VIP Class Notes (Lily) [S]

Pronunciation

ai: hail pail mail rail nail gain pain rain train drain Crain
ay: tray clay play railway Sunday UV ray jaywalk

ea: beam beach teach neat meat breach preach plead
ee: peepee feet fleet creed tweet seed weed needy
ey/y: lady money donkey key

ind (eye nd): blind kind findings rewind mind
ight: bright light frightened brightened fright night mighty sight

oa: roar moan toad loaf goat loan roast poach cloak

Vocabulary

1.trick= 小技巧
ex: There are some tricks in gambling.
ex: Can you teach me some tricks for learning piano?

2. balance= 余额
ex: I always use WeChat pay, so I don’t know my balance. 
ex: I never check my bank account balance, I don’t want to know.

3.jaywalk (verb)= 乱穿马路(不走斑马线)
ex: It’s very dangerous to jaywalk, you might get hit by a car.
ex: In Shanghai, many many many people jaywalk.

4.typo (noun)= 打错字
ex: It was a typo, sorry about that.

5. 100= one hundred
1,000= one thousand  (1千)
30,000= 30 thousand (3万)
330,000= 330 thousand (33万)
3,000,000= 3 million (3百万)
30,000,000= 30 millions (3 千万)
300,000,000= 300 millions (3亿)
3,000,000,000= 3 billion (30亿)

6. massage= 按摩
ex: massage in Thailand is super super cheap.

Speaking exercise


short-term goal
I want to save some money- ¥30,000, because I’m going to Thailand with my mother so I got a part-time job to make money. I cook by myself everyday, I think it can save some money. My mother never have a travel with me, so I want to go out with her.

Revised

I want to save some money- ¥30,000, because I’m going to Thailand with my mother so I got a part-time job to make money. I cook by myself everyday, I think it can save some money. My mother has never been on a trip never have a travel with me, so I want to go on a trip with her.