VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Homework

Write about some time you had a problem and hurt yourself. What happened? How did you feel?

Remember: past tense 过去式 and use and, but, so, because, if to make longer sentences.

Vocabulary

hurt / pain / sore – teng
eg. My tooth hurts (v)
eg2. I have pain in my tooth (n)
eg3. My tooth is sore (adj)

let me think – rang wo xiang yi xiang

can’t remember / forgot 
eg. I forgot how to say “kai” in English / I can’t remember how to say “kai” in English

Grammar

I am here because I want to study English

I come here / I go there / I go home / I come home – no “to” because these are SPECIAL places!
I go to school / I go to a restaurant / I come to China – add “to”

Today is Sunday.
Tomorrow will be Monday
Tomorrow will not be Tuesday

Speaking exercise

bold are words I taught as we spoke and we corrected as we went. 

I finished class and I went home then I ate cookies and read books because books are very fun. I went to bed at 9 o’clock.

In the morning I got up at half past 8 and I ate breakfast at a quarter to 9 because I was hungry. Then I went to swimming at half past 9. I finished swimming at 11:30 and then I ate lunch because I was hungry and I came here because I want to study English.


bold are words I taught as we spoke

original

Mr Bean is sitting on the sofa, and watching TV. He feels scared because this TV show is very scary. He is eating popcorn and his tooth is very pain because his tooth has a problem. He is touching his tooth in the restroom, and it is nighttime. Then, Mr Bean goes to the kitchen and mix the salt and water because he think drink salty water his tooth doesn’t very pain, but he is spit the salty water because he feel the salty water is very salty. He open the fridge and hit the ice use the fork but the fork is bad.

corrected

Mr Bean is sitting on the sofa, and watching TV. He feels scared because this TV show is very scary. He is eating popcorn and his tooth is very sore because his tooth has a problem. He is touching his tooth in the restroom, and it is nighttime. Then, Mr Bean goes to the kitchen and mixes the salt and water because he thinks if he drinks salty water, his tooth will not be very sore, but he spits the salty water out because he feels the salty water is very / too salty. He opens the fridge and hits the ice using / with the fork but the fork breaks / is broken.