VIP Class Notes (Dimple)

Reading

Molly’s First Party

Vocabulary

race car 赛车, cars engineered to be used for racing

rotate 旋转, to move in circle around a center

press 按压, to push

glue stick 胶水棒

brand 品牌

Italian – from Italy, made in Italy

dawn – when the sun sets down, between night and afternoon

mimic – to copy someone’s behavior, action, 模仿

mother tongue – the language you speak when you were a child

i.e. Chinese is my mother tongue.

native speaker – someone who speaks the language when he/she was born

skull 骷髅头

antique 古董

shovel 铲子

medal 金属

detector – used to detect 探测器

hammer 锤子

sewer – where the dirty water, rain goes 下水道

gold coin 金币

Writing exercise

Original:

Mr Bean made a machine to find treasures. But he find lots of things in his yard. And then Mr Bean find a box and there are lots of money in the box. And Mr Bean was very happy. Two bad guys into Mr Bean’s home and then the police office go into his home and toke them away. Mr Bean was very sad in the end because his treasure went into the sewer.

Revised:

Mr Bean made a machien to find treasures. He found lots of trash in his yard. Then he went searching, and found a treasure box with a lot of money in it. Mr Bean was very happy. But two bad guys followed him to his home, and then the police officers came to take the treasure box away. In the end, Mr Bean was very sad because his gold coin dropped into the sewer.

Pronunciation

Jerry’s pronounciation is really good. I can tell his vocabulary base helps him break the sentences in a more natural way. I would encourage him to speak more like a native. A good way to do it is to listen to audio books and repeat after the audio.

Homework

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

Recite the words we learned from today’s class. Write a story with “dawn”, “antique”, “shovel”, “sewer” and “gold coin”. Please pay attention to past tense when writing the story.