VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

Today we focused on:

reviewed the time

Speaking exercise

I will make dye my hair and pack my luggage and sleep late.
I sleep at 11pm.
I get up at 6am.
I get up at 9:30am

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I will go to Tonglu nearby HZ.
I will stay at holiday on mountain.
The mountain is 3,000m high / I will stay at an altitude of 3,000
You will have birds noise and blue sky.
Hanzhou has many people. Many people visit HZ.
It is a famous story talk about the west lake.
a snake becomes a woman to meet a handsome man and starts a love story.
The story said the west lake before she meet handsome man.


I will dye my hair black and pack my luggage and sleep late.
I (usually) sleep at 11pm.
I get up at 6am.
on weekends I get up at 9:30am

I will go to Tonglu nearby HZ.

I will stay at a hotel on a mountain. / the mountain has an altitude of 3,000
You will hear the birds and see the blue sky.
Hanzhou has many people. Many people visit HZ.
There is a famous story talk about the west lake.
a snake becomes/turns into a woman to meet a handsome man and starts a love story.
The story talks about the snake living in the west lake before she met the handsome man.

Vocabulary

altitude (n)海拔
The hotel is at an altitude of 3,000
The plane was flying at a high altitude.

attitude (n) 态度
I have a good attitude
The waiter had a bad attitude

snake (n) 蛇
I am afraid of snakes

hill (n) small mountain / 小山
I ran on top of the hill

pack (v) 整理
I need to pack my luggage before the trip

dye   (v) 给染色
I will dye my hair

walk (n/v)
I had a walk at night to clear my head

among : 在。。。中
He is the tallest among my friends
This is my favorite among all my t-shirts

tall (adj) 高
Tom is 195 he is very tall.

pilot (n) : plane driver 飞行员
Tom is a pilot

virus (n) 病毒
The virus is bad for business

Writing exercise

every morning, I get up at the 6AM and that a little early for me, I never sleep late except for the weekend. usually I need making breakfast for my son, he often had breakfast-bread and milk on the way. I feed dog and take my dog for walk for an hour after my son leave home.I would be at the breakfast table at eight, It’s time for me to have breakfast. I do again what I did in the morning after I get off work and come back home at night, and then I can enjoy my time doing everything what I like.


every morning, I get up at 6AM and that is a little early for me, I never sleep late except for the weekend. usually I need  making breakfast for my son, he often has bread and milk on the way for breakfast.
I feed my dog and take my dog for a walk / and I walk my dog for an hour after my son leaves home.
I am at the breakfast table at eight, It’s time for me to have breakfast. I do again what I did in the morning after I get off work and come back home at night, and then I can enjoy my time doing anything I like.

Grammar

need to do something:
I need to make breakfast for my son

everything : all the things
I want to buy everything in the store

anything : one of the things among all of them
I can buy anything in the store

everywhere : all the places
Tom travelled everywhere because he was a pilot

anywhere : one among all the places
We can’t go anywhere because of the virus

half (n) 般
I drank half the bottle

Pronunciation

sky

trip

trap 陷阱

talking about time:

16:13: thirteen past four in the afternoon
06:20 : twenty past six in the morning

you can read the numbers as they are:

9:30 : nine thirty
11:15 : eleven fifteen

or you can express them with past and to (British way)
first read the minutes then the hours

if minutes are from 1 to 30 use past
6:15 : fifteen past six / a quarter past six
8:22 : twenty two past eight
9:30 = halfpast nine

if minutes are from 31 to 59 use to with the difference till the next hour (60-minutes = time said)
8:50 : ten to nine
7:48 : twelve to eight
10:45 : fifteen to eleven / a quarter to eleven

if minutes are 00 say o’clock 
8:00 : it is eight o’clock

special cases:

0:15 = quarter
0:30 = half