Demo Class Notes (Yee – Ally)

Vocabulary

worry: 担心

graduate school/studies/master’s: Yan jiu sheng
ie. I have been interested in directing documentaries since graduate school./since my master’s

destination: 目的地

gorilla: 大猩猩(产于非洲);

envy: 嫉妒; 羡慕; 忌妒

COVID: xinguan

specifically: 特定的 确定的
ie. Do you want to study specifically for the IELTS test?

memorable: 记忆深刻的

narrow/ wide:  窄/宽

cliff: 悬崖

ropes: 绳子

metal:铁的

lame/lousy:糟糕的

Grammar

lonely: sad because you’re alone
alone: by yourself

who phrase – describes the person before this phrase
ie. I am a girl who likes to go shopping a lot.
ie. She is a girl who likes to travel.

since: from what time

“there have” = wrong
有没有 = there be, have = 拥有 = for people
ie. There is, there are, there was, there isn’t …
ie. There is a coffee on the table.
ie. I have a coffee.

Speaking exercise

“Do you have a single type?”

I shoot some women. They are lonely live. Only herself.
I shoot women who live alone.

“since when?”
I have been in SH since 2015.
I have been in SH since 2018.
I have been interested in directing/films since 7 years ago.

You can travel to world.
-> You can travel around the world.
-> You can travel to countries around the world

We were shooting gorillas.

Hotel take away to here shooting gorillas.
This hotel show the magazine.
This magazine is about traveling so the hotel was shown in the magazine.

We’re 3 people to here.
We have 3 people on our team.
There are 3 people/3 of us who went there.

because my work need

I want to the university in Czech.
I want to go to a university in Prague.

Did you take the IELTS test yet?

sometimes have translator people together
sometimes translators are (to be = verb) there at the set.

“Tell me about a memorable shoot?”
We are ever cross the bridge in the forest. This bridge only … wide… 30 cm…  I don’t shooting in the here. I’m very afraid.  … don’t … This bridge very long.

In Africa, we crossed/had to cross a bridge in the forest. This/The bridge is (v) only 30 cm wide.  I didn’t shoot there. I was very afraid.  This bridge is 200m very long.

“How long were you there for?” = “how long did you stay there?”