VIP Class Notes (Jacob) [W / S]

Homework

Write about your week with your daughter. (4-5 sentences)

Write a one sentence for each of the following words. – Vehicle, average, elaborate


Vocabulary

Vehicle – something you drive (car, truck, van)

Elaborate – to give more detail and explanation about something
eg. I had an awful day……do you care you elaborate?

Jet lag – a difficulty sleeping at normal times after traveling long distances

Lag – fall behind in movement or actions; a time delay between when one action happens and the resulting action

Income/Earnings gap – the space between the lowest and highest earners.

Sciences – Biology, Chemistry, Math, and Physics

Double Major – studying two things at university

Liberal learning – learning how to learn, not how to do something

Technical college – learning a technical skill (how to do a specific job) computers, plumbing, electrician

Average – the normal or middle score of everyone/everything
eg. In Shanghai the average  age is 30
eg. What is the average temperature in Shanghai
eg. What is your grade average in school?
eg. The average  income in Shanghai is …

GPA – Grade Point Average

Life Expectancy – how long a person can expect to live
eg. In Shanghai, the average life expectancy  is 83.


Grammar

Past tense – I find found

Shopping is tired tiring 

Two years later – in two years


Writing exercise

Original

My daughter has been come back from school for three days, also my husband and I were extremely happy first. But with the passing We found that our everyday life were broken, we need to change some schedule to take care of her. If you have been used to something as usual, and one day you had to do other things which is uncomfortable for it. At the same time she says that her social life doesn’t in Shanghai now and she feel like a visiter more. Because she couldn’t find friends who has the same timetable with her, as there are the different with her school in China. She told me that she is getting more and more used to enjoy western food and have accepted different thinking.

Edited 

My daughter has been come back from school for three days. also My husband and I were extremely happy at first, but with the passing time we found that our everyday life was broken. We need to change some our schedule to take care of her. If you have been become used to something as usual, and one day you had to do other things which is uncomfortable for it its difficult to change. At the same time she says that her social life doesn’t in isn’t in Shanghai now and she feels like a visitor more. Because she couldn’t find friends who have the same timetable with her, as there are is the a difference with her schools in China. She told me that she is getting more and more used to enjoying western food and has accepted a different thinking view.


Speaking exercise

Original 

I will go out, and need to go to some place. I need to think some interesting things to make her not feel not so boring. I need to go with her some place and carry her to some place.

Student Edits

I need to think find some interesting things to make her not feel not so bored. I need to go with her some place and carry take her to some places.