VIP Class Notes (Nick) [S]

How did you cook the vegetables you took to your grandmother’s?

Vocabulary

Sad – 可怜, 伤心

Industry – factories and things
e.g. During the time of Oliver Twist, England had a lot
Industrial Revolution – a time that began in England when they started to make clothes very quickly with machines

In-flight – something that happens during the time you are on a plane
e.g. They showed The Devil Wears Prada as the in-flight movie.
e.g. For the in-flight meal, they gave us chicken and noodles.

Anything – I want something, but I do not care which one
e.g. I am so hungry I could eat anything (carrots, soup, duck, snake)

Carrot – 胡萝卜
Cucumber – 黄瓜
Bok Choy – 青菜 (I think this is what we called qingcai in the US; the name comes from Korean)
Broccoli – 西兰花
Luffa – 丝瓜 (the round kind, because the other is 秋葵)
Tofu – 豆腐

Pronunciation – the sounds you make, how you say something 发音
e.g. Maybe in English we used the Japanese pronunciation to get the “t” in “tofu.”

District – 区

边界 – Border, boundary
— A “border” is a line between two countries or two states/provinces
— A “boundary” is more general, and

Continent – a very large area of land 洲
e.g. 非洲，北美洲，南美洲。。。

Take out the garbage – to put your garbage out by the street so that the garbage truck can come take it away 扔垃圾

Truck – 卡车 🚚

袭击 – Attack – to try to hurt someone all of a sudden, without warning

Warning – to tell someone that there is something dangerous coming
e.g. We gave them a warning that there was going to be a lot of rain, so they should bring their chairs inside.

Las Vegas – a city in the West where people go to spend money
Gamble – to spend money on something because you might get much more money back than you spent 赌博

Beach – 海边，沙滩

Shoot – 射
Shooting – when someone uses a gun to hurt other people, usually a lot of them

Grammar

His father was dead vs. His father died vs. His father was killed
— 死着
— 死了
— 被杀死

Use for to talk about how long you stay somewhere
e.g. I was in Taiwan for three days.

I did nothing this weekend. I watched a movie in this holiday and I went to / visited to my grandmother with my mother. We talk about something like my work and study. I bought many vegetables and meat on app before we went. 丝瓜，黄瓜，青菜，豆腐. I go to my grandmother home once a month. I usually stay in her house one day. My grandmother lives in Jiaoqu, Baoshan 区. She lives in Shanghai beside the 边界, besides Jiangsu Province.

I did nothing this weekend / I didn‘t do anything. I watched a movie in this during the holiday and I went to my grandmother’s house / visited to my grandmother with my mother. We talked about some things like my work and studies. I bought many vegetables and some meat on/through an app before we went: luffa, cucumber, bok choy, and tofu. I go to my grandmother’s home once a month. I usually stay in her house for one day. My grandmother lives in Jiaoqu, Baoshan district. She lives in Shanghai beside on/near the boundary with besides Jiangsu Province.

— “With” because these provinces share the line.

Pronunciation

Fairy vs. Fiery – fare – ee vs. fire – ee

Beach vs. Bitch – long “e” and short “i”
e.g. Free vs. hit