VIP Class Notes (Nick) [W]

Do a speaking section about the last Avengers movie (“Infinity War”) to get ready for the new Avengers movie (“Endgame”)! What happened? Who is left (who didn’t disappear)? Where was Thanos (the big purple guy) at the end of the movie? What do you think will happen in the last movie?

Vocabulary

Assignment – a piece of work that you are given
e.g. Today we received three homework assignments, one from math class, one from history class, and one from science class.

Proper name – the name of a person or special place
e.g. Nick
e.g. Lily
e.g. Shanghai

Festival – a large public party, an event
Holiday – a special public day, but not an event
e.g. I visited my family for Qingming / Christmas / the Qingming Festival
— “Festival” means the days of the holiday and the celebration, the events.

Pair – two things together
Set – usually more than two things that go together
e.g. This is my new pair of gloves.
e.g. Let’s use my new tea set (cups, plates, teapot, etc.)

Project – usually for work, a large job which will take some time to complete
Activity – something to do in your free time
e.g. This summer we will start a new project to develop a new product.
e.g. This evening we will some activities after dinner, like karaoke, ping pong, and chess.

To do [something] by accident – to do it without thinking, without really meaning to, without having a plan
e.g. We wanted to start a fun coffee shop, but by accident we ended up with a game store that sells coffee.
e.g. “Hello? Who is this?” “I’m sorry, I must have called you by accident.”

Pedal – the part of a bike you push with your feet to ride
e.g. I was short then, so I couldn’t sit on the seat. From up there, I couldn’t reach the pedals.

Emphasize – to show that something is important, to make someone pay more attention to something
e.g. I would like to emphasize that you should always ask your teacher if they use a word you don’t recognize.

Grammar

Sing, sang, sung

Sit, sat, sat

Half of them missed – half of them went missing / disappeared
— “To miss” means that you want something that you don’t have (“missed” is an adjective for this meaning)
e.g. I miss the food from Chicago.
— “To be missing” is when people can’t find you, they don’t know where you are (“missing” is an adjective for a different meaning)
e.g. This man went missing a few days ago and the police are still looking for him.
— To disappear is to suddenly not be somewhere you were before, or expected to be
e.g. He was just here a minute ago. Where is he? How did he disappear like that?

Today evening zero o’clock the first movie before others – Tonight (at midnight) is the (movie) premiere

Yesterday, I went to Shanghai Flower Port which has a tulip show from the Qingming Festival to the end of April each year. I saw many different types of tulips. Besides tulips, there were diverse flowers, such as LuBing Hua (Lupine). I have sang a song called “LuBing Hua” from childhood. It was my first time to see it. There were many other projects for tourists, but I have no time to try. If I go again, I will try.

I started to learn how to ride a bike when I was 10 years old. Every weekend, I practiced at a playground with my dad. But it is an unexpected thing that I could ride it thoroughly. One day, I sit on the back of my bike and moved by my feet. Suddenly, I saw something in front of me, I wanted to find out what is that. I rode without thinking. After I rode for a while, I found that I can ride.

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Yesterday, I went to the Shanghai Flower Port which has a tulip show from the Qingming Festival to the end of April each year. I saw many different types of tulips. Besides tulips, there were also diverse types of flowers, such as LuBing Hua (Lupine). Since childhood I have enjoyed singing a song called “LuBing Hua” from childhood. It was my first time to see this flower. There were many other projects activities for tourists, but I had no time to try. If I go again, I will try.

I started to learn how to ride a bike when I was 10 years old. Every weekend, I practiced at a playground with my Dad. But it was almost by accident is an unexpected thing that I could learned to / was finally able to ride (a bike) it thoroughly. One day, I sat on the back of my bike and moved by my feet. Suddenly, I saw something in front of me. I wanted to find out what is that it was. I rode without thinking. After I rode around for a while, I found realized that I can was riding.

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