VIP Class Notes (Kyle) (S)

Which countries have you been to and why did you travel to these places? 

Dictation:

Last year in September, my friends told me they will travel before their wedding they asked me and my girlfriend and I if we want to go together ,so we joined them. And they start to make a plan Our friends made a plan for us and we just had the gained permission to enter the European country of Holland. country Europe (in the Shenzen zone) our visa is Holland. And in  November and we go to ww went to Amsterdam and we stayed there for 3 days. The first day we go to we went to/visited Van Gogh’s museum. Unfortunately, in Holland’s food there is a lot of salt, we couldn’t handle it, so we didn’t much like Holland’s food. One night we went to a North East Asia Restaurant and that food we think its more delicious much better and on the 2nd day we go to we visited some museums about smoking the stuff. Beside the small road we can smell it,  the smell it not didn’t make me comfortable, I don’t know try it what is the feeling is like when you try it. At night we go to we went to the Red Light Area District and we  were interested in the a lot of the windows. Beside the river there are two road and there is a beautiful girl in every window.  and we go to We went to see the a show, I think it was not very surprising, just normal things happened there.

my friends told me they will travel before their wedding…. =  my friends invited us to Europe. 

to invite (v): to offer someone to do something

for us: a gift, they did it and we didn’t

For vs. To

ex. We are going to Osaka two months from now, in the month of May. 

ex. We are traveling to Osaka for experiencing a the traditional Japanese culture and food…

for – the goal , or the purpose

What is Osaka famous for?  = 

 to gain = to get something. to have a new thing.

Grammar

we go to = We went to … this in past tense 

verb tenses:

*Used the white board to review different verb tenses in the past, present and future.

• We went to
• We have been to
• We go to
• We are going to
• We will go to
• We are going to go to

Finish the corrections and make a new Dictation with improved speech patterns.

Two months ago I have been to Japan  …