OpenF2F Class Notes 5 June (Peter)

Next lesson, discuss pronunciation of rational numbers (fractions).

Corrections

He family – His family

It is good? – Is it good?

Vocabulary

Newlyweds – two people who are recently married

Marriage License – the permit to get married

Ceremony – an event

Unfamiliar – not used to

Ex. We are unfamiliar with IOS operating system.

Casual number – You may hear 1,200 pronounced as “twelve hundred” instead of “one thousand two hundred” in casual conversation. This only happens for number between 1,100 and 1,900.

Hundred – 白

Ex. 100

Thousand – 千

Ex. 1,000

Ten thousand – 万

Ex. 10,000

Ex. 16,657 (sixteen thousand six hundred fifty seven)

Million – 百万

Ex. 1,000,000

Ex. 17,800,500 (seventeen million, eight hundred thousand five hundred)

Grammar

“Happy” cannot refer to “it”

Ex. I was happy. (Cannot say “it was happy”)

“Than” as a Comparison word

Ex. English is a little different than Chinese

Sentence Structures

Whether or not [“to” verb]

Ex. Yesterday we talked about whether or not to buy an Apple computer.

Pronunciation

Newlyweds (NUE-lee-wedz)

Orginial:

Disney  land

My client couple and us went to the disneyland yesterday. It was very very happy. We were all day in the disney land from 9am to 10pm.

We got 3 fast pass tickets, and we tried  10 rides,such as two roller coaster (one is motorcycle type and one is mine type), two shows (one is meted with sitich face to screen to say ‘a lo ha’ , it’s cartoon way to say hi. Another is frozen,it is a musical show,I saw the famous music let it go).let me introduce other very significant show-pirates of the Caribbean-it is a 4D show, we took on a ship and saw the whole story, we saw the significant scens by whole ring screen and really water. So cool!

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Disneyland

Yesterday, we went to Disneyland with my client and her boyfriend. We were very, very happy. We were at Disneyland all day from 9am to 10pm.

We got 3 fastpass tickets, and we tried10 rides, such as two roller coasters (one is designed to be like a motorcycle and one is designed to be like a mine train). We also saw two shows, one was a face-to-face conversation with Stitch to say “aloha” on a screen; it’s his way to say hi. The other was Frozen, it is a musical show. I heard the famous song “Let it Go.” Let me introduce other very significant shows: Pirates of the Caribbean, a 4D show on a ship that goes through the whole story, we saw the significant scenes by IMAX screen. There was real water! So cool!