Core Class: Do NOT Forget About the Midterm Exam on Wednesday

First, remember this vocabulary:

psychology, genre, heavy metal music, preference, museum, account, nationality, acquainted to, paragraph, sentence, directions, nurse, hometown, pharmacy, hospital, German, avenue, historical, medicine, exercising, keep records, huge, stadium, healthy, musical band, tour guide, across from, heard, Italian

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Here are the class notes from last week: 

We have the midterm test / exam on October 30. I will tell you all the words and grammar to study next week, on October 23.

Benefit: good things

Scientific research: study deeply in a university or lab

Influence

Produce: make

Chemical:

Transliteration

Chow mien: Chinese noodles

Kowtow: Do not do this to Patrick because it does not work

Especially: moreover

Exercise: sports, running, etc.

Which composer do you like?

Genre: heavy metal, classical music, jazz, pop, elevator music, etc., J Pop, K Pop

I listen to music when I am drawing.

 

How do I go to the convenience store? X

How do I get to the convenience store? Correct.

Location: place

What is our location now?

We are in a classroom.

Probably your number one chance to talk English to a stranger is for directions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Midterm Exam

 

Let’s preview the vocabulary.

Notice: look at or pay attention to

Featured: shown; emphasized

Hit: push the button

Ecuador is a country in South America. It means equator in English.

Zero degrees

My pleasure: you’re welcome; don’t mention it

Synonym: two words with the same meaning

Very fast: very quick

Spacing out

As a matter of fact is a synonym for actually.

Synonym is two words with the same meaning.

Fast/quick     strong/powerful   smart/intelligent

Faux pas: mistake for cultural misunderstanding

Custom: habit for a culture

Habit: just for you

I checked with the university. They said we do NOT have to do presentations (speech) any more. Next week is the midterm exam.

I will tell you the words to study for next week first.

Part I: know that vocabulary

Part II: Prepositions and gerunds

We hate to eat taro: infinitive

We detest eating taro. gerund

 

Adjective and preposition collocation

Listening Practice

 

 

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell ______?

 

Addicted   Feliks  

 

 

Rubik’s cube 

Apostrophe

Algarithms

 

 

world record

Genre Autistic

 

 

 

Random

 Rhubarb Pie

Long time, no see.

We have the midterm test/exam in two weeks. I will tell you the words and grammar to study next week.

We must do a writing assignment each semester.

It is worth 10% of your grade. We have to do two stories. Let us do that today so we don’t have to worry about it later. The reason we need to write five or more sentences per paragraph is to develop the idea. Not hygienic. In English, we eat soup, not drink it. In America, you cannot pick up the bowl. It is considered rude.

 

I have written my name.

Let’s check the homework now. We will write the paragraphs after the break. We will write them at 4.10

 

 

Grammar: Infinitive

To + Verb

I like to eat vanilla ice cream.

Gerund

Verb + ing

I enjoy eating vanilla ice cream.

I will choose the students randomly.

Today’s lesson: This is the meaning of life.

Life is random events.

Preposition: in, on, up, down, across, between…

Extrovert: a person who likes to talk

I am starting to believe Betty is an extrovert.

Introvert: a person with a shy personality

Rarely: seldom   Stop spacing out.

Apologize: say sorry. I want to apologize.

Idiom:

I have too much on my plate. I have too much work or responsibilities.

Object: refuse or say “no”

Details: information

Indent

        I talked to Mia Chen this afternoon. Mia used to

 

work at Friday’s restaurant. Her favorite foreign

 

restaurant is The Tokyo Harbor. She usually orders

 

sushi for dinner. She drinks whisky highballs there.

 

She will have four or five every time.

        I talked to Sunny Tsai this afternoon. She used

 

to work in an Italian restaurant called Mario and

 

Luigi’s. Her favorite restaurant is Hera because the

 

pepperoni pizza is tasty. She also ordered pasta.

The first five sentences. The

 

For a beverage, Sunny prefers black tea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listening Practice:

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell ++++++++?

Kazakhstan    occupation: job    Andy’s

Adrenaline tacky

 

 

 

Kazakhstan    kowtow   drop  dropped

Kiss butt   Occupation: job   Andy’s   Tacky