VIP Class Notes (Nemo)[S]

Homework

Write a short story about your cousin’s birthday

Vocabulary

shade (n):slight darkness caused by something blocking the direct light from the sun
阴处;阴凉处
E.g.: The sun was hot, and there were no trees to offer us shade.
太阳火辣辣的,没有树给我们遮阳。
E.g.: The children played in/under the shade of a large beach umbrella.
孩子们在一把巨大的沙滩遮阳伞下的阴凉处玩耍。

sunshade (n):an object similar to an umbrella that you carry to protect yourself from light from the sun遮阳伞,太阳伞

cooler (n):a container like a box with a lid, used for keeping food and drinks cool
冷藏箱
E.g.: We brought a cooler full of Cola with us.
我们带了满满一冷藏箱的可乐。

timer/time switch (n)a device on a machine that causes the machine to start or stop working at a particular point in the day
计时开关,定时开关

ignore (v):to intentionally not listen or give attention to
不理睬,忽视
E.g.: She can be really annoying but I try to ignore her.
她有时会特别烦人,不过我尽量不去理会她。

explode (v):to break up into pieces violently, or to cause something to do this
(使)爆炸
E.g.: A bomb exploded at one of the capital’s busiest railway stations this morning.
今天上午一枚炸弹在首都最繁忙的一个火车站爆炸。
E.g.: He was driving so fast that his car tyre exploded.
他车开得太快导致爆胎。

tick (v):to make a quiet, short, regularly repeated sound like that made by a clock:
E.g. :That clock ticks too loudly.

ticking bomb-定时炸弹

烦人-annoying person

annoying (adj)making you feel annoyed
讨厌的;恼人的
E.g. :It’s really annoying when a train is late and there’s no explanation.
火车误点而又不作任何解释,这很令人恼火。
E.g. :He’s got a really annoying laugh.
他的笑声真让人烦。

工具-tool (n)-a piece of equipment that you use with your hands to make or repair something
E.g. :A hammer is a simple tool.
E.g. :I always keep a set of tools in the back of my car.
set of tools一套工具

wire (n):(a piece of) thin metal thread with a layer of plastic around it, used for carrying electric current
电线;导线
E.g.: Someone had cut the phone wires.
有人切断了电话线。
E.g.: Don’t touch those wires whatever you do.
无论如何都别碰那些导线。

Speaking exercise

It was a hot sunny day, Mr Bean saw grandma sitting under the sunshade in in her garden. He has a chair he want to sit next to her but grandma said that Mr Bean is very annoying and Mr Bean go to his home and make a drawing of his own sunshade. He wanted to make it, and he have many many tools.

So he started digging and digging but he dig a hard thing and it’s a bomb. Grandma’s cat is jumping on the bomb and it has clock ticking. He try to tell to grandma but she ignored him and he go to the home to have many many different protection and other tools. He tries to turn off the ticking bomb and he cut the red wire, and the time is fast, and he take his grandmother and a friend to see the bomb and they go into the home and they hide under a table. And Mr Bean saw his teddy bear sitting next to the bomb, so he took him and he went back behind the table. The bomb exploded but have water and he make a swimming pool, everyone is happy and enjoying the nice weather

It was a hot sunny day, Mr Bean saw grandma sitting under the sunshade in her garden. He took a chair because he wanted to sit next to her but grandma said that Mr Bean is very annoying and Mr Bean went to his home and he made a drawing of his own sunshade. He wanted to make it, and he took many many tools.
So he started digging and digging but he hit a hard thing and it was a bomb. Grandma’s cat started jumping on the bomb and its has clock started ticking. He tried to tell to grandma but she ignored him and he went into the home to take many many different protection things and other tools. He tried to turn off the ticking bomb and he cut the red wire, and the time is fast the ticking became faster, and he took his grandmother and a friend to see the bomb and they went into the home and they hid under a table. And Mr Bean saw his teddy bear sitting next to the bomb, so he took him and he went back behind the table. The bomb exploded and the hole got filled with have water so he made a swimming pool, everyone was happy and enjoying the nice weather