VIP Class Notes (Li)

Phrasal verbs

Vocabulary

run after/go after – chase/try to catch someone or something

tidy up your toys – put them neatly somewhere

put back – put something back to its original place

blow out the candles – get rid of fire

blow up – to go BOOM

run into – to meet someone by chance outside

eg. You ran into me the other day at the subway station.

eg. I rarely run into my friends outside of school.

turn up/down – make it louder/quieter

eg. Turn up the volume, it’s too quiet.

eg. Please turn the volume down.

sleep in late – to not get up early

eg. Aiai likes to sleep in late during the summer holidays.

put away rubbish/toys/food

tie up/do up your shoelaces

language: like English, Chinese, French etc.

eg. What languages do you speak?

eg. I can speak English, Chinese and French.

Grammar

phrasal verbs 

verb + preposition or adverb

ex. run away/wake up/put on

get up vs. wake up 

get up – you leave the bed in the morning

eg. I got up at 10 today to have breakfast.

wake up – you’re not sleeping anymore

eg. I wake up at 7 AM every day.

at – for time

at 10 AM/10 o’clock/2: 30/half past two

Before today I’m so hungry and my mum go to buy vegetables and meat for me. My mum cooked for me, but she’s not coming yet.

Teacher Li wake up at 1 o’clock.

I have class on 10. It’s a sandwich class.  I have Chinese class.

Revised: 

Yesterday, I was so hungry and my mum went to buy some vegetables and meat for me. My mum cooked hasn’t cooked yet, but she’s going to do it today. 

Teacher Li wakes up at 1 o’clock.

I had a class at 10. I had a Chinese/language class.