VIP Class Notes (Jesse)
Grammar
teacher will let him – the teacher will let him
Vocabulary
college entrance exam – gao kao
they did well in the exam / their exam scores were very high
her score was not very good – she didn’t do very well at school / she wasn’t a very good student
they got a rude awakening / “welcome to the real world”
“yeah welcome to my world” = you now have the same situation that I’ve had for a long time
Order of adjectives
- Quantity or number
- Quality or opinion
- Size
- Age
- Shape
- Color
- Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
- Purpose or qualifier
classmate – someone I went to school with / someone from my class
colleague – someone I work with / worked with / used to work with
graduate – finished college in ____ / left university in ___ / my last year of university was ____
centimeter – cent = 100. So centimeter is 1/100 of a meter
script – written form of a story
scribe – sb who writes (old word)
scripture – the written teachings of the bible
transcribe – to write what someone says word for word
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