English Grammar Difficulties
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ID: 2193
Upper Intermediate
Learning Chinese is hard, but learning English is difficult too! In this lesson, a Chinese student faces a teacher after failing to get their head around some points in English grammar. Learn how to talk about tense, prepositions, clauses and all those great grammar words in this lesson!
John,Vera
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| SIMPLIFIED | PINYIN | ENGLISH | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 惨了 | cǎn le | tragic | |
| 摸底 | mōdǐ | assessment | |
| 而且 | érqiě | moreover | |
| 粗心 | cūxīn | careless |
王小明到我的办公室来
Wáng Xiǎomíng 王小明dào 到wǒ de 我的bàngōngshì 办公室lái 来
Wang Xiaoming, get into my office!
惨了
cǎn le 惨了
Busted.
你怎么回事啊摸底考试才考了48分你到底复习了没有啊
nǐ 你zěnmehuíshì 怎么回事a 啊mōdǐ 摸底kǎoshì 考试cái 才kǎo 考le 了sìshíbā 48fēn 分nǐ 你dàodǐ 到底fùxí 复习le 了méiyǒu 没有a 啊
What's to be done with you? You only scored 48% on the placement test. Did you review or not?
老师我复习是复习了可是很多东西过了一个暑假都忘记了而且考试时也太粗心了好几个句子一般现在时第三人称单数动词都没加S
lǎoshī 老师wǒ 我fùxí 复习shì 是fùxí 复习le 了kěshì 可是hěn 很duō 多dōngxi 东西guò 过le 了yī 一gè 个shǔjià 暑假dōu 都wàngjì 忘记le 了érqiě 而且kǎoshì 考试shí 时yě 也tài 太cūxīn 粗心le 了hǎo jǐ ge 好几个jùzi 句子yībānxiànzàishí 一般现在时dìsānrénchēng 第三人称dānshù 单数dòngcí 动词dōu 都méi 没jiā 加S S
Teacher, I reviewed and I reviewed, but I forgot lots of things over the summer vacation. Also, when I took the test, I was so careless. There were a lot of sentences where I didn't add an “s” to third person verbs in the present tense.
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