VIP Class Notes (Dimple)

Q: What did you major in college? Tell me about a normal day in your college life, and also your favorite experience in college.

A: I majored in animation. My college life is was relaxed because I’m artist an art student. I only have had class on in the afternoon, from Wednesday to Friday afternoon. And I don’t didn’t have any activities because I‘m was very lazy. I always stay at the apartment, to watch TV or sleeping all day. My teachers is are not serious strict. We always didn’t usually don’t complete homework on time. (A normal day in my college was like this.) I wake up at ten o’clock. Then I will ask my roommate to take a the delivery for me. After lunch, I have a class. My classroom school building is built at on mountain a mountain. So we always take a school car to the classroom. After class, I have dinner then I go to bed and watching TV.

My favorite experience is about my roommate and me have having a street dog (My favorite experience is about having a street dog). The dog is very smart. The first time we meet met her, she was playing at on the grassland. Then she followed us to the apartment. At the beginning, I don’t didn’t want to have a dog. So we send sent her back to school campus. I told my roommate if her she follows us again we will adopt her. So finally we adopted her. The dog is very clever. When she feels hungry or wants to use the toilet, she will bark loudly. Then we will give her some food and walk with her take her out for a walk. Sometimes when we go get dinner with her, we will forget to take her to back home. She will be waiting for us in the apartment when we arrived home get back  we find she has arrived and wait us at apartment. When I we graduated, my roommate take took her to her room home.

Vocabulary

art student – student that studies art or art-related field

dorm – 宿舍

boarding school – 寄宿学校

adopt – 收养

destiny – 命运

campus – the land where the school is, 校园

take … out for a walk – go out for a walk with someone/something

senior center – the place for old men/women to live in，老人院

Grammar

serious v.s. strict

• She is serious about this exam.
• She is strict with her son.

after “always”/”usually”, use the present tense – always/usually + do something

• Tina always dresses for school.
• The shop usually opens at six.

to do something or do something (keep the tense consistent)

• it is wrong to say “to watch TV or sleeping all day”
• it’s correct to say “to go to bed and watch TV”

pay attention to the usage of “the” when talking

Give yourself 2 minutes to prepare for the question “what is your worst memory in college”? Find a mirror to talk back to and give yourself 5 minutes for the practice. While you’re talking to the mirror, record your speaking exercise with your phone. After you’re done, do two things. 1. quickly write down your key points in the exercise on a paper. 2. listen to your recording (you can watch if you like), and pay attention to your usage of “the”, “always”, “usually” and different tenses.