03/16/2023

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 03/16/2023
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Free Talking
Topic: Recent trip
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: Last one was the place of the person who was painter around 2 or 300 years ago. He was famous in Joseon dynasty. He went back to his hometown and build some house.
✔Better say: The last place (I visited) was the home of a famous painter from 2 or 300 years ago, during the Joseon dynasty. He went back to his hometown and built a house.

✖You said: He did drawing. Some of descendant are still painting. There was some exhibition of them.
✔Better say: He was a painter, and some of his descendants continue to paint to this day. There is an exhibition of their paintings/artworks. // He was a painter and some of his descendants are also painters.

✖You said: I might stay it more to look around the city but I just wanted to visit some place far away from the Seoul. I watched this place from TV show.
✔Better say: I could’ve stayed longer to look around the city but I just wanted to visit a place far away from Seoul. I saw this place in a TV show.

✖You said: There was not many people in there.
✔Better say: There weren’t many people there.

✖You said: It was the end of the opening time of this place.
✔Better say: The place was about to close.

✖You said: The food was less than my expectation.
✔Better say: The food didn't meet my expectations.
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🔴 Homework:
Please take note of what you learned in this lesson and apply it in your future conversations.
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