VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

cram school – school that kids go to during the holidays to study really hard
eg. Joey doesn’t go to cram school

traffic – the cars and buses etc on the road
eg. the traffic is really bad = the roads are busy

transportation – buses, trains, metro – the ability to go from A to B
eg. the transportation from puxi to pudong is quite good… very convenient

he likes it – he’s really into it

jealous – ji du
eg. his classmates are jealous of him

take a phone call = answer the phone
call me = da dian hua

mature – cheng shu

they lack sports / they have a lack of sports

time flies – goes really fast

nerd (loves studying) < > jock (loves sports)
eg. Joey and his friends are jocks

accent – kou ying

square meters – ping fang
eg. her house is 500 square meters

Grammar

have sports – do sports 

they don’t educated very good – they are not very well educated / they are not educated