VIP Class Notes (Nick)

Would a pig make a nice pet? Could you keep a pig in an apartment in Shanghai?

Vocabulary

Prefix – a part of a word that can be put on the front to change the meaning, or as part of a word
e.g. “Sub” usually means “underneath,” like in submarine which is sub + marine (under the ocean).
Suffix – a part of a word that goes on the end
e.g. Many adverbs can be made from adjectives by adding the suffix “-ly”: Intelligent –> intelligently

Syllable (sill – uh – bull) – one sound part of a word with one vowel sound
e.g. in – tell – i – gent
e.g. in – sur – ance
Vowel – a e i o u (sometimes y); the shape of your mouth
Consonant – all the other letters; how you move the parts of your mouth

Dummy – something fake that you put in the place of something else
e.g. When we want to test the safety of a car, we use crash test dummies, not real people.

Hyper – to have a lot of energy
Excitable – someone who gets excited very easily or frequently

Appetite – when you want to eat; how much you can eat
e.g. My dog has a really good appetite. He eats a lot of food every day.

Bark / Whine – 汪！/ a high sound that a dog makes when they want your attention or want you to do something
e.g. Stella’s dog is always excited when she goes into the kitchen and will bark and then whine for food.

Shiba Inu – your dog

State – a verb of “being,” what you are, not what you do; a situation or relationship
e.g. I am sixteen (this person is not “doing” sixteen, they just are)
e.g. I own this phone (I am not doing anything to the phone, this is just my relationship to the phone)

Relationship with – a mutual relationship where both sides can recognize and feel something about the other
e.g. Between people, people and dogs, cats, pigs
Relationship to –

Hair – like on your head, especially if it can grow very long without falling out; hair on a human
Fur – hair on an animal; hair that only grows to some length and then falls out

Furry – an animal with a lot of fur, especially a very cute one
e.g. When people have pet pigs, they usually have the small furry ones, not the really big ones.

Healthy – strong and not sick
e.g. Pigs are generally very healthy animals and do not get sick easily.

Thesaurus – like dictionary that shows you many similar words

Moral – someone who does good things, who tries to treat people well
Immoral – the opposite of moral; doing bad things
Amoral – not having morals; not considering morals when deciding how to act

Un- ; In- ; A- : depending upon the language that a word came from, any of these three prefixes can mean “not”
e.g. Unhelpful = not helpful
e.g. Insoluble = not able to be solved
e.g. Amoral = not having morals

Greece – 希腊

Grammar

If study in university there were four years – If you study in a university it would be / take four years

He will very excited – he will get very excited
— Here, you were talking about a change of state for your dog from unexcited to excited.

Pig can eat everything – pigs can eat anything

Pronunciation

a university – this sound starts with a “y” even though we don’t write it
an umbrella
an “oo” sound