VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

Homework

Read page 94-97 and look up any new words and summarize the story

Today we focused on:

Read “Diary of a wimpy kid 4” page 91-93

Vocabulary

rural – not very rich and not very developed
i.e. The town is very rural and not very well-developed.

switch – exchange
switch out – to change sth into sth else
i.e. I switched out the sugar with salt.

spill the beans – to leak information
i.e. I may have spilled the beans about her secret.

get grounded – to not be allowed to go outside (a type of punishment parents use on their children)
i.e. I don’t want to get grounded because I have a party I want to go to.

pal – friend
pen pal – bi you
i.e. He is my pen pal and I like to write to him about my life.

adjust – change
i.e. I want to adjust the style of my hair.

attitude – tai du
i.e. She has a bad attitude about studying.

stamp – you piao
i.e. I need a stamp to mail this letter.

park – to stop a car in a spot
i.e. I need to park my car on the street.

ambulance – 120 car
i.e. Call an ambulance! He is hurt!

warm up – re shen

stuck – ka zhu
i.e. His head is stuck in between his legs.

injured – shou shang de

Speaking exercise

Mr Bean want to stop his car but no space can stop, and he drive near the hospital and the hospital’s car can’t open. And mr bean want to feed ducks and he sees a bad guy and they want to also want to feed ducks, first just a little bread, and finally mr bean put all the bread in the water and bad guy think mr bean win. They also want to run very fast and they go there and it starts. Mr Bean warms up and he can’t walk. he become good and he go back and he run. and the bad guy is very fast so he runs very slowly and mr bean runs a little fast. me bean is very tired and that guy is tired too. They also drive the car, the first bad guy crashed into a mail box and the car driver put them in the hospital and mr bean and he sees number one is run in the hospital and he go with the umber one and he sees many people will come, he put the arrow in another way and they go in a bus and mr bean run. The dog is eating sth and number one jump out to the dog and mr bean step on the dog and the dog is very angry. The dog running for mr bean and mr bean runs faster than number one. So he wins the competition but get injured. And the bad guy at the hospital they become good friend.

Revised:
Mr Bean wanted to park his car but there was no space to park, so he drove near the hospital and the ambulance’s door could not open. Mr Bean wanted to feed the ducks and he saw a bad guy. The bad guy also wanted to feed the ducks. First, Mr Bean put a little bread in the river and the bad guy saw so he put more bread. And Mr Bean saw it and was angry so he put all his bread in the river. And the bad guy left and saw a road sign and he thought he could become the number one runner in the competition. But Mr Bean saw it too. They both join the competition. Mr Bean warms up and he does too much and he puts his head between his legs. And the competition starts, but Mr Bean could not run because he got his head stuck in his legs. Finally he got his head unstuck and he runs very fast. And he is very tired so he drives the car very fast. He sees the number one runner and got out of the car to run with number one. But number one is too fast, Mr Bean could not catch up. Finally, they saw a dog was eating. Number one jumped over the dog, but Mr Bean stepped on the dog. So the dog got very angry and chased Mr Bean. And Mr Bean runs faster so he won the competition. But he got injured and had to go to the hospital.