VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

In China，tea is as important as Coffee in the western countries.Most Chinese enjoyed drinking tea(green tea,wulong tea,etc…).Tea is good for our health.As we know tea has a spacial taste.It can clean bowels,prevent all kinds of cancers and so on.Tea culture is profoundly famous profound know knowledges in China even all over the world.It’s a marvellous drink.

Tell me about your favorite childhood memory

play with my cousin and went to a park in Nichuan and go shopping with my grandmother in farmer’s market

When I was little, I was like a boy, always fighting. I remember in the kindergarten, I was fighting with a boy because he stole my pencil. I didn’t tell the teacher, I hit beat his nose and his nose bled drop blood. and teacher told my grandparents and they scolded me.

math teacher did not like me very much and she always told my parents some bad things about for me. and my parents will beat me all the time. because i like english class, because english teacher was my friend. she always listened me and others did not. and then the literature teacher. in my school, i was like some chinese literature…

Vocabulary

bleed (v.) – bled (past simple)

scold – to yell
i.e. My parents scold me when I am being naughty.

principal – xiao zhang
i.e. She has some relationship with the principal.

politics – zheng zhi
i.e, I liked my politics teacher.

dissect – jie po
i.e. I dissected a fish in school.

specimen – 标本
i.e. I made the fish organs into specimens.

forensic specialist – fa yi zhuan jia
i.e. I want to be a forensic specialist at the police station.

Read this article and write down your reflection 

We are all aware of the damaging pollution that’s created by driving petrol and diesel vehicles. Many of the world’s cities are clogged with traffic, creating fumes containing gases such as nitrogen oxides. The solution for a cleaner, greener future could be electric vehicles. But how optimistic should we be?

There was much excitement last year when the UK government announced it will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. But is that easier said than done? The road to global traffic being totally electric is still a long way off. Currently, battery life is an issue – a fully charged battery won’t take you as far as a full tank of petrol. There are also limited numbers of charging points to plug an EV into.

Of course, technology is always improving. Some of the biggest tech companies, like Google and Tesla, are spending huge amounts of money developing electric cars. And most of the big car manufacturers are now making them too. Colin Herron, a consultant on low-carbon vehicle technology, told the BBC: “The big leap forward will come with solid state batteries, which will appear first in mobile phones and laptops before they progress to cars.” These will charge more quickly and give cars a bigger range.

Cost is another issue that may deter people switching to electric power. But some countries offer incentives, such as cutting prices by reducing import taxes, and not charging for road tax and parking. Some also provide exclusive lanes for electric cars to be driven on, overtaking traditional cars which might be stuck in jams. These kinds of measures have made Norway the country with the most electric cars per capita at more than thirty electric cars per 1000 inhabitants.

But Colin Herron warns that ‘electric motoring’ doesn’t mean a zero-carbon future. “It’s emission-freemotoring, but the car has to be built, the battery has to be built, and the electricity does come from somewhere.” Maybe it’s time to think about making fewer journeys or using public transport.