VIP Class Notes (Tony)

Read the grammar page for HAD:

https://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tensepastperfsim.html

Review Grammar about HAD,

Vocabulary

That’s a trick question, camo (camouflage) is not a color.

How far along are you in the book?

I’m about 50 pages in to it.

How much of the movie have you watched?

I’m 53 minutes into it.

Oh, sorry to bother you, I’ll let you finish your movie.

stuffy – a room with no air flow, kinda hot and harder to breathe

eg: This room gets stuffy.

dress shirt – a very nice shirt, for a special occasion, like a wedding.

eg: This is not a dress shirt, it’s just my school uniform.

Army – part of the government that will fight for the people

eg: He is wearing an army uniform.

Camouflage – a color or pattern to blend in with the surroundings

eg: You shouldn’t wear green camo in the snow. Because the snow is white and you can’t blend in with the surroundings.

Grammar

Henry gets angry when he doesn’t eat.

I’m doing great

Once the wind blows strongly harder I’m going to fly a kite. / Once the wind picks up, I’m going to fly a kite.

It is raining really hard now.

more bigger?    Bigger

Had done

I had eaten dinner. = I ate dinner. (Just use Simple Past Tense)

I had read the book before I ate dinner.

If I hadn’t gone there, I would have gone home.

If I hadn’t started working here, I wouldn’t have had ( you mei you 有没有) Henry as a student.

Plural – More than one

eg: Don’t forget the plural spelling. +S.

Tell me about a time when you should have studied more.

I had studied more when I was grade 5. because I need to do some exam. I had many class at the time. and I do many exercise. On my first exam I didn’t get a good score and I think I can do better. So I think I have studied more. I hadn’t studied hard before the exam. So I got a bad score. If I had studied more harder I would have gotten a better score. I should study more carefully and harder.

I had studied a lot when I was in grade 5. Because I needed to do some exams. I had many class at the time and I had done many exercises. On my first exam I didn’t get a good score and I think I could do better. So I thought I should study more. I hadn’t studied hard before the exam, so I got a bad score. If I’d studied more harder I would have gotten a better score. I should study more carefully and harder next time.