VIP Class Notes (Joe)

It’s really important to say the /ng/ sound clearly. Practice saying words like ‘sing’, ‘bring’ and ‘wing’. Hold your finger against your throat and make sure you can feel the /ng/ sound.

Grammar

Every Monday we have meeting for everybody
Every Monday we have a meeting for everybody
Every Monday we have a general office meeting (upgraded language)

How do you think about Shanghai?
What do you think about something?
How do you feel about something?

Your father paint?
Is your father a painter?

I will meet my friend this evening, who is working as a banker
I will meet my friend who is working as a banker this evening

Another meeting we usually meet for some project
We usually discuss some projects in another meeting

With friends talk about daily life
With friends I talk about daily life

I will have meeting in afternoon
I will have a meeting in the afternoon

I felt a painful body
I felt a little pain
It was very painful

I was used to study ballet
I was used to studying ballet

My body to more relax
My body became more relaxed

How long do you have been in Shanghai?
How long have you been in Shanghai?

Pronunciation

Pain (the same sound in ‘train’ and ‘gain’)
Studying – sta dee jing (make sure you say the /ng/ sound clearly)
relaxed – make sure you say the /t/ sound at the end
museum – mew zi yim

Vocabulary

Museum – The museum has more paintings than the gallery

Pain – noun – feeling – I was in pain from the fall / I felt pain in my shoulder

Painful – adj – characteristic – Falling down was painful / It was painful to walk with my broken leg