Lesson 17 – Challenge yourself
The topic of this lesson is activities I have done. In the lesson, we learnt how to :
- talk about activities I have started and stopped
- learn phrases to talk about starting or stopping activities
- practise linking to sound more natural.
[In/On/At]
- In 2017 ….
- In Jan/Feb …
- On Sun/Mon ….
- On my birthday …
- At 9 o’clock
[to do good v.s to do well]
I’d like to do good (ph.) – to do sth for charity/others
I’d like to do well – to do sth in success
It run in our family that … = 全家幾代都 …
Example: It run in our family that we can pick up tech things quite well.
#pick up (sth.) quite well = learn (sth.) quickly
I [use/do/go] (sth./somewhere) as [much/more/often] as I’d like to … = 我想做/去…愈多愈好/愈常愈好
[Time Linkers] (Also Ref. Lesson 12)
- At the moment, I …
- Some years ago I …
- Now I …
[Start(ed) doing sth.]
- it’s still going, which is nice.
- I started doing sth. about (a year and a half ago).
- I do it because it helps me (not only physically, but also mentally,) to stay fresh.
- I enjoy the (social) aspect of it.
- I have made some new friends there.
- Now I really enjoy the routine.
- At the moment, I don’t have …
- There used to be someone who did sth. with me …
- Some years ago I did sth …
- It was very interesting at first, because I had to …
- I did/made/joined…
- basically the reason I stopped ding it was that I … and I just needed out.
- I took it up about two years ago.
p.S – We could use different tenses to show whether we are doing sth still or not any more! – Be caution about the tenses usage!
To talk about why we start(ed) doing something, we could say something like :
Someone I know mentioned that he was learning flying, and I had some free time and my social life was not exactly thrilling. So I thought maybe I could try aviation! I tried it, I loved it and I’m still doing it.
To talk about why we stop(ped) doing something, we could say something like :
I liked (doing sth) but it is on the backburner now, and I don’t (do sth.) as much as I’d like to. Basically the reason I stopped doing it as that I (was doing far too much/ reasons…..). And I just needed out.
Well, my Bro mentioned that he was learning English at BC, and I had to up my English game (ph.) for my next vocation. So I thought maybe I could try learning there! I tried it, and now I join the lessons as much as I could do so.
I’d love to learning more about coffee but it is on the backburner now, I don’t have much extra time for it – and the more important goal for me is to be a real commercial pilot, so I just needed out.
