Open F2F Class Notes 9th November (Jesse)

JesseJim

Grammar


always / no time

  1. go
  2. go 
  3. see 
  4. study
  5. do

eg. I go to work every day

specific past time – you say the time 

  1. went
  2. left
  3. saw
  4. studied 
  5. did

eg. I went to the movies last saturday

general past time – you don’t say the time (already / before / in the past)

  1. have been 
  2. have gone 
  3. have seen
  4. have studied 
  5. have done

now time in the past – in the past it was happening

  1. was going
  2. was going 
  3. was seeing 
  4. was studying
  5. was doing

now time – now it is happening

  1. am going
  2. am going 
  3. am seeing 
  4. am studying
  5. am doing

I already have not gone to the movies for about six years.

when I was watching tv my mother came in my home, and I wish she would not do that. 

Q. when did you study Japanese? 

A. I studied Japanese from 10 years ago but now, I don’t study.

For my business I always have a lot of business dinners with my clients. Of course it is almost in Chinese style. Chinese like foods and believe good foods make everybody happy. We enjoin every meal even a breakfast. We communicate each other and share our stories with everyone during the meals. From the past time if we want to tell some important things like businesses to somebody we will have a meal with them. So it has already become a Chinese culture. Of course I am used to enjoin the business dinners but in fact I do not like it, because it makes me very tired. I think we should finish works on meetings before dinners. I do not know what about business dinner in western countries, may they have the same style as us.

For my business I always have a lot of business dinners with my clients. Of course it is almost always in Chinese style. Chinese like foods and believe good foods make everybody happy. We enjoy every meal even a breakfast. We communicate with each other and share our stories with everyone during the meals. From the past / In traditional Chinese culture if we want to tell someone some important things like business we will have a meal with them. So it has already become a part of Chinese culture. Of course I am used to enjoying the business dinners but in fact I do not like them, because it makes me very tired. I think we should finish our work in meetings before dinners. I do not know what about business dinners in western countries, maybe they have the same style as us.