VIP Class Notes (Nick) [W]

Write about Chicago. What do you know about it? How cold does it get there.

Vocabulary

Spin – to move like a circle 自旋
e.g. During class, Joe was having fun spinning in his chair.

Author – someone whose job is to write, someone who writes books
e.g. Joe writes so beautifully that maybe someday he will be an author.

Christmas tree – 圣诞树
e.g. The Christmas tree that they put up in New York each year is so tall! It is three or four stories tall!

Story – one level of a building 层楼
e.g. The New York Christmas tree is three or four stories tall.

Chicago – 芝加哥
e.g. Chicago is very cold in the winter!

Negative – a number below zero 零下
e.g. Sometimes, in winter, it is negative 40 or 50C. So cold!

Freeze – 冻
Freeze to death – 冻死

Blue – about a person, it means “to be sad”
e.g. Joe isn’t blue, his shirt is blue!
e.g. Joe is wearing a blue shirt.

Grammar

She can English – She can speak English / She knows English

China language – Chinese

She don’t say to me – She didn’t say anything

In  New York have a very, very tall 圣诞树 – In New York there is a very tall Christmas tree / New York has a very tall Christmas tree

I isn’t gone to America – I haven’t been to America

Beijing is the capital of china. I take train to Beijing last year. I see Tiananmen square. It’s big. there are many peaple in it. Beijing is beautiful.

Beijing is the capital of China. I took the/a train to Beijing last year. I saw Tiananmen square. It’s big. There are many people in it there. Beijing is beautiful.

(Joe also spontaneously began writing on the whiteboard, and we practiced his spelling.)

Oh no!! There is very cold, but we can go to park.

Oh no!! There It is very cold, but we can still go to park.