VIP Class Notes (Kyle) (W)

to act – to do something

to swim – to move in the water

You can swim with flotation assistance.

to pretend – to ‘look like’ you are doing something.

The Cuttle Fish was pretending to be an underwater plant. It has the ability to camouflage.

My vision is not good when I don’t have my glasses.

vision – ability to see, look with your eyes,

can also be an idea ( vision = dream )  —-> Jessy and Judy shared a vision to start the Smart English program together.

Grammar

Movie theater – 电影院

ex. I went to watch Green Book on at the movie theater last weekend. 

 Nouns = People, Places or Things

Proper Nouns= People, Places or Things with NAMES in the sentence, capital letters

CAPITALIZATION = I AM TYPING A SENTENCE IN ALL CAPS !

lowercase = the letters in this sentence are all lowercase  —this is called Punctuation . ! , : ; )

The Proper nouns are I and Green Book .

Summarize the movie Green Book.

I watched  went to watch Green Book with my friend Peng last weekend. In the movie, the main character is Tony, a white man who is a security guard. Then, he meets Tang who is a famous black pianist. Tony doesn’t like black men at first. In order to make money, Because of money he has to travel with Tang to finish the piano shows on his concert tours around the United States. The green book is a list which records all of available hotels which provide services for black men. There were a lot of interesting things which happened on their way and these things changed Tony’s mind. At the end of the movie, Tony invited Tang to his house and they celebrated Christmas together.

In the movie = an short Introduction to the sentence

man = 1 person, male . m A N

men = multiple males.  m Eh N

In order to = for the purpose of

concert tours – a musical show, can be singing or playing instruments

Grammar

Basic English Sentence Structure 

Subject  + Verb + Object =  SVO  

ex. Tony invited Tang to his house. 

Options = 选项