VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

jobmate – colleague / coworker / someone he works with

I’ve been living in Shanghai for 6 years.

I will have lived / will have been living in Shanghai for 7 years in 2020

graze – rub your skin too much so you get hurt
eg. I grazed my arm when i was on the slide with my sister.

Speaking exercise

He saw a gate and the gate is making very weird sounds, it is squeaking so he is a little bit unhappy and swing it back and forth and then he drove his car and went to a shop. He told the shop assistant to fetch him a bottle of oil. He agrees but then he sees a line of children and their parents lining up at the playtime jungle and he wants to go and play too. He wants to go inside the playtime jungle but the woman outside doesn’t allow him to so it makes him feel very sad and angry so he kneels down and go with a group of little girls and boys but the woman outside doesn’t see him. He stands up and says oh what a fantastic place. And he starts to play with the sea of balls, and a boy is inside too. He is a little bit confused but when he sees mr beans hand he thinks it’s a shark so calls for help. Mr Bean laughs but when he turns around he sees the woman. He is a little bit scared so runs away. He plays with the bouncy bed and swing ropes. The children are all very annoyed so their mum and dads find the woman and tells her that Mr Bean is behaving badly.

He sees the gate in front of his house and he swings it back and forth and it is making very weird sounds, it is squeaking so he thinks he should fix it. He drives his car and goes to a shop. He tells the shop assistant to get him a bottle of oil. The shop assistant agrees but then he sees a line of children and their parents lining up at the playtime jungle and he wants to go and play too. He wants to go inside the playtime jungle but the woman outside doesn’t allow him to so it upsets him / annoys him so he kneels down / hides with a group of little girls and boys / he pretends that he is a kid but the woman outside doesn’t see him. He stands up and says oh what a fantastic place. And he starts to play with the sea of balls / in the ball pit where there is a little boy. He is a little bit confused but when he sees mr beans hand he thinks it’s a shark so calls for help. Mr Bean laughs but when he turns around he sees the woman. He is a little bit scared so runs away. He plays with the bouncy bed and rope swings. The children are all very annoyed so their parents find the woman and tell her that Mr Bean is behaving badly.