VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Homework

do a diary writing about life and work and focus on past tense

Vocabulary

in current situationenvironment / circumstances 

scary (makes you afraid) / shocking (a powerful idea / sight) / horrible (makes you feel sick)

click bait – a title / thumbnail (picture) that is false to try to make you click on it

point – the main idea that you’re trying to communicate
eg. the point of the article is to teach us about fake news

youngers in China young people / the youth 

easy examplesimple example

this year, next year – the next 2 years

when you bought on the internet – when you shop online 

it will be work – it will work / will be effective 

near
eg. my office is near my house.
nearby = near there / near here
eg. my office is in jingan temple and my house is nearby.

dolphin show – a performance of dolphins jumping etc
eg. we went to a dolphin show in Okinawa

he was taken to the police station

Grammar

discuss with you aboutdiscuss sth with you 

this article is talk about – this article is about sth

the article talks about people and how they judge the news and whether it is fake or not

one of my colleagues

where are you going? where did you go?

what is the objective of the client is –  I want to know what the object of the client is 

noun = how many? which one?
verb = what time?

like to do
like doing 

nouns
Watching
dolphins is fun

Coffee is good

Pronunciation

allocate – al low kayt

aquarium – ackwair ree yum

platform – plat form

Speaking exercise

last year i took my boy to okinawa to watch the dolphin performance. in okinawa there is an ocean expo park and i just want to took my boy to watch the fish, watch the dolphin and they are the famous whale there but when we arrived the park my boy said he did not the fish. when we watched the dolphin performance we just wait in the chair. he said i want to go i don’t like watch the dolphin performance. after the performance he said it is interesting and the dolphin can jump too high and they can know the command very well. and i think okinawa is very beautiful island and we stay in the hotel which is nearby the park. the beach there is the most famous beach of okinawa. the water is green and blue like emerald but because we went there in the autumn maybe october the water was cold so we did not went to the sea to have a swim.

last year i took my boy to okinawa to watch the dolphin performance. in okinawa there is an ocean expo park and i just wanted to take my boy to watch the fish, and watch the dolphins and there are some kinds of famous whales and fish there but when we arrived at the park my boy said he did not like the fish. when we were watching the dolphin performance we just waited in the chairs. he said “i want to go i don’t like watching the dolphin performance”. after the performance he said it was interesting and the dolphins can jump very / so high and they can know the commands of the trainer very well. and i think okinawa is a very beautiful island and we stayed in the hotel which is near the park. the beach there is the most famous beach of / in okinawa. the water is green and blue like emerald but because we went there in autumn maybe October the water was cold so we didn’t go into the sea to have a swim.