●Where are you from?Shanghai1:A coastal city with 16 millions of people--population: populous adj.Densely-populated sparsely populated2:Financial centreeconomic centre--job opportunities3:Multi-cult
●Where are you from?
Shanghai
1:A coastal city with 16 millions of people
--population: populous adj.
Densely-populated; sparsely populated
2:Financial centre=economic centre
--job opportunities
3:Multi-culture; culture diversity
4:Travelling city
--tourist attraction=a place of interests; scenic spot=historic place
5: Food
--special local food e.g: dim sum
--sweetie food
●Studying or working?
1:Studying
I am studying in Fudan University. My major is Chinese(For my diploma, I read Chinese. ) I like my courses very much, as it really interesting and feed me with the knowledge and make me a better and deeper understanding of the culture, history and custom.
2:Working
I work in a school as a teacher.
●Do you like your school?
Of course, I like my school. As my school has a very good atmosphere, and teachers they are really professional, who with very strong academic qualification.
●Name? Meaning of your name?
Who give the name to you? Easy to change you name?
1:Li Ning, English name is L.N -alexander
2:no special meaning, just a name, for its nice sound. OR it means intelligence and full of wisdom.
3:Father
4:Easy. Fill in an application form.
●Do you like English? How many languages you speak?
1:Absolutely yes, I keen on/fond of/like English very much.
2:Only 2, Chinese and English.
●Besides English, what language do you want to learn?
French, French language is the most elegant language in the world. And also, work as a diplomatic language.
●International language: English OR Chinese?
1:English:
--world wide use language
--developed countries:
UK; Australia; USA; Canada
--cover around our life: textbook; website; TV and Radio; Instructions
2:Chinese:the official language in China is Mandarin. But, we have many regional dialects, it means people from different places they often speak different dialect, accent, intonation, even some different characters.
●English is easy to learn? Yes Or No?
Yes, it is, comparing to Chinese, it is really easy. English only has 26 letters. Easy to spell and remember. For instance, the word “hope”, when you know the pronunciation, you can pronounce the word by pronunciation rules, then, you can spell it. Chinese language, even you know the pronunciation, afterwards, sometime you can not write the characters.
●Mobile phone? = Internet
1：优点和缺点：24 hours reachable
2:Surf the web; take photos; listen to music; download information; store information; record sound; connect to the internet; send and receive messages; chat with/to friends; access a website; search for information on net
●Ring sb Or text sb?
1: Ring sb directly.
2: do not bother sb, text sb
●Collect sth?
1: photos: nice memory
2: books and dictionaries: thesaurus dictionary; students learner dictionary.
●House or flat? Change your room?
1: House: spacious; more rooms
2: Flat: homely; cozy; comfortable
3:Change a set of furniture
●News? Local news and international news?
--To get the latest information=cutting-edge information
--Local: to have a better understanding of your own country
--International: What’s happened around the world?
●Favourite colour?
Green: nature lover
Orange: sports lover
●Favourite number?
--11: date of my birth
--6;8: everything goes smoothly
●Favourite bird?
--pigeon: peace and safe
●Favourite flowers?
1:Rose—Red—Romantic
2:Lily; Tulip; Rose; Lotus; Peony; Daisy
●Happiness?
方法一：quotation 引用
Bertrand Russell: Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. 任何你擅长的东西都会促进你的快乐。
方法二：来源你的生活：getting into a good university; good friend;
●Gift?=Digital products?
Iphone; Internet
●Do you like to meet new friends?
Yes; meet friends from all over the world.
--share and exchange experience
--to learn sth from each others
●Internet dating?
No, fictitious.
Cyber affairs网恋 is really fake.
●Noise? = Pollution?
--house renovation
--horns are honking
--emissions/car exhaust
--factory, runoff
--plastic bags(canvases)
●Spend your holiday. Travel or at home?
Travelling:
--to experience sth different cultures and history
--to enjoy the local exotic food
--to enjoy the historic place and beautiful sceneries
--to experience the language
--make friends from all over the world. To understand their cultures. When you know sb’s culture, you are showing courtesy to others.
Part 3
●Digital products
Ipad; GPS(global positioning system); cordless phone无线电话；digital camera;
MP3=It’ll be so much easier to learn a new language
●Electronic products: Expensive?
Yes. Qualification equals to price.
●Rewarding: Appraisal words and financial incentives?
They are in a mutual rewarding situation.
--Appraisal words: stimulation; motivation
--Financial incentives: equal to your outcomes
●Parents buy expensive gifts to children
Based on the functional and educational meaning
Gifts qualifications:
--safety and high quality
--educational and functional
--develop kid’s potentials
●Children will greedier in the near future?
Kids to learn from their parents:
--Example is better than the precept.
--Do not meet/satisfy their every need.
--Teach children the attitude towards life and moral ground/ethical judgment
●on-line shopping
--save your time and petrol
--E-commerce: click and paid
--reasonable/nice price
--it contains wide range of the products
--缺点：The quality does not guarantee
--缺点：you can not see the real products
●Under pressures: How to cheer up?
Movie; Travel; Shopping;
●Travel to big city or small city?
--Big city:
Metropolitan--modern
Fashionable
Historic place
Fantastic food
--Small city:
Local culture, food, scenic spot
●Travel alone or with group of people
Group of people: Share and exchange experience and teamwork
●Animals keep as a pet? Raise a pet
Puppy; kitten; a good companion
●Why people stop to domesticate the wild animals?
No animals are available to tame.
●Job satisfactory or salary?
The relationship between the job satisfactory and salary are often in a mutual rewarding situation.
If you really satisfy with you job, but the salary is comparatively low, that’s very bad
If your salary is comparatively high, but he job satisfactory is poor, that’s also really bad
●Job in the near future?
Teacher; accountant; freelance;
●Live in big city PK small city
--Big city
Metropolitan-modern-fashionable
Public transportation
Public infrastructure e.g:
Library—all kinds of books
Stadium—all sorts of facilities
School—with strong academic qualification and good atmosphere
Hospital—skilled and experienced
Job—more job opportunities
Life—life pace is much faster
--Small city
Life pace is gentle
Fresh air
Convenient and peaceful
Not very crowded
Transportation is cycling.
●Home-made food or restaurant food?
Home-made cuisine
Hygienic
Healthy food
High quality
Low-calories/calories restriction
Restaurant food
All kind of the styles
Tasty but very fatty
●Learn how to cook?
It is really necessary to learn a skill like cook.
On the one hand it is a way to feed you; on the other hand, it is really my hobby and interest.
●Take pictures?
Nice sightseeing; Travelling
●Education in city PK education in countryside?
Education in city
--strong academic qualification and good teachers
--good facilities: library; stadium; playground
--Very good teaching recourses
Education in countryside
--Lack of good teacher and facilities
●Today’s education and education in the past?
Today’s education
--Quality-oriented education/character education
--Creativity
--Critical thinking
--Focus on the: self-motivation and stimulation and potentials
--student’s centred
Education in the past
--Exam-oriented education
--teacher’s centred
--Cramming method
●Green space
--ecological
--atmosphere
--fresh air
●Magazine
Man’s magazine
--Car; weapon; economics; sports; vogue;
Woman’s magazine
--fashion; cosmetics; vogue
●People prefer magazine to books. Why?
Magazine it contains variety of information to meet different people’s needs.
●Leader’s qualification
Teamwork
Leadership
Insight
Perseverance
Diligent/studious
Enthusiastic
●Food’s future
Fast grown food
●Ad gives you more or less choice?
To some extent, it gives your more choices, but, it often leads you to an end with no choice. As too many choices, you can not make your mind to pick out which one you like it most.
