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
….
11th