VIP Class Notes (Vicki)
Speaking exercise
Prompt Category – Place
detail about the physical appearance of the place
order of description: front to back/ top to bottom / bottom to top / left to right / right to left
location of the place
how the place makes you feel
PART 2
Describe a home (e.g flat or house) that you would like to live in.
You should say:
where it would be
what type of home it would be
who you would like to live with
and explain why you would like to live in this (kind of) home.
I would like to live in a house it’s like an apartment in city center. It will be convenient to everywhere, it must have a subway station or bus station. In my house, I want to make a shoes wall because I’m a shoes collector and I think this my favorite part in my house. It does not need to be so big, but need feel warm. I think maybe my wife and my kid will live with me in the future. In the door, we can see a big living room and a big TV in the wall. And we have like PS4 or XBOX on top of the drawers. Because I like play games and I would want to play games with my wife and my kid in the future. And inside the bedroom, we would have a big bed. Moreover, we can have a projector and we can use projector to watch movie on the wall because projector can be big size to watch which can give you a better visual impact. When I was 10, I used to imagine my house in the future, what’s to be like. And I think I would make it happen in the future. So that’s my ideal house to live in.
Revised:
I would like to live in a house it’s like an apartment in city center. It will be convenient to go to everywhere, it must have a subway station or bus station nearby. In my house, I want to have make a shoes wall for shoes because I’m a shoe collector and I think this will be my favorite part in my house. It does not need to be too big, but need to make me feel warm. I think maybe my wife and my kid will live with me in the future. In the door, we can see a big living room and a big TV on the wall. And we will have like PS4 or XBOX on top of the drawers. Because I like to play games and I would want to play games with my wife and my kid in the future. And inside the bedroom, we would have a big bed. Moreover, we can have a projector and we can use the projector to watch movies on the wall because the image being projected projector can be big size to watch which can give you a better visual impact. When I was 10, I used to imagine what my house would be like in the future, what’s to be like. And I think I would make it happen soon. So that’s my ideal house to live in.
Vocabulary
science-fiction
adrenaline – 肾上腺素
adrenaline rush
ride – 游乐设施
mine (v.) – 采矿
caracole – 旋转木马
dizzy – yun
turkey – huo ji
parade – you xing
wand – mo zhang
what did you take away from your experience
relatives – qin qi
I went once before
roller coaster – guo shan che
I very like to play -> I like to play very much
I’m numbed by all the experience
numb (adj.) – ma bi – when you lose feeling
i.e. I am numb about it.
numbing spicy – ma la
Disney is more like a park for me. —> Disney gives me a feeling of a park more.
type – kind
must do / must be / must have
base form of verbs
need to do sth.
DIRECTION PREP
on / on top of / above – shang mian
under / at the bottom of / underneath / below – xia mian
nearby / beside / near / next to – pang bian
on the left / on the right
inside / in / within – li mian
Homework
Practice the 5 prompts from last week
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