VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]
Homework
Self introduction
Today we focused on:
Correcting writing and discussed a lot of grammar, including past tense
Writing exercise
It will be November 11 after several days and it is a special day in China like Black Friday in foreign. People can buy anything they want with great discounts at taobao.com. It is a horrible festival that we called “Double 11” since There are four one which means single day in China. Everyone will be eager to exchange the currency in their hands for real thing online. They will choose 商品加入购物车in advance and pay the bill at 12 o’clock in the evening. The web always not working because too many people pay the money at the same time. Anyway 人们很少去商场买东西了自从淘宝的出现
It will be November 11th after / in several days and it is a special day in China like Black Friday in foreign countries / overseas. People can buy anything they want with / at great discounts at / on taobao.com. It is a really big / massive / huge festival that we called “Double 11” since There are four ones which means singles day in China. Everyone will be eager to exchange the currency / swap the money in their hands for real things online. They will fill up their shopping carts in advance and pay the bill at 12 o’clock in the evening / right at 12AM / right at midnight. The website is always not working / The website always stops working because too many people pay the bill / pay / are paying / are trying to pay at the same time. Anyway people don’t go shopping so much since taobao started.
Vocabulary
Ma Yun founded taobao in 2010
to found a company = start the company
ketchup / tomato sauce
Tom – name
Tom’s cheeks are red
Pot
potatoes grow in pots
12PM = midday = lunch time
12AM = midnight = sleep time
full
fill up – make it full
eg. the man filled up the bottle with water
eagerly / eager
eg. I eagerly wait for double 11 = I’m excited about it
horrible – really really bad
horror
terrible – really really bad
terror
foreign – adj
I am a foreign teacher
Chinese is foreign to me
foreign country / abroad / overseas
eg. I want to go overseas soon
economy – the money system in a country
economics – the study of money systems
economic (adj)
eg. China has had economic success in the last 20 years. The economy has grown a lot recently.
Grammar
I do – no time / sometimes / often
I did – specific time – past
I have done – now already done / experience
I had done – past already done / 2 times in the past
I have been doing – now done but still doing / started in the past, still going
I had been doing – from a time in the past still going
I have a lot of money
I have not much money – I don’t have much money
the website is always not working – the website never works
start to do = start doing
stop to do – I stopped what I was doing so I could do sth else
stop doing – stopped what I was doing
see
saw
seen
go
went
been / gone
drink
drank
drunk
stopped
ate
get
got
gotten
do
did
done
I am walking
at address / phone number / email address
first
second
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11th
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