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

Vocabulary

Analyze (v): 1- to study or examine something in detail, in order to discover more about it.
E.g.: We need to analyze all the information before we make a decision.

Storytelling (n): 1- the art of telling stories.
E.g,: The celebration will include dance, song, and storytelling.

Original:

This morning I woke up at 7AM, take a shower and then I prepare my breakfast. I’m relaxed. My breakfast with was eggs, bread, I drunk coffee. And when I start eat it, I receive a WeChat, it’s my driver, he said “Elena, you want to go to university today?” I said “Yes, of course” and then I saw my phone because I need check what time is it. It’s very late, because my classes started at 9:25 and it was 9AM, and I need leave 8:45AM. I forgot what time is it. I drunk my coffee only, and I went too fast. And today is the first day that my driver took my in ten minutes to university. When I finish class at 12 and 10 minutes, I go back home and my husband send me message, he invited me have the lunch in a Italian restaurant near my home.

Edited:

This morning I woke up at 7AM, took a shower and prepared my breakfast. I was relaxed, so I made eggs, bread, and coffee. When I started eating, I received a WeChat message from my driver, asking: “Elena, do you want to go to the university today?” I said “Yes, of course” and then when I checked the time on my phone I realized it was very late. My classes started at 9:25, so I had to leave 8:45. It was  already 9AM, so I just drank my coffee, and left. Today was the first day my driver managed to take me to the university in ten minutes. When I finished my class, at 12:10 (ten past twelve / twelve ten), I went home. When I got there, my husband sent me a message / messaged me, inviting me to have lunch at an Italian restaurant near my home.

Original:

Last Saturday was a relaxed day, because really I didn’t do anything. I woke up too late, at 11:30, and then I took a shower. That day my husband made lunch which was chicken meat balls, at 6:00pm my husband went to gym and me too, but beforehand we slept a little more. When we back home, we prepared dinner and ate, then we sat on the sofa with a blanket and we saw a movie which was Coco, by the way the movie was very sad, but let a good lesson like love for the family.
Last Sunday we went to Swedish restaurant to had a brunch, all food delicious. We were full so we back home walking, we walked around 2 kilometres. At home we fell asleep 20 minutes, and then I started drawing and painting the new painting for my aunt. After that I started my English homework, and stopped it a few minutes during I prepared dinner, and then I continued and finished it.

Edited:

Last Saturday was a relaxed day, because I didn’t do anything. I woke up late, at 11:30, and then I took a shower. That day my husband made lunch, which was chicken meat balls. At 6:00pm my husband and I went to the gym, but beforehand we slept a little more. When we got back home, we prepared dinner and ate, then we sat on the sofa with a blanket and saw a animated movie named Coco. The movie was very sad, but taught a good lesson about love for the family.

On Sunday we went to a Swedish restaurant to have brunch, and the food was delicious. We were full, so we walked home for around 2 kilometers. At home we fell asleep for 20 minutes, and then I started drawing and painting a new picture for my aunt. After that I started my English homework. I stopped it for a few minutes to prepare dinner, and after that I finished it.

Grammar

Last time I write too much. – Last time I wrote too much.

Pronunciation

Creative: /kriˈeɪ.t̬ɪv/

Layer: /lei.er/

Walked: /walkt/

Stopped: /stopt/

/T/, /D/, or /ID/ for Regular Past-Tense English Verbs

“Ed” as “T”: If the infinitive of the verb has a voiceless sound at the end of it, such as p, k, s, ch, sh, f, x, or h, you pronounce the “ed” ending as a “T.” (Note the pronunciation in parentheses. It’s the sound that determines the group that a word belongs to, not always the written letter.)
Examples: asked, baked, brushed, cooked, cracked, crashed, danced,  dressed, dropped, escaped, finished, fixed, guessed, helped, hiked, hoped, joked, jumped, kissed, knocked, laughed, locked, looked, missed, mixed, packed, passed, picked, pressed, pronounced, pushed, relaxed, shopped, slipped, smoked, stopped, talked, typed, walked, washed, watched, worked

Ed as “D”: If the last sound in the verb is a voiced one, such as in l, v, n, m, r, b, v, g, w, y, z, and vowel sounds, or diphthongs, then pronounce the “-ed” ending as “D.”
Examples: advised, agreed, allowed, answered, appeared, arrived, believed, belonged, burned, called, carried, changed, cleaned, closed, covered, cried, damaged, described, died, dried, earned, encouraged, enjoyed, entered, explained, explored, filled, followed, happened, imagined, interviewed, jailed, killed, listened, lived, loved, measured, moved, opened, planned, played, performed, pulled, rained, realized, remembered, repaired, saved, shared, shaved, showed, signed, slammed, stayed, snowed, studied, traveled, tried, turned, used, welcomed, whispered, worried, yawned

Ed as “ID” If the last sound in the infinitive verb is a t or d, pronounce the “-ed” ending as “ID.”
Examples: accepted, afforded, arrested, attended, collected, contacted, counted, decided, defended, demanded, divided, ended, expanded, expected, exported, flooded, graduated, hated, hunted, included, invented, invited, landed, needed, painted, planted, presented, pretended, printed, protected, provided, rented, repeated, reported, respected, rested, scolded, shouted, skated, started, treated, visited, waited, wanted, wasted