VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Homework

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

Write a diary about your recent life.

Needs more review

immigrate – it is great to immigrate!

similar = a little same
same = yi yang
eg. red and pink are similar.
eg2. Coffee and tea are the same price

familiar = like family / comfortable / shu xi de

woke – past of “wake”

Speaking exercise

i plan to maccau next month. i went to the japan last year at November, Tokyo, and it’s a small centre, a few people. It’s quiet and very good view, better than Shanghai, I mean the view. The city is clean and I went to the disney, there are a few people but the people all very very very happy. They wear clothes like a disney / the dress like disney. I went to the museum, a small museum, they show some japanese thing …

i plan to go to maccau next month. i went to the japan last year in November, and I went to the city (of) Tokyo, and it’s really packed / things are really smallthere are so many people. It’s quiet and the scenery is really lovely, I think it is better than Shanghai because it is clean. I went to Disneyland, there are many people but the people looks / are all very very very happy. They wear clothes like a disney characters / they dress like disney characters. I went to the museum, and it was a small museum (which was) beside a park and they showed some japanese things.

Vocabulary

licence – a card / document that lets you do sth important
eg. I have a drivers licence

random – any thing / no reason / no plan
eg. let me think of a random number, and you need to guess.

document(s) / file(s)

can’t open my eyes

take off < > landing – start < > end of a flight
eg. when the plane takes off I’m really excited

lady-like – like a lady
eg. that dress is very ladylike

character – jue se

look happy – adjective
look like you are happy / look like my friend – situation / thing

person = 1
persons = each 1
people = 2 +
peoples = a type of people. eg. asian / african / western…

I know = I already knew that
I understand / I see / I know what you mean / understood / I get it / got it = Now I know that

conjunction – lian ci (and / but / so / because / when / if)
preposition – jie ci (for / to / with / from / as)

view – like a picture from 1 point
scenery – the look of the environment

Grammar

Today I am hot and a little tired
In Tokyo, there are so many people

LEAST I have few friends = I don’t have many friends = negative
I have a few friends = I have a little less than some friends = positive
I have some friends = positive
I have quite a few friends = more than some
I have a lot of friends / I have many friends
MOST I have so many friends

at / on / in
at = time
on = day
in = month / year / period

I bought a hot chocolate from the cafe downstairs and I think it is delicious because it has milk / they added milk.

i’ve done it – already happened
i did it – past time