VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Focused on not adding sounds to her pronunciation during conversation. eg. Likar instead of like.

Vocabulary

How are you? / How’s it going / How have you been? / How are you doing?

5 – great / very good
4 – pretty good / good 
3 – not bad / good 
2 – fine / just OK
1 – not great / not very good

and you? / what about you? / how about you? 

the process spends lots of time – the process takes a lot of time 

I have many students from countries such as China, Japan…
I have a few hobbies such as playing guitar, painting….
I do many things every day for example, I go to …. and I do this….

it goes off – to become bad / can’t use it

start work < > finish work (I am off work) – the times every day that you should do these things
start my work < > finish my work – kai shi < > zuo wan
start working < > finish working – kai shi < > jie shu
get to work < > leave work – arrive < > go away from work

feminine – like a female
masculine – like a male

what are they like?
what do they like

cooker – a machine that cooks
chef / cook – a person who cooks

she’s friendly / she’s a talker / she’s social 

he has a good figure / body 

yes – yeah / yep / yup / that’s right
no – nah / nup / nope 

I have two housemates in my home,Jing is my female housemate who is friendly and passionate about life.we always spend time with each other,such as we play badminton and table tennis during the weekend,study together in the evening, sometimes we go out for a coffee or shopping at a mall. The other flatmate is a shy boy, he never leave his room unless cook for lunch. This is strange.

I have two housemates in my home. Jing is my female housemate who / and is friendly and passionate about life. We always spend time with each other, for example we play badminton and table tennis during the weekend, study together in the evening, and sometimes we go out for a coffee or go shopping at a mall. The other flatmate is a shy boy, who / and he never leaves his room unless he cooks lunch which I think is strange.

Grammar

My friend she is fat.

I do it very little – I don’t do it very often / much 

I like here – I like it here 
here is good – it is good here