VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W / S]

Write about your housemates. Use present tense.

Focused on pronunciation during conversation – tried to stop adding sounds to the ends of words.

Recently I have watched some movies,Which include comedies, actions,science fiction,animation and horror movies. All those films was my favorite types. And the scenes effects is great because of the wonderful making technique. Only the horror films made me a little sacred in the night.

Recently I have watched some movies, which include comedies, action movies, science fiction movies, animated movies and horror movies. All those films are my favorite types and the special effects are great because of the wonderful film-making technique / way they were made / technology. Only the horror films made me a little sacred in the night / at night.

my mother don’t like me to learn cooking because she doesn’t want me to cook. my mother and my brother cooked when I was young. My mother cooking for the breakfast and my brother cooking for dinner. In the breakfast we always have some soup and vegetables because in the morning we don’t need too much food so the breakfast is simple. The reason my mother cooked breakfast is that we stay in bed all the time and my mother get up early. In the evening my brother has time to cook and his cooking technique is great. I like the eggplant dishes that he cooked.

my mother don’t like me to learn cooking because she doesn’t want me to cook. my mother and my brother cooked when I was young. My mother cooks for breakfast and my brother cooks for dinner. At breakfast we always have some soup and vegetables because in the morning we don’t need too much food so the breakfast is simple. The reason my mother cooks breakfast is that we stay in bed all the time and my mother gets up early. In the evening my brother has time to cook and his cooking technique is great. I like the eggplant dishes that he cooks.

Vocabulary

they don’t want to go out – leave / go away / go to another place 

typo – da cuo le (when you’re typing words)
eg. I made a typo, I wrote “Hellio” instead of “Hello”

spend time with – pei ban

get a dog / have a dog 

take a dog for a walk

I live myself – I live alone / by myself 

flatmate (apartment) / housemate (house / apartment) / roommate (share a room)

standards – yao qiu (normal)
eg. I have high standards for coffee

friendly / nice = they treat others in a positive way

active = do lots of things in their life / do lots of exercise

female < > male
eg. that is my female housemate

have fun – do fun things
play – game / kids / sport
go out – dinner / lunch / drinks / KTV / date
spend time – pei ban
eg. we always have fun together / we always go out together

Grammar

I almost never talk to him

verb – what time? (me / you / we / they / he / she / it / name) 

in the morning – 12:00 AM – 11:59 AM

at noon – 12:00 PM

in the afternoon – 12:01 – 5:00 PM

in the evening – 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM

at midnight – 12:00 AM

during the day – long time, you live in this period
at night – the point that the sun is gone

Pronunciation

child – eye

iseh – is

thinkeh – think 

kind – eye

What kind? – soft ends of words 

Wha tis that? – connected 

1 – middle AEIOU is the most important
2 – the end of the words are soft OR connected to the next word
3 – AEIOU – open mouth sounds
4 – consonants – closed mouth sounds
5 – phonetics (ying biao) are the only sounds in English