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 about the Corona Virus situation.

Next Class Focus

finish this. (underlined words are pronunciation problems)

until the time went very fast / time flew and 4 years had passed, and during my 5th year in primary school I moved to / i was transferred to another primary school in the town, and the later I could not contact that girl. And many years later, I found she has got married with another people in the city, so it is a bit regretted I could not tell her my feeling about her.

Vocabulary

tourism industry

work from home – stay home to work, don’t go to the office

on my wechat / my wechat moments – peng you quan

most of Chinese – most Chinese / most of the Chinese people in Shanghai / most of my Chinese students

less rent because of the corona virus

influenced / affected / impacted 
eg. my friends influence me so I sometimes drink too much. The drinking affects my mood and really impacts on my health.

quarantine (v) – ge li
eg. wu han is under quarantined / the people of wuhan are quarantined / the people who live there have been quarantined

Corona Virus / COVID-19 – xing guan bing du

contagious (adj) – a sickness that you can give to others  (contact)
eg. a headache is not contagious but the flu is very contagious

symptom 
eg. the symptoms include coughing, fever, and breathing difficulties

outbreak / to break out = to suddenly appear and become a problem (diseases / war / fighting)

collateral – assets used as fallback
eg. the house and car is held as collateral against the loan (as a fallback)

I have a crush on her = I secretly like her

I’m a failure = I fail at everything / I’m poor… / I’m a loser

Speaking exercise

i was born in a small village in js province maybe several hundreds people there and in my primary school, I studied in a village school there was just 16 students in the class and I can get the good performance about my study but I cannot get the number 1, I am the number 2, always number 2. Number 1 is a beautiful girl in the village, and i always want to surpass her but it was always failure. I wanted her to be my girlfriend but I was lack of enough confidence to express my idea. and until the time went very fast and 4 years had passed, and during my 5th year in primary school I moved to / i was transferred to another primary school in the town, and the later I could not contact that girl. And many years later, I found she has got married with another people in the city, so it is a bit regretted I could not tell her my feeling about her.

i was born in a small village in js province maybe there were several hundred / were very few people there and in my primary school, I studied in a village school and there were just 16 students in the class and I could get the good performance about my study / I was a good student / I was a top student but I couldn’t get the number 1 (position) / I could never be the best in the class / the top student, I was always the number 2 / always in the top 2. Number 1 was a beautiful girl in the village, and i always wanted to surpass / beat her but it never worked / I was never successful / I always failed. I wanted her to be my girlfriend but I was lack of enough / I didn’t have enough confidence (n) / I wasn’t confident (adj) enough / I didn’t dare (v) / I was too afraid (adj) to express my idea. and until the time went very fast / time flew and 4 years had passed, and during my 5th year in primary school I moved to / i was transferred to another primary school in the town, and the later I could not contact that girl. And many years later, I found she has got married with another people in the city, so it is a bit regretted I could not tell her my feeling about her.Â