Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Last Week's Writing Class

 

We have to do one writing assignment

every semester. It is worth 10% of your final grade.

Writing Class

Instructions: Answer each question with a sentence in English. Write the sentence now. Write down your partner’s answer. We have to do one writing

each semester. Let’s do the writing now.

Please do not use pencil. Use pen. This is not math class. We have ten answers.

We write 10 sentences. Then we write two paragraphs.  

1.                      What is your English first and last name?

2.                      Where do you come from? What is your hometown?

3.                      How often do you look at your phone?

4.                      How often do you go online?

5.                      Do you think you are wasting time online or is it useful? Explain?

6.                      What is your favorite app?

7.                      Why do you enjoy this app?

8.                      Do you ever play video games? If you do, what games do you like?

Explain.

9.                      What is an app you liked before but do not like now?

10.             How do you think the Internet will change in the future?

Social media

 

 

Awesome: great, fantastic, very good, wonderful, I like it, etc.

A bit: a little

Stew: soup, usually with meat

Shame: bad, disappointing

Random: without reason, not “on purpose”

Allergic: itchy skin

 

For example:

 

I talked to Judge Yi. He comes

 

from Hualien. Judge uses the Internet

 

every day. He looks at his phone

 

constantly because he worries about

 

what people think about him or what

 

they are doing. His favorite app is 13

 

Thread.

 

We will write two paragraphs. Each paragraph is five sentences. Remember to indent and double space.

For example:

 

 

I talked to Jay Chang today. He comes

from Hsinchu. I looks at his phone every

hour. He goes online constantly. He

thinks it is a big waste of time because

he never studies or does housework. He

really loves Facebook because that app

more popular with young people.

 

 

Five sentences in every paragraph. Do not use pencil.

 

T.G.I.F.    Thank God It’s Friday

Class & Period: 10:10, Friday

Major

Room No.: 201

Teacher: Patrick Cowsill

Topic: Writing Class

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell            ?

Males: boys

Random

Stew: soup, with meat

Spicy hot pot

Awesome is great.

We have to do

Bland: not a lot of flavor or strong taste

Rice, water, bread, chowder

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Last Week's Notes: English Class

 


Big Mac and French Fries (above)



1. I can’t believe how packed this place is:

A lot of customers, a lot of people, crowded, etc.

2. Grand opening: first day for a business, the

company just opened, you can get some free stuff

3. Extreme: serious, hard work, too much, etc.

4. Sweets: dessert, candy, etc.

5. Random: not “on purpose”

Decreasing: less and less

Consumption: means to eat or drink

I consumed some coffee this morning.

In order to: because

Mighty: very, great, strong, excellent, etc.

 

Featured: emphasized, shown, etc.

I feel a little guilty.

 

This class is NOT an elective. This is a req. You must take English.

 

 

It’s 11 sharp. Exactly

 

Refrigerator: Fridge

Beverage: drink

Vampires do NOT like garlic.

 

Declining: refuse or say you do not want it

Hindus (in India) don’t eat beef.

Muslims and Jews don’t eat pork or

shellfish.

Clams, oysters, shrimp . . .

 

If you are allergic to food, usually it

makes your skin itchy.

 

“I don’t care for” is a polite, friendly

gentle way

to refuse food, say you don’t want food,

or decline food and beverages.

 

When it is exactly 2:00, we say

2:00 sharp.

 

 

1. Diagonal

2. Vertical

3. Horizontal

4. Backward(s)

The elephant in Chinese Chess moves diagonally.

Top, left corner.

If he/she says “yes” with a sentence, write down

his/her name. If he/she says “no” with a sentence,

do NOT write down his/her name.

Can’t stand: hate, don’t like…

The waiter or waitress will ask you in a restaurant:

 

How do you like your steak (cooked)?

1 minute for cooking a steak: blue

3 minutes: rare     bloody

4 minutes: medium rare     red

5 minutes: medium         pink

7 minutes: medium well       Tastes like eating a shoe

10 minutes: well done           Tastes like eating burnt wood

 

Wax apple

 

Fast food

 

Listening Practice:

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell      ?

 

eat   ate   eaten     cost     coast

 

Popular     Ronald McDonald

Arrive: first come

 

 

 

 

 

 

popular Fast food restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

Who had eggs for breakfast?

 

Who wants onions on their burger?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronald McDonald

Big Macs   Cost    Coast