a waste of time to spend more than 8h on the highway.

My dad loves driving.
he doesn’t listen to music while driving or talk to anyone. Maybe he just wants to control the car.

I learned the car license and I never drive after I get it. -> I learned how to drive / I got my driving license but I have not driven since then
I didn’t remember at all -> I don’t remember anything at all.

The big city has convenient traffic ways -> big cities have a convenient transportation network.

We have a limitation on cars everyday.
Only the single numbers of cars can be on the streets. -> on even days only cars with an even number can be on the streets

most Chinese cities have this policy
This policy is to reduce the number of cars on the road.

I easily get angry and maybe someone will drive faster or block my way, if they hit the horn I will get angry.
On the highway it is allowed.

In Beijing they have automatic driving taxis. You can use your phone to call an automatic driving taxi.

The driving seat has no person on it -> the driving seat is empty.

they are here to ensure the safety of the passenger.

They may cough to indicate you are making a mistake.

I tried twice, the first time I drove the car on the sidewalk.

Every summer a lot of people want to learn driving before they go to college.
A lot of people are waiting to take the test.

When I graduated I was not old enough to drive yet so I took the test a few years later.
I was the oldest in the class.

A long time ago he failed the exam and he used another person’s name to enter high school.
Back then it was possible.

These days the exam is strict, it is hard to cheat.
Some calculators can record the result of your formula and you can type ABC , letters in the calculator and that will be recorded.
You can then use use it to pass your answers to another student and check your answers.

I did that for literature classes

if you don’t have a ID from Shanghai -> If you don’t have a Shanghai car plate

nobody told me if you cheated you will get what punishment -> nobody told me about the punishment for cheating 

Now some children start to learn programming before primary school.
Through these games they try to teach them how to have a programmer’s mindset

Vocabulary

literature (n) written work
I always tried to cheat in literature classes.

sidewalk (n) place where passengers can walk on the sides of a road

klaxon (n) horn for a car

car plate (n) number identifying a car
It is hard to get a car plat in SH

carpooling (v) when people who go to a similar place share a car
Carpooling apps are popular among young people.

even number : 2,4,6,8,…

uneven 1,3,5,7, …

LEZ : Low Emission Zone.