Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

I had one sandwich and tiramisu. the set lunch is really good.

I have a trip last week. the Silk Road. A little far. some places on that route.
We was in Xinin Jiangye.
different places and different things.
It is amazing We know the salt lake, it is amazing, very wide.
it is very beautiful and then we know the rainbow mountain

and a canyon, the scenery was very amazing.
everyplace was amazing.
That lake is the more bigger lake in China.

It has around 300km of perimeter
You think you see the sea and we went to north the desert.

maybe the pictures are normal pictures .I don’t have time to take amazing photos.
I took normal photos.
The most important the experience.

It is the first time when I took a lot of photos with my camera and not my phone. usually I take photos with my camera and phone. this time I took a lot of photos with the camera but not the phone. Maybe I am more confident with it.
Sometimes I think the photos with the camera are bad and I have some on my phone and replace but now I am ok.

Before I am going to there I am thinking about my lens because it is

but finally I thought this one I use that I can …
Finally I did all my photos with this so its ok.

you learn everything with only see videos you need a teacher teach you everything.

Jesse sent me because yesterday I had class with Jessy I talk a lot of…. too bad

I don’t want to take pictures the same everyone took. I think I don’t like it.

I see my friend one of two pictures here and it is too far so I need to run to catch up to them

my husband waits for me but before how long you are here. Now he is more patient.
maybe because I took a lot of photos to my friend.


I had one sandwich and tiramisu. the set lunch is really good.

I had a trip last week / I went on a trip. I visited the Silk Road. Some places on that route are a little far..
We went to Xinin Jiangye.
we saw different places and different things.
It is amazing we visited the salt lake / do you know the salt lake? it is amazing, it is very wide.
it is very beautiful and then we went to/visited the rainbow mountain and a canyon, the scenery was very amazing.
every place was amazing.

That lake is the biggest lake in China.

It has around 300km of perimeter
You think you see the sea / it is almost as big as the sea.. and we went to the north to the desert.

maybe the pictures are normal pictures  / snapshot .I don’t have time to take amazing photos.
I took normal photos.
The most important the experience.

It is the first time when I took a lot of photos with my camera and not my phone. usually I take photos with my camera and phone. this time I took a lot of photos with the camera but not the phone. Maybe I am more confident with it.
Sometimes I think the photos with the camera are bad and I have some on my phone and replace but now I am ok.

Before I am going to there I am thinking about my lens because it is

but finally I thought this one I use that I can …
Finally I did all my photos with this so its ok.

you learn everything with only see videos you need a teacher teach you everything.

Jesse sent me because yesterday I had class with Jessy I talk a lot of…. too bad

Writing exercise

The first day we went to a place which is very similar to Tibet / we went to a place which looks like Tibet.
If you have never been in Tibet, you can know what it is by visiting this city. The people, the scenery, everything is like if you are in Tibet.
On the first day we went to a monastery, which was the most important/most famous in that city. That day it rained a lot, but I couldn’t take a lot of photos there, because we didn’t bring an umbrella or rain coat. We didn’t know that when we would arrive there, it would start to rain, so my husband and my friend Teo, went to buy some raincoats because it was impossible continue without that. It stopped to rain when we finished the visit and left.

The guide said that it rains there almost every 100 days, so we were lucky, was it the day number 100?  / was the the hundredth day.
You can find some food there that you like to eat, I mean Chinese food, because there aren’t many western restaurants. We were lucky  to find a fast / fortunately we found food restaurant named Dicos.
It had hamburgers and fried chicken, so we went there a few times, mainly for the kids of my friends.

I don’t want to take the same pictures as everyone else / I don’t want my pictures to look like everyone else
 I think I don’t like it / I think I want them to be special / more creative.

every time I took pictures my friends would go ahead without me and I had to run to catch up to them

I see my friend one of two pictures here and it is too far so I need to run to catch up to them

my husband waits for me now but before he didn’t  / before he was not that patient . Now he is more patient.
maybe because I took a lot of photos of my  friend.

Vocabulary

to catch up (v) : reach the same place / exchange information to know about what happened
My team ran faster than me so I had to run faster to catch up
I met Tom yesterday , last time we met was 2 years ago. It was good to catch up

snapshot (n) picture you take very quickly / you don’t think too much about how to make it beautiful
I took some snapshots during my trip
I took a snapshot to show that the item was broken

panorama (n) very wide picture
I took a panorama during the trip

wide (adj) amplio / ancho
The box is wide

wide lens (n) lens that can shoot very wide
12-24 is a very wide lens

distortion (n) distorsión / deformación
Using a wide lens can create distortion

Grammar

I took a photo of Tom : Tom is in the picture / the subject is Tom

I take the picture to Tom : I bring the picture to him