VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Homework

Choose a topic to write and focus on longer sentences using conjunctions + would / past tense.

Vocabulary

a adult with a job

buy – bought
teach – taught

boot / trunk – hou bei xiang
eg. Please open the trunk for me!

popular / hot
eg. it’s a really hot item (formal)
eg2. it’s a really popular car (casual)

accompany – pei ban
eg. dogs love to accompany us all the time

paws – hands of animals

claws – nails of animals

emoji – biao qing bao

Grammar

interested in you

NOW 

You are a boy, what will you do = real, fact.
You are rich, you can buy a house = real, fact.

If you were a boy, what would you do? = not real – past tense
If you were rich, what would you buy? = not real – past tense

PAST

Yesterday it rained, so you didn’t go out = real, fact

If it hadn’t rained, would you have gone out? = not real – past tense


FUTURE

It will rain tomorrow, which is bad
If it rains tomorrow, how would you feel? = not real – half past / normal

food = sth you can eat
foods = multiple / more than 1 type of food

countable – easily / commonly able to separate
eg. banana
uncountable – not easy / common to separate
eg. fruit

Writing exercise

I think have a pet pig will be a good choices. Because they can eat any foods. Otherwise they are tiny and furry. They won’t hurt people. Besides, compare dogs, they wouldn’t make noises.
Nowadays, a lots of people have a pet pig In Shanghai. You can keep the pet pig in an apartment if landlord allow.

I think having a pet pig would be a good choice, because they can eat any food. Otherwise they are tiny and furry and won’t hurt people. Besides, compared to dogs, they don’t make noises.
Nowadays, lots / a lot of people have a pet pig in Shanghai. You can keep the pet pig in an apartment if your landlord allows it.