VIP Class Notes (Celeste) [S]

1. Read the storytelling exercise below a few times and be prepared to retell in your next class.

2. Write a short story about what you were thinking and feeling during this experience. 

to get dressed / get a new iPhone / get married / get a new job
get dinner / get coffee / get supplies 

wake / woke / woken (past past)
eg. My son had woken up at 7am all last month.
eg. I had woken up late every day last week.
eg. I had woken up at 7am everyday.

Vocabulary

May I know where you are from? = too formal, too polite
So, where are you from? = native, easy going, natural, common

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C: Are you comfortable talking about your family?
P: No, it’s ok. / Yes, it’s ok. 

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vague adj. – not clear, not specific

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ground – outside (grass, dirt, mud, street, sidewalk)
floor – inside (bathroom, kitchen, carpet, rug)

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stitches – fengzhen

What is his name? How old is he? What does he look like? What does he like?

Can you tell me something about him that makes you laugh or makes you angry? Who? What? Where? when? Why? How?

My son looks like me and my son like toys like play football and also he like singing. His name is Brian and he is 5 years old. He is always naughty.

So last month I took my son to Hangzhou and my husband took him to the swimming pool and after swimming they go to the shower and my son was too naughty so, he want to help his father. So, my fell down in the shower room. What happened is bleeding and went to the hospital and ___. So he is crying so he just say he afraid I dying. I just say don’t worry, I’ll be with you always, take it easy, don’t cry. So I bought some toys for him so he stopped crying because it’s very late so he doesn’t sleeping. That’s all.

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His name is Brian, he is 5 years old, and he is always naughty. My son looks like me but he is shorter. My son likes toys like cars and he likes to play/playing football with his friends who are in his kindergarten after class in the park. Also he likes singing songs by a Chinese singer, Xue Zhi Qian, who is a young, popular man.

So last month my husband and I took my son to Hangzhou. One evening, my husband took him to the swimming pool at the health club at the hotel. After swimming, they went to the shower and my son wanted to help his father. In the shower, the bottle of shampoo fell down on my son’s head. So, he fell down in the shower room and suddenly/at first, he cried. Next, he was bleeding, so the hotel drove us to the hospital and he got stitches. (So) he was crying and just kept asking, “Am I going to die?”  I just told him, “don’t worry, I’ll always be with you, take it easy, don’t cry.” After he got his stitches it was almost/around 11PM and he was very tired. So I bought some toys to distract him so he would stop crying and go to sleep. That’s all.