VIP Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Next Class Focus

Review the difference between “L” and “K” in slip and skip.

Vocabulary

甜甜圈 – donut – a sweet bread with sugar on top

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Ladybug – a red and black insect that looks like the red donut abovehttp://www.farmersalmanac.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/iStock_3405593_LadyBug.jpg

糖 – Sugar – something sweet that you put on other things
candy – a type of sugar you eat by itself

你每周几次唱歌 – How many times each week do you sing?
我每周三次唱歌 – I sing three times each week.

Noisy – 吵

Puzzle – 拼图

Half-past one – 一点半
Half an hour – 半个小时

Practice – 练习
e.g. Sherry forgot the song she wanted to sing. She will have to practice it later.

Dressing – 酱 that you put on a salad
e.g. Sherry likes to put tomato dressing on her salad.

Also – 也, like “too,” but you use it before the word
e.g. I also like to eat pizza.
e.g. I like to eat pizza too.

Grammar

When you want to tell someone what time you will do something, you should use “at.”
e.g. I go to class at five o’clock.
e.g. I go to bed at nine o’clock.
e.g. I eat lunch at eleven o’clock.

Speaking exercise

Write homework. Chinese. Half past one. I like singing. I like sing qinghuaci, zhongwen. I sing three times each week. I favorite eat is salad. I like put in the tomato, carrot, qingcai, 番茄酱. I like pizza. Tomato, pineapple, 大蒜, 大洋葱. I want to play football slipping the rope. 玩拼图. I go to the bed is nine o’clock.


Today, I did my Chinese homework. It took half an hour to do. I did my homework from 10 to 10:30 in the morning. I like singing. I like to sing qinghuaci. I sing songs in Chinese / I sing Chinese songs. I sing three times each week. My favorite thing to eat is salad. I like to put in the tomato, carrot, qingcai, and tomato dressing in my salad. I also like pizza. I put tomato, pineapple, garlic, and onion on my pizza. Tonight, I want to play football and skip the rope. After I play football and jump rope, I want to work on a puzzle. I go to the bed is at nine o’clock.

Pronunciation

Skip vs. Slip