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

Homework

Go to www.breakingnewsenglish.com, pick an article, read it and then write a paragraph about it.

Vocabulary

Creativity (n): 1- the ability to produce original and unusual ideas, or to make something new or imaginative
E.g.: This jobs requires lots of creativity.

Repurpose (v): 1- to find a new use for an idea, product, or building:
E.g.: Cinemas are harder to repurpose than ordinary shops.
E.g.: They are trying to repurpose the old shops into an art school

Sculpture (n): 1-  the art of forming solid objects that represent a thing, person, idea, etc. out of a material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone, or an object made in this way 2- 雕塑
E.g.: Tom teaches sculpture at the local art school.
E.g.: The museum has several life-sized sculptures of people and animals.

Monarch (n): 1- a king or queen.
E.g.: Britain’s has a monarch named Queen Elizabeth.

Reign (n): 1- to be the king or queen of a country.
E.g.: Queen Victoria reigned over Britain from 1837 to 1901.

Portrait (n): 1- a painting, photograph, drawing, etc. of a person or, less commonly, of a group of people.
E.g.: She’s hired an artist to paint her portrait/paint a portrait of her.

Humor (n): 1- the ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the quality of being funny:
E.g.: He’s got a great sense of humor (= he is very able to see things as funny).
E.g.: I must say I find his schoolboy (= childish) humor very tiring.
E.g.: Even a speech on a serious subject can have a little humor.
E.g.: Do you like his kind of humor?

Platinum (n): 1- 铂

Grammar

I will do it one year later – I will do it one year from now / I will do it in one year. 

Reading

UK Queen Celebrates 70th Wedding Anniversary

Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 70th wedding anniversary on Monday with her husband Prince Philip. She was 21 when she got married on November 20, 1947. She is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum anniversary. She is the UK’s longest reigning monarch. The couple spent the day at Windsor Castle. They marked the occasion with several official portraits. Britain’s post office issued a set of commemorative postage stamps.

The royal couple met as teenagers during World War II. Prince Philip was the son of a Greek prince. He gave up his title to get married. He told his future mother-in-law that he had, “fallen in love completely”. He said: “My job first, second and last, is never to let the Queen down.” He has always been there for the Queen. She called him her “rock”. A journalist explained that humor helped their marriage because they could share a joke together.

Speaking exercise

Original:

Last weekend I went to Suzhou with my friend. We visit many gardens and ate lots of food. I have a warm feel in a hotel. The building was build hundreds years ago and now the holder changed into hotels. We only have two days there. I went to museum and seen many sculptures, paintings and many other things.

Edited

Last weekend I went to Suzhou with my friend. We visited many gardens, ate lots of food and stayed at an amazing hotel. The building was built hundreds of years ago and was recently repurposed into a hotel. We also went to a museum and saw many sculptures, paintings and many other things. We stayed there for only two days.

Pronunciation

Creativity: ˌ/kri·eɪˈtɪv·ɪ·t̬i/

Changed: /ʧeɪnʤd

Visited: /ˈvɪz.ɪt.əd /

Sculpture: /ˈskʌlp.tʃɚ/

 70th: /ˈsev.ən.t̬i.əθ/

Monarch: /ˈmɑː.nɚk/

Platinum: /ˈplæt.nəm/


Cambridge Dictionary:
www.dictionary.cambridge.org/

Breaking News English
www.breakingnewsenglish.com/