VIP 1.5 Hour Class Notes (Nick) [W + R]

Homework

Use pages 14 and 15 to write about what you like to eat. Which of the plants do you like? What part of the plant do you eat?

What about for these other plants? Which part do you eat?
Potato, Eggplant, Coconut, Cabbage

Vocabulary

Animal Sounds:
Cat – meow, purr
Dog – woof, arf, bow-wow
Cow – moo
Rooster – cock-a-doodle-doo
Lion – roar

Cow – 牛 🐮

Rooster – 公鸡 🐓

Coconut – 椰子 🥥
Coconut Water – what you drink out of a coconut
Coconut Milk – made from the white part inside the coconut

to March – to walk in lines with other people, to walk in a formal way
e.g. In the army, soldiers learn to march together.

Parade – when lots of people walk together to celebrate something; like a big walking party on the street 游行 youxing
e.g. Every Thanksgiving there is a big parade in New York, with marchers, bands, and balloons.

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Honeycomb – the small circles that are in the beehive; like rooms in a house

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Direction – which way you are looking, or walking 方向
e.g. I am looking North.
Directions – when someone tells you how to get somewhere
e.g. I asked him how to get to SmartEnglish. He said: “Go to Jing’an Temple. Then cross the street, and go to the ninth floor.”

The Cardinal Directions:
North, South, East, West
北, 南, 东, 西

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Stripes – lines of different colors in the same direction 条纹
e.g.

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Lightning – the light that comes from the clouds in a storm
Thunder – the loud sound that comes after lightning

Fingernail – the hard part on top of your finger 指甲
Scratching – use your fingernails on a hard thing, or to stop an itch
e.g. The dog was scratching at the door.
e.g. I had to scratch my nose because it was itching.

Yard – a place outside a house with grass

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Apartment – a place where you can live inside of a larger building
House – one building for one group of people to live in
e.g. In Shanghai, there not many houses. Most people live in apartments.
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Snowflake – one piece of snow 雪花,雪片
e.g. No two snowflakes are the same!

Other plants:
Potato - 土豆
Eggplant - 茄子
Cabbage - 白菜

Reading

Jason looked at his watch. It was time for his favorite TV show. He turned on the TV. He sat down in his chair. But then he heard his dog. His dog was scratching at the door. Oh, no, Jason thought. The dog wanted to go out. The dog had to go to the bathroom. If he lived in a house, he could let the dog go out the door and into the yard. But he lived in an apartment. He didn’t have a yard. He had to take the dog for a walk. But if he took the dog for a walk, he would miss his favorite TV show. The dog scratched at the door again. Jason turned off the TV.

Writing exercise

Today, I studied how to be a flag-bearer. I kept practicing walking. I went around the playground twice. I ate meat with rice and mushroom soup. “Yummy!” I played “miao” with my deskmate.


Today, I learned how to be a flag-bearer. I kept practicing practiced walking marching. I went around the playground twice. I ate meat with rice and mushroom soup. “Yummy!” I played “meow” with my desk-mate.

Pronunciation

Hear vs. Heard

Scratched

Apartment

Turned