VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)

Grammar

This is the photo taken by the photographer / This photo was taken by a photographer / A photographer took this photo.

This is the photographer took this pic for me / A photographer took this picture for me.

This is the photographer that took the picture for me.

Reviewed last week’s vocabulary

Pronunciation

Belize – BUH-LEEZE

Guatemala – GWOT-UH-MA-LUH

Honduras – HON-DER-REZ

El Salvador – EL SAL-VUH-DOOR

Nicaragua – NICK-UH-RAH-GRUH

Panama – PAN-UH-MUH

Costa Rica

Dominica

St. Lucia – Saint Lucia

Barbados

Trinidad and Tobago

Columbia – CUH-LUM-BEE-YA

Venezuela – VEN-EH-ZWALE-UH

Suriname – SIR-RUH-NOM-AY

Atacama – A-TUH-CAH-MUH

Uruguay – YOUR-UH-GWIE

Vocabulary

to be hands on – to be actively involved in

e.g. My mom had a very hands on approach with my education growing up.

e.g. My mom had a very hands off approach when it came to my free time.

leafy adj – leaf noun

parrot – 鹦鹉

parakeet – 长尾鹦鹉  – a type of parrot

macaw – 金刚鹦鹉

starling – 八哥

e.g.Don’t just parrot what someone else says.

copy – parrot – mimic 

runs the length – it goes down the entire “long way” – “all of it”

walkabout – tour by foot – short walk

cape – end -海角

For you, I would go to the end of the earth – 天涯海角

shipwreck – to wreck or crash your ship

e.g. The Titanic is probably the most famous shipwreck.

horn – 喇叭

loaf – loaf of bread – measure word for bread

e.g. I want one loaf of bread or maybe I will buy three loaves of bread.

cathedral – church – 大教堂

Christ the Redeemer in Brazil – 基督救世主

capybara – 水豚

oil rig – a big platform in the ocean where men drill for oil

mackerel – 鲭鱼