Open F2F Class Notes _25th Mar (Harmony)

one and a half past hour – one and a half hour

even they passed away for ten years – even if/though they have passed away…

Murphy’s Law: anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

cemetery:  a plot of land where people get buried. 

22nd – twenty second

one year twice – twice a year

in china it is not paid attention to these things –  In China, we do not pay attention to these things

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Visiting my grandfather’s and grandmother’s grave

We visited my grandfather’s and grandmother’s grave this morning. It is a little far from city center and took us one and half hour to get there by metro.

It is the first time we visited them since we got married. We should go there around 4th April, but we are going on a trip at that time, so we went visit them in advanced. We took some fruit, water and food for paying our respect. It is a huge cemetery, clean and peaceful. We cleaned the grave and burned some fake money to them (Chinese people believe that dead men live in another world and they also need money to use). We bowed, said goodbye to them and told them we would visit them again in December which is another traditional day to pay respects for our family members who passed away.

Visiting my grandfather’s and grandmother’s grave

We visited my grandfather’s and grandmothers’ grave this morning. It is a little far from the city center and took us one and a half hour to get there by metro.

It is the first time we visited them since we got married. We should go there around April 4th, but we are going on a trip at that time, so we went to visit them in advance. We took some fruit, water and food for paying our respect. It is a huge cemetery, clean and peaceful. We cleaned the grave and burned some fake money for them (Chinese people believe that dead men live in another world and they also need money). We bowed, said goodbye to them and told them we would visit them again in December which is another traditional day to pay respect to our family members who passed away.

April 4th/ 4th of April

In UK and US English, the apostrophe is used:

To indicate the possessive.

To indicate missing letters.

Sometimes to indicate the structure of unusual words.

– Dogs and cats clothes

The dog’s clothes (it’s your dog)

The cat’s clothes