VIP Class Notes (Dimple)

original:

The article talk about that reachers suggest people eat jellyfish instead of extinction of fish [fish on the brink of extinction]. It’s good for managing our fisheries sustainably. They also appeal people to protect threatened species.

revised:

The article talks about a study, in which researchers suggest people to eat jellyfish instead of endangered species. Because it is good for managing our fisheries sustainably. They also appeal to people to protect endangered species.

original:

Yesterday my friends recommended me a TV series named The Queen’s Gambit, she told me the TV series just have 7 episodes. I decided to watch the TV series at evening, then I found it’s worth to watch ,I didn’t go to bed until 2am. The main character named Beth. She is raised by her mother, her mother is dead by an accident. Then she was sent to an orphanage, she found a senior man was playing chess in basement, she hope the man can play with her, but the man was refused. At night, she take a green medicine, she found chessboard was appeared on ceiling. The new day, she told the man some chess regulation that she got. After some try, the man decided to teach her play chess. Beth also work hard, she always take green medicine at night, then she play chess in her mind. The man found Beth is a genius, then she was invited to play chess to a high school, she can play chess with 20 boys at same time.

revised:

Yesterday my friends recommended me a TV series named The Queen’s Gambit. She told me the TV series only has 7 episodes. I decided to watch the TV series in the evening, then I found it worth watching. I stayed up until 2 am to watch it. The main character’s name is Beth. She was raised by her mother who died in an accident. Then she was sent to an orphanage. One day, she found a senior man playing chess in the basement, she hoped the man would play with her, but the man refused. At night, she took a green medicine, and she saw a chessboard appeared on the ceiling. The next day, she told the man some chess regulation that she learned. After putting some effort to convince him, the man decided to teach her how to play chess. Beth also worked hard, she always took green medicine at night to play chess in her mind. The man found out/realized Because Beth is a genius, she was invited to play chess in a high school, she can play chess with 20 boys at the same time.

Grammar

find someone doing something 看到某人正在做某事

find out someone is/was doing something 发现某人（过去）在做某事

worth doing something 值得做

pay attention to the usage of “the”/ “a” / “that”

make sure you add that in front of singular words

A of B = B的A

extinction of fish – 鱼类的灭绝

brink of extinction – 灭绝的边缘

extincted – 灭绝了的

Vocabulary

singular 单数

plural 复数

Write ten sentences using the past tense. Double-check the usage of “a”, “the”, “that”, in front of singular words. Also, make sure the tense is consistent in the whole paragraph.

Possible topic – a book you recently read, a TV show, your Christmas plan…etc.