VIP Class Notes 24th April (Jesse) [W / S]

Write a story using the words from today. Try to make long sentences, connecting ideas together.

Vocabulary

How are you? / How are you going? / How are you doing? / How’s it going? / How’ve you been?
Great < Really good < Pretty good < Good < Not bad < Just OK < Not great.
How about you? / What about you? / And you? / You?

shift work

on duty – to be working
on call – you’re not working, but you’re available

care about her
care for her
eg. I had to stay home to care for her.

sorry? what do you mean?
I don’t know what you mean

railway – on the train / metro

‘scuse me

polite – li mao

he had a stroke

yesterday i went to hospital to visit him

diamond (60th) anniversary
eg. they had their 60th anniversary 10 years ago

I did it and I liked it = I enjoyed it 

want (can control) / hope (can’t directly control) / wish (maybe impossible)

I want to buy a car next year
I hope I can buy a car next year
I wish I had a car now

amazing / incredible / fantastic = fei chang hao
beautiful / stunning / really pretty = piao liang

crowded – too many people

thieves – people who steal things

Pronunciation

8:30 – “eight thirty”

sentences – “sen ten sez”

Last year I went to Japan. This is my first time travel in japan. It’s so cold. The snow is so beautiful and the hot spring. In hot spring the snow is falling on my hair, on my shoulder, the water is hot, the air is so cold. I can see the lake in hot spring, the scene is beautiful. I stay in Hokkaido for 6 days.The cake is Hokkaido is really good. I like cake but I think if I eat too much cake I will fat so I give up.

Last year I went to Japan which was my first time traveling / to travel in japan. It was so cold and the snow there was so beautiful and the hot spring was very relaxing. When I was in the hot spring, the snow was falling on my hair, and on my shoulders. The water was hot, and the air was so cold. I could see the lake from the hot spring, which was very / really / so beautiful. I stayed in Hokkaido for 6 days and I really enjoyed the cake there. I love cake but I think if I eat too much cake I will get fat so I gave up.

Grammar

and – continue subject
to – reason + verb
for – reason + noun
because – reason + sentence
which – describe a thing
who – describe a person
but – dan shi
so – suo yi
with – he / together

My husband was a security officer in expo 2010. I think he has a expo complex, so he hoped to visit the exop in Milan.In the summer vacation of 2015,My family went to France and Italy. Paris is my favorite city.I like the buildings and streets of it. We visited the Louver, the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles and got sight a large number of art.Canners is a sea town in southern France, it has a deferent scence.French are not so friendly, they like to speak French .I just know a word in French,which is bonjour.In many times,I had to use my body languages for communion.

My husband was a security officer in the 2010 expo and I think he has an expo complex, so he wanted to visit the expo in Milan. For my summer vacation in 2015, my family went to France and Italy. Paris is my favorite city because the buildings and streets are really beautiful. We visited the Louver, the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles and got a sight of a large number of artwork. Canners is a town by the sea in southern France, it has a different feeling to other places in France. French people are not so friendly, and they like to only speak French .I just know a word in French, which is bonjour. Many times, I had to use my body language for communication.