Online Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Write a story about what kind of pictures you would like to take when you’re forty.
Will you wear foreign clothes? Will you go to a special place? Will you do something fun during the pictures (skiing, climbing…)?

Vocabulary

Green Screen – a screen put behind someone in pictures or movies so that a computer can put in a different background
e.g. We took pictures in front of a green screen so that we could make them look like we were on the moon.

The “–” used below is called a dash, and it is used to connect a partial sentence to what it describes.
e.g. Below, it adds a description of “clothes”

Grammar

Complex descriptions:
— Chinese usually describes a noun as the main point in a sentence.
e.g. They are traditional Chinese clothes photos
— English usually describes a verb as the main point in a sentence.
e.g. In the photo I am wearing traditional Chinese clothes
The first is talking about what kind of picture it is, while the second is talking about what you’re wearing in the picture.

I used my phone to took this photo – I used my phone to take this photo

This week I went to a studio to choose some photos I had taken last week. They are traditional Chinese clothes photos, like I’m an ancient person. (Why?) Because this year I am 30 years old and I want to have some special memories. I just choose some clothes like I am a queen. They also let me wear some wig. When I was 20 I took some photos like this, but not traditional Chinese clothes. Something looks very nice, some clothes that I won’t wear during days.

This week I went to a studio to choose from some photos I had taken last week.** In the photos, I am wearing traditional Chinese clothes, like I’m an ancient person. (Why?) Because this year I am 30 years old and I want to have some special memories. I just chose some clothes to make me look like I am a queen. They also let me wear some wigs. When I was 20 I also took some photos like this, but not in^^ traditional Chinese clothes–something that looks very nice, some clothes that I wouldn’t normally wear.

** This week I went back to the studio to pick out some photos from ones I had taken last week.

^^ but in those pictures I wasn’t wearing traditional Chinese clothes.
This is the “long form” of the sentence in the paragraph. This is again an example of how English usually describes what someone is doing, not the noun (the photo).