VIP Class Notes (Nick)

Use today and yesterday’s vocabulary to do some writing. Think about the tense and which prepositions to use.
Try to use words talking about how much: all, none, most, some

Continue to use words for quantity and frequency like all, none, most, some, always, never (avoid Chinglish expressions like “always don’t”)

Vocabulary

Rash – a skin condition that is red and usually itchy; it can be caused by either dryness or moisture
e.g. Atopic dermatitis is a type of rash that babies get.

Diaper – baby underwear
e.g. Riva’s company sells diaper cream for babies with a rash.

To appear in – something is found within a group; some people have this condition
e.g. Atopic appears in adults as well as children.
e.g. Cancer usually appears in older people.
To appear on – to say that a person has a skin condition
e.g. A rash appeared on my arm today, so I need to find a moisturizing cream.

Journalism – a reporter, a person who writes the news
e.g. I studied journalism in college to become a reporter.

Censor – to remove information that you don’t want someone to know
e.g. Movies that show naked people are often censored before they are shown on tv.

Entirely – totally, completely
e.g. I agree with what you said entirely.

Respond – answer, 回答; usually uses the preposition to
e.g. He responded to my question, and he was correct.
You use “to” when you want to talk about who asked the question, or what was asked.
e.g. How do you want to respond (to what he said)?

Noun vs. Pronoun – a thing; a word that replaces a thing (it, he, she, none)
e.g. James has seventeen apples.
e.g. He has them.

Grammar

Jesse suggested that I will not use this book yet – Jesse suggested that I don’t use this book yet

For vs. about – for is to show the reason that you use something; about is to show what it means, or what it is related to
e.g. Uriage is for taking care of your skin.
e.g. Skincare is about taking care of your skin (about tells us what the meaning of skincare is)

The brand is named (of) Mustela – the brand is (called) Mustela

More gentle than soap – it is gentler than soap

-er – anything that is more than something else
e.g. Hunan food is tastier than Beijing food.

Always didn’t – never
e.g. I never read China Daily.

No apples vs. None – if you want to tell someone what you don’t have, then you just use “no”; otherwise you can use none
e.g. There are no apples in the basket.
e.g. We ate all the apples this morning. Now there are none.
None is often used to respond to a question:
e.g. How many apples do we have? We have none.

I understand it all/everything (entirely) – I understood all of the things we talked about, and I understood them well