VIP Class Notes (Celeste)

What was your most memorable birthday celebration? What did you do? With who? Tell a short story in your next class. Speak slowly to focus on your grammar. 

Vocabulary

from my grandparents’ time / a long long time ago / (number) years ago

The movie is a new movie but it takes place (number, 20) years ago in Beijing. 

troupe (troop) n. – a group of performers such as singers or dancers who work and travel together

cruel; brutal; inhuman; ruthless = 残酷
eg. The war was cruel to her.

She lost her mind.
I lost my book.
He brushes his teeth and hair.

When she was a nurse in the war, she saw a lot of  amputees (person with an arm or leg cut off) and corpses(dead people) which made her lose her mind.

I will spend 1 hour on the subway.
It (the subway) will take one hour.

I will book the hotel/restaurant. (book the reservation online / call the hotel and talk to reservations)

I am traveling to Sheshang with my friends on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
I want to go on a short trip with my boyfriend. / I want to go on a weekend getaway with my boyfriend.

get away / getting away / got away – The killer wants to get away and go to another country.

Grammar

She is good at doing sth / She is a good (noun)
eg. She is good at dancing / She is a good dancer.

go to a place (a  country, a city, town, store, the bathroom)
eg. I will go to Sheshang with my friends.