VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

“still or sparkling?”

comedian: xi ju yan yuan

sane: normal mind (adj)

insane: crazy
ie. That’s insane!

paRAlysis: tan huan (n)
ie. She was paralysed from the waist down.

born with a silver spoon

Native American – aboriginal

polygamy: 一夫多妻(制)

butt in : interfere with

cultural shock: 文化震荡; 文化碰撞; 文化休克; 文化冲击; 文化冲突

negative connotation: bad meaning on the word
ie. The word “competition” has a negative connotation.

Grammar

cities; treat them as places “location marker”, not S
exception: SH has a large population./long history.

I saw the screen and very little people watched.
I looked/took a look at the screen and I saw there weren’t a lot of people./very few people.

“Something came up” 

Q: Talk about your favorite holiday? A good experience vs. maybe a bad experience?
A: My favorite holiday is summer holiday because it’s long. THere’s a famous sentence-  everybody want to stay forever young. That’s what I want so I can have a 2 month summer vacation… I have to work but I don’t like. I have to make money, I have to support myself. In 2008, I took vacation to Seattle and Vancouver. But actually it was a education vacation, I applied the one-month summer camp in Seattle. My aunt and my uncle have been living there. I have a lot of fun there because I lived in a homestay. There were 4 international students, one come from Mongolia, another came from S.Korea, and 2 Chinese. It was fun because I can lived like a native US family. The host mother and father, they were all over 70. We cooked by ourselves. They adopted 3 black/African-Americans. I think the reason why they wanted to have international students because they wanted to make money.

A: My favorite holiday is the summer holidays because it’s long. THere’s a famous saying/motto/slogan (for companies)–  everybody wants to stay forever young. That’s what I want too so I can have a 2 month summer vacation again… I have to work but I don’t like it(the situation)/to (verb omit). I have to make money, I have to support myself. I remember, In 2008, I took a vacation to Seattle and Vancouver. But actually it was summer camp for school. I applied for/to the one-month summer camp in Seattle. My aunt and my uncle have been living there/live there. I had a lot of fun there because I lived with a homestay. There were 4 international students/of us, one came/is from Mongolia, another came/is from S.Korea, and 2 Chinese. It was fun because I got an opportunity/had the chance to live in a local American family. The host mother and father, they were all over 70. We cooked by ourselves./we are self-sufficient/we are independent. They adopted 3 black/African-Americans. I think the reason why they wanted to accommodate/host international students was because they wanted to make money.

They have a daughter got very seriously disease. I don’t remember the disease name.
Their daughter had a very serious disease, but I forgot what it was.
They have a daughter who was very ill.

Before eat, we need to stand in a circle, we need to …
Before meals, we always stood in a circle and said our prayers.

Most of the time, I believe religion is a good thing. But I cannot understand extremists.

The Christian can choose to same-sex
Some Christians are also LGBTQ.

Macau has a lot of Catholic Churches because of Portugal.
There are a lot of Catholic Churches because of the Portuguese influence.