VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)

Homework

Write 5-6 sentences using the vocabulary from today. Then next class a teacher will correct it for you. Or you can bring in emails that you will send to your daughter’s school – and a teacher here can correct it for you.

Grammar

logistic / I work in logistics

all kind of subject / She studies all kinds of subjects

Who is doing it and what are they/is she doing?

She is singing very well / She sings very well

Verb (sing) / general (“usually”)  vs. Verb+ING (singing) / specific 特定

e.g. She is singing right now.

e.g. She sings everyday.

e.g. She sings at school.

e.g. She is singing at the school tonight.

She likes Chinese mother / She likes her Chinese mother

She thinks she is a Chinese person

She doesn’t like Japanese people / Japan

Japanese = adjective

Japan = noun

She lives lived in Tokyo for only 2 years /

She‘s study girl’s school / She studies at an all-girls school

she will go back return to China or Japan three times per year

e.g. When will you go back to China? (informal)

e.g. When will you return to China? (formal)

she goes to Tokyo

If the situation isn’t real – it’s hypothetical å‡è®¾ – use I WOULD

e.g. If I was a celebrity/famous person (ming ren) I would love the money.

e..g If I was a celerity I will love the money.

If the situation is real -not hypothetical – use I WILL

e.g. Tomorrow I will take money out of the bank.

HAVE BEEN = I was + I am now

e.g I have been married for 19 years.

WAS = I was but I am not now.

e.g. I was married, but now I am not married.

Money is important – I don’t know how to say it – I need to pay the money every year to my daughter‘s school / [tuition] – yes, I need money to travel – and I need the money to buy something the things that I like / the things that make me comfortable.

No – I need to be calm, I need quiet, I need to feel safe / I need safety.

Yes my life is very expensive / I have very expensive tastes / I have an expensive lifestyle – I need to keep/[maintain] the a high quality of life – a high quality life for me consists of travel, studying English, doing pilates, and eating some delicious food –

Communication is very important – Xin zai bu hui – Recently we don’t fight / we haven’t been fighting.

Before 10 years we often fight / Before our 10 year anniversary we fought often.

my husband is very kind – he had responsibility he is very responsible to his  family

Vocabulary

primary school / xiao xue / primary school comes before middle school

“empty nesters” / like a bird’s nest / å·¢ / these are the parents when all of their children leave the home and now they live alone

e.g. Usually American parents are depressed when they become empty nesters.

to be depressed / very sad / to have depression / if you have depression usually a doctor has to give you medicine – it’s a sadness that doesn’t go away usually

e.g. But Irene was not depressed when her nest was empty.

calm å¹³é™ / to feel peaceful

e.g. I like listening to piano music because it makes me feel calm (noun).

e.g Piano music calms (verb) me.

e.g Piano music is very calming (adjective).

to be quiet 安é™Â 

e.g. I turned the music off because I wanted my room to be quiet.

e.g. I like to do pilates and is makes my mind quiet.

safety 安全 / to feel safe

e.g. I wouldn’t want to be famous because I would have no safety / I wouldn’t have safety.

fight / 战斗

e.g. My husband and I have been was married for 19 years and we do not fight / I am married still / I married now

e.g. I was married for 19 years / this means you are not married now.

argue (verb) / 认为 / arguments (noun)

e.g. I never argue with my husband.

e.g. We never get into arguments.

tuition / 学费

e.g. Tuition at my daughter’s school is really expensive.

anniversary / 周年

e.g. Next year will be our 20th year wedding anniversary.

Pronunciation

the / not da / TH-words / put your tongue in between your teeth / say these TH word slowly at first