VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S]
Homework
What is your favorite number?
Speaking exercise
Chinese like 8 or 9, we prepare 8 cold dishes and 8 hot dishes and 2 snacks.
Chinese people don’t like number 4, because the number 4 pronunciation is similar to death. / 4 sounds similar to death
8 sounds similar to bring more money, 9 sounds similar to bringing luck for a long time
520 sounds similar to I love you and people buy flowers and give red envelopes to their lover.
214 is similar to 520 , they are both love festivals.
1111 is a shopping festival for single people to celebrate their freedom
Chinese like the number 8 or 9 because is brings good luck. We prepare 8 cold dishes and 8 hot dishes and 2 snacks.
Chinese people don’t like number 4, because the number 4 pronunciation is similar to death. / 4 sounds similar to death
8 sounds similar to bring more money, 9 sounds similar to bring luck for a long time
520 sounds similar to I love you and people buy flowers and give red envelopes to their lover.
214 is similar to 520 , they are both love festivals.
1111 is a shopping festival for single people to celebrate their freedom
Writing exercise
This spring festival is family days, because of the coronavirus we stayed as home as possible and so I had spent more time to accompanied my husband and son and I really enjoyed this wonderful time.
Recently I feel sleep quality are good than before, I found cooking very relaxing, At home it has become one of my hobbies to cook as many good food as possible with my family. When I finished cooking I always take the picture to share my Wechat moments. so my cooking increased by 100% in this months.
This spring festival is a family festival  / family reunion , because of the coronavirus we stayed (at) home as mush as possible and so I spent more time to accompany / I spent more time with my husband and son and I really enjoyed this wonderful time.
Recently I feel my sleep quality is better than before / recently I sleep better than before.
I found cooking very relaxing/ cooking makes me relaxed, At home it has become one of my hobbies to cook as many good dishes as possible/ a lot of good food with my family.
When I finish cooking I like to take a picture of every dish and share them on my Wechat moments.
so my cooking skills/ability increased by 100% in these months. / in the last few months
Vocabulary
freedom (n)
I have a lot of freedom because I am single
free(adj)
I am free this afternoon
feel free to call me anytime
cold dish(es) 冷èœ
We like to eat cold dishes with beer in summer
skill (n) : ability
I improved my cooking skills last month
skilled / skillful (adj) : having a good ability
Tom is a skilled painter.
Jesse is skilled at doing short videos
Tom is skillful.
skillfully (adv)
Tom cooks skillfully
Eric drives very skillfully
adjective (adj) 形容è¯
tall is an adjective
adverb (adv) 副è¯
skillfully is an adverb
whose è°çš„
whose computer is that? -> this is Tom’s computer
reunion (n) :Â get together
I went to a school reunion with my old classmates
situation (n) 情况
Because of the virus many people are in a bad situation
to run : è·‘æ¥ ï¼ ç®¡ç†
I run 1km at night
I run a taobao store
the new CEO runs the company very well
exception 例外
We don’t work during the new year but doctors have to work. Doctors are an exception.
Grammar
comparative
short words-> +er
short -> shorter
cheap -> cheaper
Taobao is cheaper than amazon
long words -> more + word
expensive -> more expensive
difficult -> more difficult
Running a shop on Amazon is more difficult this year because of the virus
exceptions:
good -> better
bad -> worse
Tom is better than me at learning languages
The situation in the USA is worse than in China.
we stayed as home as possible -> we stayed home as mush as possible
cooking is relaxing
cooking makes me relaxed
this book is interesting
I am interested in this book
dish ä¸€ç›˜èœ (countable)
We ordered 5 dishes at the restaurant
We prepared many dishes for the Chinese new year.
food (uncountable)
we don’t have much food.
Pronunciation
snake 蛇
I was born in the year of the snake
snack å°åƒ
I eat snacks before dinner
cold
cool
single
Tom is still single (because he is too simple)
simple
tom is too simple  (Tom是傻å)(-)
I like to keep things simple( + )
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