VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

Next Class Focus

Simplify your sentences
Use the past tense

Homework

Write about your best experience in Japan (use the past tense)

Several parts of Chinese / 10% Chinese students so the teachers arranged a ceremony. They went to the big city to have a dinner at Chinese restaurant. Also they have one Chinese teacher. The members of Chinese students year and year increase.

I hope first my English could have the good improvement and my job and my business can be stable.
And last I help the family everybody happy and health.
The specific target I think I didn’t. I hope my daughter English level could get the best score at school.
The most important is the healthy and happiness for us.

First the students come from a lot of different countries, the environment is more international and she can study English and French and German. It is very international.
Second the teachers came from wonderful schools. They have the wonderful experience about education. There are a lot of sport activities for students. The big difference with the Chinese school is teacher help the kids to think about, not just as the listener. They practice the kids to thinking about everything. Political, history.

Until high school I went to China local school, after I went to Japan I finished my college in Japan. I went to a christian college. the whole students for the girls. The teachers is so kind. Maybe they are all christians. From the regular people it is too kind. My subject is Chinese culture. There are only 2 students from abroad. The school arranged the class just for the 2 students. After the class on of the professors he took us to the TV company because he was a journalist. They introduced a lot of interesting things. We had Chinese dishes.
When I arrived in Japan, the first 2 years I have to master my Japanese.; So I studied at a Japanese international school. at there we only studied the Japanese, after in two years we took the exam and then I went to the college.
At the college I learned a little bit about Bible. before that I don’t have any idea.

People are very polite and more safe compared to china but I felt I was from the outside. I couldn’t fit in.
You couldn’t be accepted. It is quite, you will be always from the outside. Not only foreigner, in Japanese companies always same.
Sometimes one college if she couldn’t be accepted the result is he or she quit from company. In Japan they never say you are fired but they put you in a horrible position and the result is you quit.The civilization, the people only could follow the rules, they can’t break out of the rules.  They respect t


There is a high percentage of Chinese students in the school.  / There are 10% of Chinese students so the teachers arranged a ceremony/ 10% of the students are Chinese so the teachers arranged a ceremony . They went to a big city to have a dinner at a Chinese restaurant. They also have one Chinese teacher.

The number of Chinese students increases from one year to another/ The number of Chinese students increases every year/ yearly.

First/ my first hope is that….. I hope my English can improve well and my job and my business can be stable.
And last I hope everybody in the family can be happy and healthy.
The specific target I think I don’t really have one. I hope my daughter can get the best score at school for English.
The most important thing is health and happiness for us.

First the students come from a lot of different countries, the environment is more international and she can study English and French and German. It is very international.
Second the teachers come/graduated from wonderful schools. They have good experience about/in education. There are a lot of sport activities for students. The big difference with the Chinese schools is that teachers help the kids to think about everything by themselves. They are not just listeners, they are active participants.  They help the kids to think about everything. Political, history. they help the kids to develop their critical thinking skills. / they encourage the kids to make their own opinions

In Chinese schools the students are mostly listening in the class and the teacher just stands in the front and talks and the students don’t have the chance to talk.

Until high school I went to a Chinese  local school, after that I went to Japan and I finished my college in Japan. I went to a christian college. All the students were girls/there were only girls. The teachers were so kind. Maybe because they were all christians. From regular people’s point of view,/for outsiders/ For non christians,  they were too kind. My subject was Chinese culture. There were only 2 students from abroad. The school arranged the class just for the two of us. After the class one of the professors  took us to a TV company because he was a journalist. He introduced a lot of interesting things to us. We also had Chinese dishes.
When I arrived in Japan, during the first 2 years I had to master Japanese. So I studied at a Japanese international school.we only studied Japanese. two years later, we took the exam and then I went to college.
In College I learned a bit about the Bible. Before that I didn’t know anything about it.

Vocabulary

number / how many of ……
The number of students from China increased this year.

member / people who joined
There are 12 members in our club.

to master / to be very good at something
I mastered the past tense last week.

social pressure / pressure from other people around you
Social pressure in Japan is very high.

non-…… (not ….)
Non christians can find it hard to understand the Bible.
It is hard to fit in for non Japanese.

Grammar

descriptions:

Usually start with there is/ there are
There is a cup on the table.
There are more and more Chinese students in her school.