VIP Class Notes (Nick)

Next Class Focus

Do a speaking section.

Homework

Talk about the movie you watched on Tuesday. What was it about? Was it happy, sad, exciting?

Vocabulary

Quiz – when someone asks you what you know 测验

Character – just one 字
Word
– one or more characters that have one meaning 词
e.g. 睡觉 is one word, “sleep,” but it is two characters

Dictionary – a book that tells you what words mean, 词典

Subject – who is doing something in a sentence? 主语
Object – who or what are they doing it to? 宾语
Noun – a person, place, or thing 名词
Adjective – a word that tells you something about a noun 形容词
Verb – what you do, what’s happening 动词
Adverb – a word that tells how you do something 副词

Take another look – look at this again, do it one more time
e.g. I thought that it was dog from far away, but when I took another look, I realized that it was a cat.

Diplomacy – the relations between countries 外交
Politics – who is in charge, who is leading a country 政治

Perspective – how something looks from where you are 视角, what you think because of what has happened to you 观点

Meaning / Definition – how you explain a word; meaning is general

General – having many examples, talking about many examples, 一般,普通,通用
Specific – just one thing, just one example 特定

Actor – someone in movies or on TV 演员

Admire – to think that what someone does is good 佩服

Grammar

Chinese sentence order:
Subject + (Extra information: when, with who, where) + Verb + Object
e.g. 我跟我的女朋友七点去吃饭
English sentence order:
Subject + Verb + Object + (Extra information: when, with who, where)
e.g. I am going to eat with my girlfriend at seven o’clock.

Building a basic sentence is really just putting pieces together. Take another look at this page!

The Smart Way to Learn English

How long will you came to China – How long since you came to China
— “Will” is about the future, what you haven’t done yet
— “Since” is about the time between when you did something and now

Yesterday I watching a movie – watched