Chapter 9 Teaching Upgrade
When they got home, Jenny fryed two steaks and made a tomato salad, and the two started making up for lunch at 4 pm.
On the dining table, Zhang Cheng said, "I didn't expect there were so many Asians in the city."
Jenny: "You think I was studying Chinese in college because when I was in high school, there were more and more tourists from Asia, especially in China, but the number of translators could not keep up. At that time, I thought that if I learned Chinese, I would definitely find a good job after graduation. You see, don't you now, earning 52,000 US dollars a year, the middle class."
"Are you still afraid that the University of Nevada graduates will not be able to find a good job? This is a prestigious school."
"Present schools, yes. Every year, the University of Nevada only graduates with tens of thousands of bachelor's degrees. Do you think you can find a good job that is satisfactory? Don't joke, a few top students naturally go to large companies or master's and doctoral degrees. Most of the remaining jobs are under great pressure, and the employment situation and economy have been bad in recent years. As far as I know, after graduating from mechanical engineering, some people drive taxis."
"This situation is everywhere. I think it has something to do with population growth. You see, the ones you are going to retire now are that there were not so many college students graduating thirty or forty years ago. Although there are more jobs in some places today, some traditional industries have decreased.
I have seen the bankruptcy case in Detroit, and there is no way to go bankrupt in that place. You think in the past, hundreds or thousands of people were working on assembly lines to build cars in a workshop. Now, only one person presses the button in a workshop, and the car comes out of the assembly line by itself.”
"It's East Detroit, which has basically been abandoned. It's okay around me. Now the unemployment rate is so high, in fact, some of the guilds are making trouble. Workers' wages are getting higher and higher. Capitalists have moved all the companies to Latin America for the sake of cost and corporate survival. In Asia, there are American companies everywhere in Mexico. If China is now a factory in the world, Mexico is an American factory."
"There is also such a thing. I thought Mexico only had drug dealers."
During the meal, Jenny answered a call and came back and took a courier package: "After eating, go and post a card with me."
Zhang Cheng asked, "What card?"
"I'm teaching now. I'm teaching you English now, but I'm good at speaking oral or illiterate. The most annoying thing about English is to memorize words. Fortunately, there is no need to memorize dictionary in Chinese. I'm going to paste everything in my home with bilingual teaching cards in Chinese and English, so that you can see it at home every day in the future, so that you can learn a lot of words in your life. There's no way to do professionalism, just memorize it."
“OK.”
After Zhang Cheng took over the work, he found that the card was not simply written with a layer of self-adhesive stickers at the back of Chinese and English. This is a batch of intelligent teaching cards, like toys. You can speak by yourself with a press of the micro speaker and say both Chinese and English twice. Press twice.
There are also some card things that you don’t have or can’t be posted at home - such as jeeps, cats, dogs, chickens and ducks, which are temporarily put on, and just use them as teaching toys.
After Zhang Cheng pasted all the possible stickers, he said to Jenny: "You have invested a lot of money."
Jenny took out her laptop: "This is an electronic bill, remember to pay the bill. I'll go swimming in the back."
Zhang Cheng stumbled on Jenny's English interface laptop to settle the bill, then changed his swimming trunks and went to the back pool to consume calories.
The swimming pool behind the villa is almost built according to the scale of a standard swimming pool. It is a large swimming pool that is twenty meters wide and fifty meters long. Such a large swimming pool is very spacious, not to mention a family of hippos.
In the following days, Zhang Cheng began to learn Dark English every day under the guidance of Jenny. After two days, he sent a second-hand car worth 800 US dollars worth of buy online, he started to learn to drive under the guidance of Jenny.
I had plenty of time to study, and driving was still very simple. After seven days of study, Zhang Cheng went to Reno to register and wait for the Nevada driver's license. After a few days of exams, he passed the exam and got the second green card.
Jenny's teaching has gradually upgraded. After Zhang Cheng gradually passed the oral conversation, he began to let Zhang Cheng drive to the cinema in Reno to watch a movie to exercise his listening skills. According to Jenny, because everyone knows that Zhang Cheng is Asian, with average English level and speaking very slowly, so that Zhang Cheng can understand it. But no matter whether you are Asian, Latino, African or not, your speaking speed is very fast.
Zhang Cheng asked Jenny: "Is it different to watch DVDs or TV at home?"
"No, movies are like cars, and are the main body of American culture. Generally speaking, more people come to the cinema to pass the time when the economic situation is not good. Now it is a period of economic depression. Going to watch movies will help you understand American society. Remember to buy more popcorn."
"I understand." Zhang Cheng drove out of the garage, which was even more worn than when he bought it (it was inevitably hit several times when he was practicing) and went on the road.
Washau County has a population of more than 400,000, which is equivalent to a medium-sized county in China. There will be no desolate scene like Canada or the Midwest states in the United States, where they cannot encounter a single car when driving for a long time.
Zhang Cheng drove to Reno slowly and found a cinema for an hour and a half. Zhang Cheng bought a monthly ticket here (Zhang Cheng understood why Americans go to watch movies without any trouble. If you have monthly tickets, you will lose money if you don’t watch them). He bought two big bags of popcorn. Zhang Cheng still missed popcorn very much. When he was a child, he would go and have a shot.
That's right, it's a shot. American popcorn is exploded by microwave or direct heating. In the eyes of Americans, the popcorn machine used by Chinese people is simply a cannon. When it is heated and pressurized, it is as earth-shaking as the cannon fires. Countless shells explode out of it and produce a large amount of white smoke.
The first movie Zhang Cheng started watching halfway. It was a family comedy about the incident that happened in France during the protection of a family of four who betrayed the eldest American Mafia and his family of four. The protector, mafia killer, children's school classmates and emotional life, water pipe repairman, pollution factory director, and the bizarre behavior of the former mafia. His father started writing books and became extremely interested in concealing his lies.
Of course, like all comedy films, although the dark forces are very powerful, they still have a happy finale in the end - sometimes Zhang Cheng also thought about what would happen if the comedy film ended with a family of four being killed, but such an ending should be called a documentary rather than a comedy film. This is probably the difference.
After the movie was played, most of the audience dispersed in groups. After turning on the light, Zhang Cheng noticed that most of the parents came to see this place with their children. Zhang Cheng thought about himself again and felt that his life was so hard. At such an old age, his parents never took him to watch a movie or even Disney (then you don’t have this one, take you to the zoo, well, it’s enough for children to go to the zoo). Those who took him to watch movies were all teachers, and those who accompanied him to watch movies were all classmates.
Zhang Cheng didn't eat much popcorn after watching the half-time movie, so he decided to sit down. After a while, the audience began to enter the venue one after another, but this time most of them were couples embracing each other.
The second movie tells the story of a father and son finding true love. The son’s girlfriend is disgusted with the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend. My father found a girlfriend in his prime but was his son’s ex-girlfriend + female classmate.
The film itself is not interesting except selling meat and feelings, but what is interesting is that Zhang Cheng's side begins to play. When the lights are dark, the couple started to chew. After a few minutes to more than ten minutes, these couples changed into women and set off with long, short, high or low roars...
And all this is only a few feet away from Zhang Cheng...
Chapter completed!