VIP Class Notes (David)

Grammar

eat special foods in shanghai – eat local shanghai cuisine/food/dishes

i’ve been thinking this question before – i’ve thought of this before/i’ve been thinking about this

i was a little child – i was young

i went on my academic career – i continued my academic career

they where very scaring – they where very scared

there was on application on the phone – there wasn’t any application on the phone

i listen even a day – i would listen to it the whole day

he came and made a legend – he came and became a legend

Vocabulary

dream – something that you want to achieve

e.g. I have a dream to build an ironman suit

ambition – a dream that has drive/emotion to achieve

e.g. My ambition is to be a professor.

e.g. What is your ambition?

fantasy – something thats either hard or imposible to achieve

e.g. Building a robot like iron man’s is a fantasy.

e.g. Dreams can be fantasies too.

physically impaired persons/people – a more polite way to refer to a disabled person

e.g. I want to create robots to assist the physically impaired.

e.g. My friend has an organization for the physically impaired.

allowance – amount of money given to a child by their parents

e.g. When i was a child, my mom gave me an allowance of 0.5 yuan every week.

e.g. How much allowance is too much?