VIP Class Notes (Nemo)[S]

Homework

write a story about your best friend

写一个关于你最好朋友的故事

Vocabulary

opera-歌剧
E.g.: “Carmen” is my favorite opera.
《卡门》是我最喜爱的歌剧。
E.g.: I’ve never been a huge fan of opera.
我对歌剧一向不是很着迷。
E.g.: He goes to the opera (= to see an opera) whenever he can.
他一有机会就去看歌剧

stain (n): a dirty mark on something that is difficult to remove
污渍;污点
E.g.: a blood/grass stain
血污/草渍
E.g.: You can remove a red wine stain from a carpet by putting salt over it.
地毯上红酒的污渍可以通过撒些盐来清除。

dry-cleaner’s-a shop where clothes are cleaned with chemicals
干洗店

wig (n) :a covering of artificial hair worn on the head to hide a loss of hair or to cover your own hair
假发
E.g.: She was wearing a blonde wig.
她戴着金色的假发。
E.g.: In Britain, judges wear white wigs in court.
在英国,法官在法庭上戴白色的假发

theater (n): a building, room, or outside structure with rows of seats, each row usually higher than the one in front, from which people can watch a performance or other activity
剧院,戏院;电影院
E.g.: the Lyceum Theater
兰心剧院
E.g.: a lecture theater
报告厅

repair (v): to put something that is damaged, broken, or not working correctly, back into good condition or make it work again
修理;修补;修复;整修
E.g.: to repair (the surface of) the road
修路(面)
E.g.: to repair a roof after a storm
暴风雨后修理房顶

backstage -in the area behind the stage in a theatre, especially the rooms in which actors change their clothes or where equipment is kept
后台的,幕后的;在后台,在幕后
E.g.: We went backstage after the show to meet the actors.
演出结束后我们去后台跟演员们见面。
E.g.: backstage workers
幕后工作人员

Speaking exercise

MB want to see opera with his friend but he is late because his car is broken so he wanted to repair the car, but there’s some oil and his shirt got dirty, there was a stain. He walked to the theater  but he can’t go to theater because his shirt is dirty. so he go to the dry-cleaner’s and but the worker told him that his clothes will finish clean tomorrow. So he  took the woman’s dress and he put it on. The n he go to the theater but he forget the ticket. So he go to the backstage put on the wig and become the singer. Then he sing on the stage, but the dog take off his wig so the backstage workers take him to the backstage. THE END

MB wanted to see an opera with his friend but he was late because his car is broke down  so he wanted to repair the car, but there was some oil and his shirt got dirty, there was a stain. He walked to the theater  but he couldn’t enter to theater because his shirt was dirty. so he went to the dry-cleaner’s and but the worker told him that his clothes will be  clean tomorrow/be ready tomorrow. So he  took a woman’s dress and he put it on. Then he went to the theater but he forgot the ticket. So he went to the backstage put on a wig and he became the singer. Then he sang on the stage, at the end the dog took off his wig so the backstage workers could see that he wasn’t a real singer, so they took him to the backstage.