Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

happy year of the ox!

tan – brown skin from the sun
eg. I got a tan

elderly people – old people

transparent – see through
eg. my window is transparent

Grammar

I have been painting  / I’ve been painting / I was painting

I have been painting = from the past to now, I am sometimes / often / always / never painting
I was painting = from Monday to Wednesday I painted a lot

I have was painting 

my husband bought for me one – bought one for me 

Vocabulary

everything else – all other
eg. This meal is really good but everything else at the restaurant is bad.

it was a lovely day / it was a nice day = sunny

they put the needle here and don’t inject anything 

TV channel
eg. all of our TV channels are in English or Chinese

OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

shirt, tie, jacket

Pronunciation

vein – don’t say “bain”

But the goose said to him, you can jump, run, stroll, eat, uproot everything. The world is a wonderful place when you’re young, and Wilbur jumped in the air and twirled, then he ran, dug, plowed and shot through the orchard, before anyone noticed him was outside his pen.
Mrs Zuckerman was the first to see him and shouted to Homer and Luvry, she said the Pig’s out, he’s under the apple tree, and she cried again, Homer, Luvry the pig´s out, And Wilbur thought, “now the trouble starts”. The goose noticed to they yelled too and said to Wilbur, run run downhill and go to the woods, they will never catch you. The dog, a cocker spaniel, heard the commotion / noise / ruckus / loud sounds / hulabaloo and he wanted to join the chase too. Wilbur saw everyone wanted to catch him and he was not sure if the woods were the best place to escape, because he had never been there before, so the woods seemed a long way off / very far away.