VIP Class Notes (Ally)

adj phrases

Vocabulary

badmouth: talk bad stuff about

pimples: dou dou

imperfection: not perfect spots

youth: nian qing (noun)
ie. Pimples are a sign of youth.

toast: tu si

Grammar

“ask for” +noun (thing you want) = request
ie. I’m asking for her help.
ie. I’m asking for a break. (noun)

“ask” + person/sentence
ie. I asked if Linda is free tonight.
ie. I asked Linda if she is free tonight.

for descriptions, simple tense = description
ie. She says she’s happy. <– description
ie. She said she’s happy. <– event. something happened-> I heard her say she’s not happy.
ie. She is a baby. <– description
ie. She is being a baby. <— event; she’s acting immature

“dirty laundry” = bad thing you did/bad secret
ie. I don’t want to air(v) my dirty laundry to the whole world.

“I dig ” = I like

subject vs. location
– place names can only be locations, not S
ie. Here have -> I(subject) have … here.

have = to own

“Do you …”? : In a QUESTION SENTENCE, Do is not a verb, you still need a verb
ie. Do you have(v) pimples?
ie. Did you do (v) homework?
“Are you…” ?  :ARE = VERB, no more verbs, use noun or adj
ie. Are you Linda? (no other V)
ie. Are you free(adj) tonight(time)?

ed vs ing
ie. Ally is bored. (Ally has nothing to do <—) Ally feels bored. (feel = verb, bored = state,feeling)
ie. Ally is boring. (Ally has no hobbies, makes no jokes, you don’t feel happy with Ally)
ie. Ally is annoyed by the annoying kids.
ie. Ally is excited by the exciting news.

Right now, here has many pimples
Right now, I have lots of pimples here.

color is become very dark
color becomes dark
leaves a mark/scar

I feel not very lucky
I don’t feel very lucky (put NO on the verb)
I feel unlucky.

Q: Tell me something bad you did/gossip you heard
A: In my work, I have a design project. I need cooperation with brand marketing team. So they need design a graphic to us, so I asked for brand marketing director. She told me I can communicate with her team member, who name is Ling, but Ling always bu pei he us. So she give me a proposal is very bad. I tried to communicate with her and her director but they’re think it’s perfect design but they don’t want to revise. So I change another way to communicate. I just send the email to my boss, our VP, and asked VP the design is good or not. He said the design is very bad, and he said did you communicate with director? I said yes, but she said it’s OK, so I first show you because I think it’s cannot put this design in the store, because this is garbage.

A: Recently, in my work, I have a design project, and for this project, I need to cooperate with brand marketing team. So they need to make/do a design(n) for us, so I asked the brand marketing director for the design. She told me I can communicate with her team member, whose name/who is named/ who is called Ling, but Ling always refuses to work with us/never(no+always) cooperates with us. So she gave me a very bad proposal/she gave me a proposal that’s not very good/very bad. I tried to communicate with her and her director but even now, they think it’s the perfect design so/and they don’t want to revise it. So I changed my way of communication (noun). I just sent an email to my boss, our VP, and asked the VP if the design is good. He said the design is very bad, and he said did you communicate with director?/asked me if I communicated with the director. I said yes, but she said the design is OK/she gave me the OK,  so I want to show you first before I send it to the store, because I think we cannot put this design in the store, because this is garbage./looks like a piece of toast.

You should communicate to your director again. (to- one way)
You should communicate with your director again.
… talk to your director again.

She will be not say, just unhappy.
She won’t say that she’s unhappy.

Pronunciation

pain – p+A+n

painting – p+A+n+ting

maintain = not “mainten” hear the “A” every time

gain = gay+n

game = gay+m

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