VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

Homework

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2010/201016-ultimate-travel-list.html

Finish the reading and summarize and reflect

Needs more review

The article said 52 percent young people are at home with their parents, and recently the number of young people moving back to their parents house has been rising, because of the coronavirus. On In my opinion, if you just graduated, you don’t have a stable job and don’t have enough salary to afford the cost of renting an apartment, you can liveing with parents. Although, it does not mean you can be a “Neet group”. Once you have enough money, you should to be an independent adult. I think parents are also need time and space to enjoy themselves / their lives, they have spent too much time on bringing up their kids. As an adult, we should have the ability to planing our life, manage money ,take care of ourselves and make our life get better.

Grammar

SVO 
Subject + verb. + object

to + verb (base form)

His sister have 30 or 40 years old -> His sister is 30 or 40 years old

Some kids ask some candy for their neighborhood -> Some kids ask for some candy from their neighbors in their neighborhood.
ask for sth.
i.e. Can you ask the waiter for some water?

take shower with water 
the water to take showers with 

Vocabulary

retirement money – tui xiu jin

cousin – someone who is not directly related to us

brother or sister – have the same mom and dad

tradition – chuan tong

military parade – yue bing

parade – you xing

establishment – the completion

adapt to – 适应

focus on sth. / focus on doing sth.

guide – 导游

guidebook – 旅行指南

ultimate – the best

bucket list – a list of things you wish to do before you die

rank – 排序

unmissable (adj.) – cannot be missed

issue (v.) – publish

companion (n.) – someone or something to be by your side always 伴侣

armchair (n.) – sofa

armchair travel – 云旅游

refuel (v.) – 再次激发

fuel (v.) – put gas in a car (加油)

wanderlust – the wish to be in nature (漫游癖)

feature (v.) – 特有
i.e. This new car features a new radio.

destination – 目的地

picture-perfect (adj.) – something or someone looks good from every angle, in every picture

in order of – 根据sth排序

brilliant (adj.) – very very good

brilliance (n.) – 优秀

Speaking exercise

A: What is your favorite holiday?

My favorite holiday is National Day. Because the festival holiday has have seven days and it isn’t doesn’t like Spring Festival spring daysDuring Spring Festival, I spring days need to visit more relatives and I don’t have enough rest / time to rest. So I like National Day.

For the most time, I just stay at home and read book. Sometimes I will walk with my dog and help my mom do some housework. I will spend some time with my friends.

The National Days is celebrated for China build up. -> The National Day is to celebrate the establishment of China.

A: Tell me about a book you recently read.

I like reading some novels that are is easy to understand easily. I read a book named “Saharah Desert”. The book described the author with her husband living in the Saharah Desert. And the area is very poor and the people there are very rude. At In the beginning, their life was is very difficult. For example, they don’t have enough water to drink or take shower with. As time went by, the author began to adapt to the life. They bought buy a car and always / often usually to traveled on weekends. And she used more beautiful things to decorate their house. The house became the most beautiful house in Saharah. They also had have more troubles. Her neighbors always to borrowed some things but never returned. She organized neighbor’s kids /the kids in the neighborhood‘s kids to learn together. But they found find these kids are not focused on reading books. They just focused on the author’s their homes’ furniture or some toys. And finally, some changes happened in the area happen some changes and she had have to leave the area.

Reading

A travel guidebook company has released its list of the best places on Earth to visit. It is the Lonely Planet’s “Ultimate Travel List”. It ranks 500 of the must-see places to add to your bucket list. It is only the second time this list of unmissable travel experiences has been issued.

The guidebook company said its guide is, “designed to be a companion to your armchair travels or the tool to refuel your wanderlust“. It added that the book, “features more than 200 new destinations in a picture-perfect wish-list, each ranked in order of brilliance.”