"DC Trip" - On-line Eglish Class With My Student - December 4, 2014

Mimi:

Thanks for sharing!

1. Great writing you have this week.  As long as you are comfortable with your financial status I have no business to meddle your expense affair.  Just be sure the mission you are here is to learn the America culture and education.  Any experience you have ever acquired so far will be a good opportunity to broaden your view in any perspective.  I know you are smart enough to know your priority as a foreign exchange student.  Just turn every bit of prospect you have learned from here to your advantages when you go back to Taiwan. 

2. We discussed about the informal and slangy word expressions - I’m gonna, awesome, yummy... etc. today.  As far as I know, everyone seems to use it.  It's an avoidable speech habit, that even the "educated people” have.  Please listen carefully to the TV anchormen and women that they normally do not slur and mingle all these words.  So write or speak them with a formal fashion and use them sparingly if you can.  It may make you appear more intelligent; however, if used incorrectly, can only make you appear ignorant. 

3. I would still like to correct a few underlines I missed in the class earlier:

. English accents

. I could even take my friends to the museums and places where you have introduced me before.  spots and brought here are not used correctly.

Examples:

Brought - I order the take-out dinner to bring it to you since you are hungry and so sick to go out.  So there is a difference between take and bring.

Spot - is a place of relatively small and definite limits - The places I took you before are landmarks of American History in DC.  They are not small spots. 

Grandaunt

Janice Chang

On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:21 AM, 楊 pinky wrote:

Dear Aunt Janice:

I finally found how much I paid for YMCA Hostel in New York. It’s averagely 60 dollar per night.

It’s always nice to talk to you.  Have a good day!

Mimi

REWRITE:

Dear Aunt Janice:

The trip to Washington DC was great.  Even though it was snowing when we arrived at Dulles Airport, the weather was still better than Michigan.  I booked FAPA guest house one month before the trip.  I contacted with Chris who takes charge of guest house management.  He gave us a good deal which I really appreciated.  It was so touching when I carried my luggage and got off Eastern Market station.  It seemed like the first day when you and Uncle Ben brought me to take the volunteer job.  DC, I’m back!  I wasn’t the new girl who had no idea how American life would be.  I wasn’t the shy girl who had a hard time to order a cup of Starbucks coffee.  I wasn’t the timid girl who had a problem to understand different English accent.  I could feel that I had grown up quickly since August.  I could even take my friends to the museums and spots where you brought me before.  I’m glad to hear that my friends enjoy the trip a lot and they don’t want to go back to Flint, neither do I.  I love DC!

Did you enjoy your trip? Talk to you later.

Happy Thanksgiving!