VIP Class Notes (Nick) [W]

Next Class Focus

Begin the section on “body paragraphs” on page 53.

Homework

Write about pasta. What is your favorite type of pasta? Why? Do you like red sauce or white sauce?

Vocabulary

Supernova – when a star explodes
e.g. A supernova is one of the most powerful things in the universe.

Constellation – stars you can see in the sky; when the stars together look like a shape
e.g. The Big and Little Dippers are constellations. They look like spoons!

Frown – when you are making a sad face, like an upside-down smile    like this –>  🙁
e.g. Let’s turn that frown upside-down (make it a smile)

Degree – for temperature; a piece of paper you get after completing college
e.g. It is 23 degrees Celsius outside.
e.g. Annie Jump Cannon received two degrees in astronomy.

Hire – to ask someone to work for you, and then you pay them for it
e.g. Annie J. Cannon was hired by the Harvard College Observatory (she worked at the Observatory, and they paid her to do it)

Basic English numbers: ones, tens, hundreds
This is different from Chinese numbers, which have four basic numbers: 个,十,百,千
Big English numbers: (ones) thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion . . .
We can combine them for big numbers:
1,000 – one thousand
10,000 – ten thousand
100,000 – one hundred thousand
1,000,000 – one million
12,538,039,460 – twelve billion five hundred and thirty-eight million thirty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty

Quality – something about a person
e.g. tall, short, fat, thin, beautiful, ugly, big nose, small nose
e.g. patient, kind, angry, happy, interesting, boring

Writing exercise

The list of Cannon: the telescope is useful for Cannon. Because stars are very far away from us. So that if she used it, it can let her to see stars in double the magnification. Use the electronic satellite is useful too. It can fly in the space and measure the secrets between the stars.


The list of Cannon: the telescope was useful for Cannon, because stars are very far away from us. So that if she used it, it can let her to With a telescope she can see stars in double the magnification. Using the (electronic) satellite is useful too. It can fly in the space and measure the distances secrets between the stars.

Pronunciation

Qualities – kwal – i – teez