VIP Class Notes (Raph)[R][S]

Vocabulary

Social media (n): 1- websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and share information on the internet using a computer or mobile phone.
E.g.: She loves to post pictures of herself on social media.
E.g.: Social media apps and websites such as Weibo, WeChat, and QQ are very popular in China.

Swear (v): 1- to say rude or offensive words. 2- to promise or say firmly that you are telling the truth or that you will do something or behave in a particular way:
E.g.: It was a real shock, the first time I heard my mother swear.
E.g.: I don’t know anything about what happened, I swear (it).

Airline (n): 1- a business that operates regular services for carrying passengers and/or goods by aircraft.
E.g.: What airline did you fly with? I flew with Air China (国航).

Grammar

I am thirty years old.

I am a thirty-year-old man. – In this sentence, thirty-year-old works as an adjective, and therefore is not put in the plural.

(Original – Edited)

When my son starts classes it’s not very often to go out, because many homeworks to do. – When my son’s school starts, we don’t / won’t go out very often, because he has / will have a lot of homework to do. 

We went to travel Sanya one weeks. – We went to Sanya for a week.

We felt not good – We didn’t feel good. / We felt bad. 

Woman thrown off plane for shouting at crying baby
(Source: www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1802/180217-crying-baby-2.html)

An airplane passenger was asked to leave a flight after she complained about a crying baby. The woman told cabin crew she would not sit down because a crying baby was in the seat next to hers. The woman was very rude to the baby’s mother. The mother, Marissa Rundell, was with her 8-month-old baby son. They were flying home from New York’s JFK airport. Even though it was a short flight, the angry woman was very unhappy. She said it was terrible that she had to sit at the back of the plane. The flight was full, so she could not get a different seat.

Ms Rundell took a video of the angry woman shouting and posted it on social media. In the video, the woman picks up her bag and coat and angrily shouts: “I’m not sitting next to a crying baby.” She would not calm down. The woman got very angry and started to swear at Ms Rundell. Cabin crew asked the woman to get off the airplane. It took her ten minutes to leave. She told the cabin crew she would get them fired. Rundell wrote on Facebook: “This lady thought she was going to be rude to me and…now she has no way home today.”

Original:

It’s sunny yesterday. I took my parents and my son to the City God Temple at Yuyuan Garden. I hadn’t been there for a long time. There were many people and we needed to follow the people to move slowly. My son was interested in Turkey ice cream and the salesperson jokes with customers during he took the ice cream, and attracted many people to buy and watch. My mother was interested in all kinds of lanterns. My father and I just felt tired, because it’s too hot. About two hours later we went home.

Edited:

It was sunny yesterday, so I took my parents and my son to the City God Temple at Yuyuan Garden. I hadn’t been there for a long time. There were many people there, and we had to follow them slowly in order to move. My son was interested in eating Turkish ice cream. The salesperson joked with customers while preparing the ice cream, which attracted many people to buy and watch. My mother was interested in all kinds of lanterns. My father and I just felt tired, because it was too hot. About two hours later we went home.

Pronunciation

Live (v): /lɪv/

Live (adj): /laɪv/

Fault: /fɑːlt/

Never: /ˈnev.ɚ/

Aspirin: /ˈæs.prɪn/

Adjective: /ˈædʒ.ek.tɪv/

Plural: /ˈplʊr.əl/

Allow: /əˈlaʊ/

App: /æp/

Lantern: /ˈlæn.tɚn/

While: /waɪl/