VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Homework

Write about your time learning swimming, and some times that you went swimming. Do you think swimming is an important skill?

remember tense for every verb.

Writing exercise

Q1. How many patients have your site randomized since last month?

Answer:we searched the database but found few patient who may meet our standard.

Q2. Have you tried other methods to find more patients?

Answer:The investigator will look for patient at clinic.

Last weekend, I went to tonglu city for rafting with my friends. It tooks more than four hours to go there by car. This was an unforgetable journey first becasue we could sing songs when we drove on the road even though most of us didn’t sing well. The other thing was that our car hit another car when changing the line in the high-speed road. The driver friend seemed very calm to manage the transportation accident. Firstly, she took the pictures of the car from many sides to leave proof pictures for compensation of insurance company. Then, she called the policeman. We all got off the car and waited the policeman stayed at the side of the road. Because of the accient, the traffic became more and more crowed, we were advised by the poliman to leave the accident site to another place. The third intresting thing of this journey is the rafting which is like a boat in a river. The rafting place is located at the middle part of a hill which is high for about 2 hundred meters. We got prepared at the bottum of the hill and were driven to the rafting place first. Two of us were in a boat. The pathway had many slpoes, curves but sometimes…..

Q1. How many patients have your site randomized since last month?

Answer:we searched the database but found few patients who may meet our standards.

Q2. Have you tried other methods to find more patients?

Answer:The investigator will look for patients at clinics. / will refer patients from clinics

Last weekend, I went to tonglu city for rafting / to go rafting with my friends. It took more than four hours to go / get there by car. This was an unforgettable journey, first because we could sing songs when we were driving on the road even though most of us don’t sing well. The other thing was that our car hit another car when changing lanes on the high-speed road / on the highway / the other thing was when we were driving on a highway, we … The driver friend seemed very calm to manage the accident / crash. Firstly, she took the pictures of the car from many sides to leave proof for compensation from the insurance company. Then, she called the policeman. We all got out of the car and waited for the policeman and stayed on the / by standing on the side of the road. Because of the accident, the traffic became worse and worse, and we were advised by the policeman to leave the accident site to go to another place. The third interesting thing of this journey was the rafting which is like a boat on a river. The rafting place is located at the middle part of a hill which is about 2 hundred meters high. We first got prepared at the bottom of the hill and then were driven to the rafting place and there were 2 people in each boat / 2 to a boat. The pathway had many slopes, curves but sometimes…..

Vocabulary

I’m a big coffee drinker – I love it
It’s really big during summer – popular

transport – the way we use to move things / ourselves
eg. public transport in Shanghai is really convenient because the metro and buses are very organised and cheap
traffic – how many cars / buses / bikes are on the road
eg. omg there’s so much traffic in the morning in Shanghai! It will take me a long time to get to work

front of the car / bonnet
back
of the car / boot / trunk 

she didn’t know how long the front of her car was, and she thought there was space / room but it was not enough so she hit the car in front of us. = she rear-ended the car in front

paddle / oar – a long stick that is used with boats

kayak – boat with 1 / 2 people and you have a double-sided paddle

Grammar

When I was having class, Zoe brought me some water.