VIP Class Notes (Nicholas) [S]

If an object (a cell phone, a cup, a pencil, a watch) belongs to someone, remember to tell me “who it belongs to” in your sentence.

I like reading articles from the People’s Daily and testing your reading comprehension. These are more difficult articles — you are doing a great job learning the context clues for words that we don’t understand.

Do your friends use their cell phones often? Do they bring them to school? Should they be allowed to bring them to school?

They play games with their cell phones and they are…They play Minecraft and some Chinese game. And they always send many pictures in WeChat and it makes me very uncomfortable. Most of our the people in our class have a cell phone. I usually search for English words on my cell phone when I make find new words and sometimes I have lessons on the my cell phone. I like them both. I just send a few messages to friends. Some are very close to me and some are not.

We have a meeting at noon and we tell told other students many messages and sometimes I will help other students with their studies [I help other students study]. There are 7 students leaders in my class. Some of them are my friends. There are 4 boys and 3 girls.

Your goals (5 years – 10 years)

I want to go to Harvard University because I think it is a good university and my mother also wants me to go there.

Do you think money is important?

I think it is not very important but I also need money [money is necessary]. I think it’s a good hobby, and we must do good things.

Vocabulary

Goals (目标) — this is something that I want to do in the future; it is something that I want to be successful at; I want to think about something very good in the future, and I want to achieve (win) it.

e.g. It’s really good for young people like me to set big, big goals. When I set a goal I think “what do I want to do?”, and then I write a plan, and then I do it.

Most Recent (最近)— what is the last one that you read/watched/saw…

e.g. Henry is the most recent students I have taught today.

Allowed (允许) — this means: can I do something? Am I allowed to do this or does this teacher/parent tell me “no, you cannot.”

e.g. In my school, students are not allowed to use cell phones in class. They must give the cell phone to the teacher, and then the teacher will return the cell phone to the student after school.

“______ is necessary” : “If I need something, it is necessary.”

e.g. Money is necessary to live. Food is necessary to live. Energy and water are also necessary to live.

satellite 卫星 — is a small object or thing that we send to outer space; it can tell us the weather, it can help us draw maps.

e.g. China is sending five satellites into space.

orbit 轨道 — this is when objects float in a circle around a planet or the sun in outer space.

e.g. The five satellites will float in orbit around earth.

symptoms 症状 — the feelings that you have when you are sick.

e.g. I have a runny nose and sometimes I will have a sore throat. And I have a cough at nighttime. These are my symptoms.

extinct 灭绝 — they are all dead.

e.g. In the Yangtze river, which is the third longest river in the world (behind the Nile and Amazon rivers), all of the fish are going extinct.