Whatsup? 1B!

The class project of making a CD compilation is going very well. I think most of the songs have been chosen and sent to the burner, Anni. I am worried that the songs I chose will not be popular. Anyway, they are in English and I like them so they should be OK.

Are you possible? 
This sounds quite strange, like I think you are a ghost and I cannot believe that you are really on this earth.  I think we would be much more likely to say, “Is it possible?” or “Is it OK with you?”

We worked on the project over three class hours and it was quite fun, even if many students were tired on Wednesday. Thursday was lots of fun. I really want to hear the song that we sang.

We started out Wednesday’s class with me giving out instructions about the project. I think that maybe I was not clear enough because some students thought I wanted them to make a CD, like as in making music. Royal thought it would be possible to make 2-3 songs in an hour. Amazing! That sounds like a project for another day.

At first, students made up questions that they would need to answer about the project.

Some of the questions were:

What is the purpose of this CD?
How should we make it?
When will we make it?
What should the title be?
How many songs should we have?
What kind of music should we have?
Which singers will we use?
How will we choose the songs?
How will we design the cover?
Who will design the cover?
Who will burn the CD?
Who will _____?

Some important words from this day’s lesson were: deadline and acknowledgment.

A common error that I heard was:

We haven’t many times. >>> We don’t have much time. 
This seems to be two errors at once. We would usually say We don’t have instead of we haven’t. Also, time is uncountable so we would say much time. Please don’t confuse time with times, as in, “I have been to Pusan three times.” This sentence is not about time on the clock, but the amount of occasions that something has happened.

Thursday’s class was like a big meeting that lasted for 50+ minutes. It was the first time that we never split into smaller groups to discuss something. We talked about all the important points about the project (and many other things) in a circle. I thought the conversation went very well. The captain did a great job to run the meeting.

There were some errors from this session that I think it is useful to think about.

Are you decide? 
Much, much more common would be:  Have you decided? 
or
Did you decide? 
Also, please be careful with  sentences like, “I don’t decide” because this means that you never ever make a decision. It would be very possible to live life like this!

I heard many problems with the idea of taking a picture. If you take a picture, you are the person holding the camera. If you have your picture taken, someone else is holding the camera and pointing it at you. I think some of the girls in the class do not like to have their picture taken. If they told me that they don’t like to take pictures I would think that they meant it is boring to use a camera to take photographs.

In the middle of class we suddenly started talking about bedtimes and what time we usually go to bed.  A useful question for this is, “What time do you usually go to bed?”

Remember: The early bird catches the worm.

Some (possibly) new words from this class were: receipt, compress, and upload.

I am very eager to see how the pictures came out. Everyone please take good care and have a fantastic weekend! Great job this week!