VIP Class Notes (Nemo)[W/S]

Homework

Write about the time when you were really happy

Writing exercise

Yao Ming is unique because he is very tall he’s also the first Chinese NBA player and the best player in his team. All the Chinese people and basketball lovers know him so he has a lot of fans. At last, he hurt himself so he can’t basketball forever, but he became a basketball coach and he has a basketball team which is “Sharks” the team plays very well in China. And he’s the boss of this team, so he is very rich

Yao Ming is unique because he is very tall, he’s also the first Chinese NBA player and the best player in his team. All the Chinese people and basketball lovers know him so he has a lot of fans. At last, he hurt himself so he can’t play basketball anymore, but he became a basketball coach and he has a basketball team which called “The Sharks” the team plays very well in China/the team is ranked high in China. And he’s the boss of this team, so he is very rich.

Vocabulary

panic (n): a sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought and action
恐慌,惊慌
a state of panic
恐慌状态
E.g.: Panic spread through the crowd as the bullets started to fly.
子弹开始满天飞,人群惊慌起来。
E.g.: Carmel was in a panic about her exam.
卡梅尔很害怕考试。

panic (v): to suddenly feel so worried or frightened that you cannot think or behave calmly or reasonably
(使)恐慌,(使)惊慌失措
E.g.: Don’t panic! Everything will be okay.
别惊慌,一切都会没事的!

panic attack (n): a sudden period of severe anxiety in which your heart beats fast, you have trouble breathing, and you feel as if something very bad is going to happen
(一阵突如其来的)惊慌失措,惶恐

balcony (n): an area with a wall or bars around it that is joined to the outside wall of a building on an upper level
露台,阳台
E.g.: We had a drink on the hotel balcony.
我们在宾馆的阳台上喝酒。

iron (n): a piece of equipment for making clothes flat and smooth that has a handle and a flat base and is usually heated with electricity
熨斗
E.g.: a steam iron
蒸汽熨斗
E.g.: a travel iron
旅行用熨斗

handbrake (n): a device operated by hand that locks into position and prevents a vehicle from moving
手刹车,手制动器
E.g.: You’re supposed to put the handbrake on whenever you stop on a hill.
只要你在山坡上停车都应该把手刹车拉上。

Speaking exercise

There’s a woman and she wants to go to the beach but when he is on the car, she thief there’s a thief in her house and her grandma is out of the home and there’s a lot of water in her house. So her grandma wants to enter the house but she hurt her face, she fell on the iron and she died. And the thief go out of the house so the woman is very afraid and she go back to her home. But, all this was not true,  she was just imagining, but she forgot to put the handbrake on so her car crashed the lights and explode.

There’s a woman and she wants to go to the beach but once she is on the way to the beach, she thinks that there’s a thief in her house and her grandma is out of the home and there’s a lot of water in her house. So her grandma wants to enter the house but she hurt her face, she fell on the iron and she died. And the thief went out of the house so the woman is very afraid and she went back to her home. But, all this was not true,  she was just imagining it, but she forgot to put the handbrake on so her car crashed into the streetlights and exploded.

There was a woman and she wanted to go to the beach but once she was on the way to the beach, she started imagining that there’s a thief in her house and her grandma is out of the home and there’s a lot of water in her house. So her grandma wanted to enter the house but she hurt her face, she fell on the iron and she died. And the thief left the house so the woman was very afraid/nervous and she went back to her home. But, all this was not true,  she was just imagining it, but she forgot to put the handbrake on so her car crashed into the streetlights and exploded.