VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Focused on making longer sentences + adding detail when answering questions

i got up at 8 o’clock because I play mobile phone last night but my class will begin at 8:30 so I have no time to eat my breakfast. Also, I’m very tired at class and this morning I have my economic class and business class and also EAP. After class it’s about 12 and I order food in my phone, you know mei tuan, and I have to get to study my economic… I had suan cai fish for lunch but it’s not very good just because the fish is not fresh – it taste a little hard.

i got up at 8 o’clock because I played some game on my mobile phone / I played some mobile phone games last night but my class would begin / began at 8:30 so I had no time to eat my / to have breakfast. Also, I was very tired in class and this morning I took / had economic class and business class and also EAP. After class it was about 12 and I ordered food on my phone, you know mei tuan, and I have to go to study my economic… I had Chinese sauerkraut fish for lunch but it was not very good just because the fish was not fresh – it tasted a little hard / it was a little hard.

Vocabulary

open the door < > close the door
turn on < > turn off – the action of pressing a button, turning a switch

play – sport / games
play with sth – use it to play

I have a fat friend – I have a friend who is fat.
I have a computer which is black.
I shopped for a computer for 1 hour – I bought a computer which took 1 hour.

How are you? / How’s it going? / How’re you doing? 

5 – Great / really good / very good 
4 – Pretty good / Good 
3 – Good / Not bad 
2 – Fine / Just OK
1 – Not great / not very good

Thanks / Thank you 

And you? / What about you? / How about you? 

steak – niu pai

9 – well done 
7 – medium – well done 
5 – medium 
medium rare
3 – rare = undercooked
eg. I’d like mine medium well done please

raw – sheng de

after 2 years – maybe 2 years from now, maybe more
in 2 years / 2 years later – within 2 years, not later than 24 months from now.

Grammar

on my phone
on tv
on the radio
on the internet
on the computer
online 

in my phone – inside it, you need to open it