VIP Class Notes (Nick) [S]

What were your role and character in League of Legends?

Vocabulary

the Philippines – 菲律宾

Sink – when something goes underwater because it is heavy 下沉
e.g. The boat hit a rock and sank.
Float – to stay on top of the water 漂浮
e.g. When it is sunny I like to go out on the lake and float.

Transfer – to go from one place to another; to change from a bus to a plane, to a different plane, etc. 中转
e.g. I had to transfer at Vancouver （温哥华）

Go off duty – in a job where you have to work for some amount of time instead of some specific things, to leave work 下班

Day off – a day when you don’t have to work
e.g. Usually, I have Thursday off.
e.g. My days off are Wednesday and Saturday.
e.g. Today I have a day off so I can go to the hospital.
e.g. I took the afternoon off to go to the hospital.

Heal (verb) – when someone is hurt or sick and they get better (related to the word “healthy”)
e.g. I was hurt by a car, but I healed quickly.

Shooting Game – a game where you use guns to battle
e.g. 吃鸡 is a shooting game.

Win – to be the best in a game
e.g.  If you win a game in 吃鸡, the screen will do something cool.

Display – for something to show on a screen; to let people see something in public
e.g. If you win in ChiJi, the screen will display something special.
e.g. His new painting will be displayed in the museum.

Multiplayer (adj) – when more than one person plays a game at the same time, either with or against each other
e.g. ChiJi is a multiplayer game.
e.g. I like multiplayer games much better than games that you play alone.

Fallout – the dangerous stuff that comes from using nuclear weapons

Stuff and things – both for something, it doesn’t matter what
Stuff vs. Thing – stuff is uncountable; things are countable
e.g. There is a lot of stuff on the table
e.g. There are many things on the table

Mobile Games – on the phone
Computer Games – games on a computer
Console Games – games on a special computer for playing games, like a Playstation or an xBox

Role – what you do as part of a team 作用
e.g. Shooter, healer, magician, tank, brawler/fighter

Grammar

Hurt, hurt hurt
Spend, spent, spent
Sink, sank, sunk

I finished work early because I need to go to the hospital. My ears hurt. I talk to my boss. She said if you finish the duty you can finish work early. The hospital near my home. I spend one hour from my company to my home. First I took the subway and then I took / ___ the bus. When I arrived hospital, the doctor will finish work. I am the last one. The doctor said my ears are infected. (How long until they are healed?) He didn’t say. He gave me the medicine. And then I come here. I come here for half an hour. I took the subway. I think here is close to the subway station.

I finished work early / I left work early / I got off work early because I needed to go to the hospital. My ears hurt. I talked to my boss. She said if you finish the duty your work you can finish work leave early. The hospital is near my home. I spent one hour traveling from my company to my home. First I took the subway and then I took the / transferred to a bus. When I arrived at the hospital, the doctor is about to go off duty will finish work. I was the last one. The doctor said my ears are infected. (How long until they are healed?) He didn’t say. He gave me the some medicine. And then I came here. It took me half an hour to get / arrive here. I took the subway. I think SmartEnglish / this building / class is close to the subway station.