VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

Write about your best travel experience

Vocabulary

sagging
i.e. Your pants are sagging. ->Your pants are not all the way up.

soccer – football

strand – 缕
i.e. A strand of hair

sack – 布袋
i.e. He has a sack of corn.

slant – wai de
i.e. that building is slant.

relevant – related 相关的

sights – jing dian

up sb’s game – improve

refuel – gu li / ji li

wanderlust – the wish to be in nature

destination – 目的地

knock-out – great

openings – kai ye
i.e. There is a new store opening.

picture-perfect – perfect

feature – has

release – publish

ultimate – the best

rank – pai xu

bucket list – the list of things you want to do before you die

bucket – shui tong

issue – publish

companion – 伴侣

company (n.) – gong si

keep you company – pei ban ni

armchair – sofa

armchair travel – the kind of travel that is not real

I have been lived in four places up to now. The first house was nearby a river which was the important route of shipping. My family was had lived there since when I was the age of zero to three. After that we were moved to the other place because of the building construction拆迁. Many of the people we knew moved with us and we all lived in the same place. (So many people we knew because we were moved together.) The second house is the typical 1990s building. The second house has the typical architecture which was like the 1990s. I finished my grade 3 at there then moved to the next place where I had been (had) lived between 11 to 20. The place holds all of my memories from the past so I like it very much. My whole memorizes of youth were happened at there so I like the house so very much. The last house is the one which we live in now. The house is located nearby the busy street where we can find so many kinds of restaurants. We don’t have a plan to move in ten years.

My memory happened in that house.

The house gave me good memory.

have been doing sth. (past perfect continuous)

have done sth. (past perfect)

be verb – am is are was were

so – very

so …. that

Grammar

present simple – do / is am are

present continuous – doing / is am are doing

past simple – did / had / was were

past continuous – was /were doing
i.e. I was doing my homework this morning.

present perfect – have done

present perfect continuous – have been doing

past perfect – had done

past perfect continuous – had been doing

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.” Lonely Planet said: “The list contains a mix of knock-out new openings, sights that have upped their game, or places more relevant to the way we travel now.”