F2F Class Notes 21st April (Celeste)

Maybe he will go back his country. –  Maybe he will go back to his country. / Maybe he will return home.

He can’t take away to his country. – He can’t bring it back home.

4 – 2 =2

4 minus 2 equals 2 /4 take away 2 equals 2

take away (in a restaurant, very Chinglish)  – to- go / doggie bag

ex: I would like to order to-go.

ex: I’m so full but I didn’t finish my dinner, can I have a doggie bag?

how to say… –  How do I say this? / How should I say this? / How can I say this?

We turn on lights, we open books.

legitimate / legit – real

ex: Was it a legitimate website?

ex: Wow, this coffee is legit!

legit = real deal

slang / slang word – popular, modern words

If he get stick between the two stones he will drown. – If he gets stuck between two stones he will drown.

Original

We adopted a turtle yesterday from Rab. I thought it is easy for us to adopt it but it is difficult. We have to put enough water into the tank and feed it healthy food but we have only turtle food so I bought some dead shrimp through the internet. Rab told me it needs light everyda But we have no place to let it be in the sunshine. So, we got a light from Rab to we decide to turn on the light for it twice a day. This is the first time for me to keep a pet, so I am very concerned about it. Even though I am afraid something will happen to it. Just like I have a baby. I always want to get a pet but my mother she hates pet. She hates anything with hair like dogs, cats. But now, I am married and I think I am free to get a pet. So maybe adopt a turtle is the first step, maybe the next step is a dog or cat.

Edited

We adopted a turtle yesterday from Rab. I thought it would be easy for us to adopt it but it is difficult. We need to keep the water level in the tank higher than the height of  the turtle  and feed it fresh food like live fish or shrimp. But, we only have turtle food so I bought some dried shrimp through/from/off/via the internet. Rab told me it needs light/sunshine/warmth everyday but we don’t have a/any place to let it be in the sunshine. So, we got a light/lamp from Rab so we decided to turn on the light for it twice a day.

This is the first time for me to keep/have a pet, so I am very concerned about it. Even though, I am afraid something will happen to it. It’s just like having a baby. I always wanted to get/have a pet but my mother hates pets. She hates anything with hair like dogs and cats. But now, I am married and I think I am free to get/have a pet. So maybe adopting a turtle is the first step, maybe the next step is adopting a dog or cat.