VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

encyclopedia: 百科全书

blonde: blonde-haired people

dye: change color of something

careless: by accident, because you didn’t pay attention

prosecutor: 检察官

vendor: small business people who sell things

browser: the “app” that you use to view web pages

hoax: lying scheme

save up: to store

Speaking exercise

Do you know what are we learning now?
Do you know what we are learning now?

I even fell asleep in my English class.
I even feel like sleeping in my English class.
I even feel sleepy.

In the final exam of math, I get the first one in the class.  It’s the tallest score. The full score is 102.
In the math final exam, I am the best one (means best student) in the class./I got the highest/best score.  The full score is 102./ I got 100 out of 102.

He has plenty of things to do … so he hasn’t got time to go back home.
He has too much to do/too much leftover work so he has stay/work overtime.

When you are very near…
When you are very close to that town.

He tries to own the town..
He tries to takeover the town.

Jerry is cooler than Tom. Tom is not as cool as Jerry.

The dinosaurs who lived in the water..
The marine dinosaurs…

I always run from there to here from here to there..
I always run back and forth/in circles.

since the first time I came to my home, there’s nobody downstairs.
There hasn’t been anybody living downstairs since I first went to my home.

When I’m having class, I can get gifts. I have many energy to have class.
When I have class, I can get gifts. So then I have lots of energy to go to class.

Pronunciation

falls – no “er” sound

weird –  we+”er” sound