VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Vocabulary

the year before last < > the year after next 

I was working at the company / I quit from the company – I was working / I quit 

curious – want to know more

ambitious – want to improve yourself and learn more

i don’t like that point of him – i don’t like that part of his personality 

I don’t get involved / I don’t suggest her to do anything

I am bored / I am happy / I am worried 

I will make him stay = I will stop him from going

Grammar

take care of my family

a long time before – a long time ago 

I had a dinner with my family to celebrate my father’s birthday last night. We haven’t been gathering to celebrate my father’s birthday for a long time. Because he was living in Shenyang alone. He couldn’t standing the high temperature in shanghai’s summer, so for a couple of years he usually come back to shanghai during the winter.While the summer is coming , he will go back to our hometown. When we were looking at that he couldn’t stoping sweaty and couldn’t leave the towel, and it was useless for us to refuse him to do what he was go away from the high temperature. Summer is near this year and we don’t want him to go back, Because we found that he obviously is getting to older than last year and movement was becoming slowly too.We are worry about him living alone, and we are trying to persuade him to stay in shanghai during this summer.However if this summer is going to like last summer which was extremely hot, we don’t think he can bear it . So we are hoping that this summer will not too hot to drive my farther away from Shanghai.

I had a dinner with my family to celebrate my father’s birthday last night. We haven’t been gathering to celebrate my father’s birthday for a long time. Because he was living in Shenyang alone. He couldn’t stand the high temperature in shanghai’s summer, so for a couple of years he usually came back to shanghai during the winter. When summer is coming , he will go back to our hometown. When we were looking at him sweating and couldn’t leave the towel / when we noticed that he couldn’t stop sweating and couldn’t put the towel down, it was useless for us to make him stay in Shanghai during Summer. Summer is near this year and we don’t want him to go back, Because we found that he obviously is getting older than last year and movement is becoming slower too. We are worried about him living alone, and we are trying to persuade him to stay in shanghai during this summer. However if this summer is going to be like last summer which was extremely hot, we don’t think he can bear it. So we are hoping that this summer will not be too hot to drive my father away from Shanghai.