VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Next Class Focus

Do IELTS speaking and focus on adding details to answers – long answers at least 4-5 sentences. Use conjunctions and which!!

Today we focused on:

IELTS speaking done:

Do you (or, did you) have a favourite teacher?
Do you think it’s important for students to like their teachers?

Vocabulary

I miss it so much – I miss it like crazy 

there are many people they who come from the countryside

Blind date is more like an interview since / because / and by that I mean it’s very strange to talk about your marriage / life / personal things with a stranger which is very uncomfortable. Some people may like it, because / as / since they might meet their true love, but the possibility is low. I will try it when I reach 35 years old, or if the man is very rich.

due to the fact that
I like the fact that this cup is white.

I came back = I arrived back / I left to come back
eg. I will leave China on Saturday night and arrive in Australia on Sunday morning.
eg2. Mum I’ll come back on Saturday / Mum I’ll come back on Sunday
I was coming back = on the way
eg. When I was coming back to SH by train, I met a girl…

Grammar

at hospital – visiting / seeing a dr
in hospital – staying there / surgery

in hospital / in school / in college = in the period of time that you’re doing sth specific like studying, having surgery, recovering…

Speaking exercise

When I went back home I spent every day at my mother’s working place which is far away from her hospital. she was supposed to stay at the hospital for 7 days but she came back home at the 4 day ____ she’s worried about her job. I cooked for her the first day but she doesn’t like it so after that she cooked for me every day which makes me very enjoy because I miss her food. Her work is very busy every day and after finishing work I was very tired. They came at about 1 PM and they go at about 6 or 7 PM. When I came back to SH and I met a girl who is a university student on my train back to SH and we talk a lot. She talked about her college life and I talked about my life in SH and she’s really good at talking. The most she talked about is her college life and she doesn’t like it. The major she doesn’t like it and student she doesn’t like it.

When I went back home I spent every day at my mother’s working place / place of work / shop which is far away from her hospital. She was supposed to stay at the / in hospital for 7 days but she came back home on the 4th day because she was worried about her job. I cooked for her on the first day but she didn’t like it so after that she cooked for me / she did the cooking every day which I enjoyed a lot / which made me really happy / feel really warm because I miss her food. Her work is very busy every day and after finishing work I was very tired. They come at about 1 PM and they go at about 6 or 7 PM. When I was coming back / On my way back / On the train back to SH and I met a girl who is / was a university student and we talked a lot. She talked about her college life and I talked about my life in SH and she’s really good at talking / she’s a talker (really good talker). The most she talked about / the thing she talked about most was her college life and the fact that she doesn’t like it. She doesn’t like  / She’s not into / interested in the major she studies and the other students too.