VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

Homework


Write about how you prepare for a long drive

Speaking exercise

from Oct 1 to Oct 8 , 8 days holiday, very long.
I went to a hotel on the mountain.
Very very beautiful scenery
Express about what is experience talk about it.
We stay in the room and there is a glass door and stairs and a swimming pool.
We waited for the sunset

Nearby HZ. if you drive about 1h from HZ to Tong Long.
About 3h you can arrive Tong Long.
Went to mountains

we stay at the hotel at the top of the mountain / at the summit and we drove up the mountain to reach the hotel
we spent 5 days on the mountain.  we reached the mountain on Sep 30

The hotel just 2 customer, I and my husband.
Sep 30 is workday and people are working and choose to leave at night.
I with my husband stay in the hotel on oct 2, after many people reached the hotel on Oct 3.

We drive from 9am to 6pm.

The highway is very congested

if you choose train, from train station to hotel on mountain you cannot reach to it.
Taxi is very expensive.

Not convenient
in Japan I went to the temple from Kyoto, I spent 5,000 JPY.

Japan taxi drivers drive very fast.

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from Oct 1 to Oct 8 , we had 8 days holiday, it was very long.
I went to a hotel on the mountain. / at the summit of the mountain
The scenery was very beautiful.

Let me tell you about it / let me talk about it

We stayed in a room at the summit and there was a glass door and stairs and a swimming pool.
We waited for the sunset. / we waited for the sun to set

It is nearby HZ. If you drive it takes about 1h from HZ to Tong Long. / it takes 1h to go from HZ to TL by car.
In about 3h you can arrive in Tong Long.
We went to mountains

we stayed at the hotel at the top of the mountain / at the summit and we drove up the mountain to reach the hotel
we spent 5 days on the mountain.  we reached the mountain on Sep 30.

The hotel just had 2 customer / only 2 customers lived in the hotel, my husband and I .
Sep 30 was a workday and people were working and chose to leave at night.
Before Oct 2 My husband and I stayed alone in the hotel on Oct 2, many people reached the hotel on Oct 3 / after oct 3 there were many people in the hotel.

We drove from 9am to 6pm. / we drove for 9h.

The highway was very congested / there were many traffic jams on the highway
It was so bad that my friend didn’t move at all for several hours

if you choose the train/ if you choose to take the train, you cannot reach the hotel from the train station  / it is difficult to find a taxi to go to the hotel on the mountain.
The taxi is very expensive.

It is not convenient
in Japan when I went to the 3000 temple from Kyoto, I spent 5,000 JPY.
Japanese taxi drivers drive very fast.

Vocabulary

humid (adj) 湿的
Shenzhen is very humid

be familiar with  / get familiar with / become familiar with: 熟悉
Tom is familiar with SH, he has lived in SH for 10 years.
John just arrived in SH 1 month ago and he is getting familiar with Chinese food.
Tibo is familiar with SH, he has lived in SH for 7 years.

congested (adj) 堵
The highway was congested
The road was very congested
The road is very congested in the morning

traffic jam (n)交通阻塞
If there is a big traffic jam, walking is faster.
The traffic jam was very bad

reach (v) 到达
We reached the train station at 8:30pm

summit (n) 山顶
The scenery at the summit was amazing

scenery (n) 风景
the scenery is beautiful.

Grammar

drive (drive / drove/ driven)

take + time
It takes 2 hours to go to Beijing by plane
It took me 9 hours to come back to SH.
It took me 1 month to learn how to use Amazon
Normally/usually it takes 9h to go to Nanchang
But on Oct 1 my friend took 30h to go Nanchang

wait for something / someone
I wait for the sunset
I waited for him for 10 mins
I wait for the bus
I wait for the subway
I wait for the beginning of the class

wait for something to happen
I waited for him to call me
I waited for the sun to set
I wait for the class to start

on + day / date
We left on Sep 30
I will go to BJ on Monday