VIP Class Notes (Ally)[R]

Today we read from “I wonder Why” dinosaur book

Vocabulary

lag: yan chi/ping
ie. Ally hates lag(n) when she’s playing games.

carnivore/herbivore:  meat-eater/plant-eater (person)

prey: lie wu
ie. LB7 is our prey because we can kill them easily/it’s easy to kill them. We call them “short legs”.

feathers: yu mao
ie. All the birds have feathers.

evolve: (n) yan hua, jin hua
ie. Birds evolved from dinosaurs.

believe: xiang xin
ie. Do you believe in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.(n)

appear: chu xian <> disappear
ie. LLW appeared suddenly out of nowhere.

atheist: wu shen lun
ie. Jason is an atheist.

hiccup: (v)打嗝, tiny problem
ie. When we are very full, sometimes we will hiccup.

digest： 消化
ie. Some big plant-eating dinosaurs use stones to digest their food.

vegetarian: su shi de ren
ie. My mom is a vegetarian so she only eats vege burgers.

fierce: xiong meng de
ie. My classmates are fierce when they run.

swallow: tun
ie. A T-rex can swallow you whole.

tyrant: ba wang, cruel king
ie. A famous tyrant in Chinese history is SZW.

enormous: huge, vvvv big
ie. Dinosaurs are enormous

claw: zhua zi
ie. Some dinosaurs have huge claws.

nasty: 极差的; 令人厌恶的; 令人不悦的; 不友好的; 恶意的; 令人不愉快的; 危险的; 严重的;
ie. We have a nasty problem.

Grammar

dead meat: wo si ding le
ie. I’m dead meat.

of = de, + range
ie. One of my classmates
ie. A lot of people
ie. A little of what they hunt

again
You can try it/do it again.

Tell me 3 things you already know about dinosaurs:
Some dinosaurs eat meat and some likes eating plants.
Some big dinosaurs like eating meat but they like eating decomposed meat/dead meat/dead flesh.
They don’t like hunting by themselves. They like to fight for the prey.
They only eat a little of what they hunt.
Some dinosaurs like eating fish.

They have a team
They live in a group