VIP Class Notes (Dimple)

note: pay attention to third-person singular.

i.e. He goes to the park. –>correct

i.e. He go to the park. –> WRONG –>because? third-person singular!

Speaking exercise

Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself.

I’m Richard. I’m nine years old. I have an account and I make some videos. I make some game videos and some green fish mask videos.

There are seven people in my family. They are my father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandpa, grandma. I have a friend is like is making video with me. She always chat with me. She is funny. And I like Lanish and Guonish. I can speak Guonish in a full sentence, like “Today I go to a supermarket to buy a kiwi”. I teach all my classmate Guonish and Lanish. But many classmates says “yas-mo-la” wrong. I watch Tiktok one hour in a day. So I learn. I like playing Minecraft. I made a server and there are many people using it.

revised:

I’m Richard. I’m nine years old. I have an account (on Meipai) and I make some videos. I make some game videos and some green fish mask videos.

There are seven people in my family. They are my father, mother, grandfathers, and grandmothers, grandpa, grandma. I have a friend is like who is making videos with me. She always chats with me. She is funny. And I also like Lanish and Guonish. I can speak Guonish in a full sentence, like “Today I go to a supermarket to buy a kiwi”. I teach all my classmates Guonish and Lanish. But many classmates says “yars-mu-lar” wrong. I watch Tiktok one hour in a day. So I learn/ That’s how I learned. I also like playing Minecraft. I made a server and there are many people using it.

Mr. Bean wants to camp outside. But his tent is old. And the cat breaks his tent. So he goes to buy a new tent. He goes into the mall but he meets a mean security guy. He steals Teddy’s hat and changes the tent. So Mr. Bean goes into the car and the inflatable boat fill up the car. And Mr. Bean get hurt. And the car drives to a place which can buy cars for camping. But Mr. Bean just has 5 pounds, so he buys the smallest cart. Mr. Bean goes back to home and he sees the old woman’s small house and he has an idea. He use a ladder to bring the house up and put the small house in the cart and drives it to a hill. But he meets again the mean security guy. And takes a dog. At night, Mr. Bean always has an idea. He uses some sandwiches to let the dog go to the small house. And he put the inflatable boat under the security guy’s car and push it to the lake. And put the small house back to the garden. But he forget takes the dog out. So the second day, the old woman hit the dog and comes to hit Mr. Bean.

revised:

Mr. Bean wants to camp outside. But his tent is old. And the cat breaks his tent. So he goes to buy a new tent. He goes into the mall but he and meets a mean security guy. He steals Teddy’s hat and changes the tent that Mr. Bean bought. So When Mr. Bean goes into the car ,and the inflatable boat fills up the car. And Mr. Bean gets hurt. And the car drives to arrives at a place which/where can people buy cars for camping. But Mr. Bean just has 5 pounds, so he buys the smallest cart. Mr. Bean goes back to home and he sees the old woman’s small house and he has an idea. He uses a ladder to bring the house up and put the small house in the cart and drives it to a hill. But Then he meets again the mean security guy again. And takes He has a big dog. At night, Mr. Bean always has an another idea. He uses some sandwiches to let the dog go to the small house. And he puts the inflatable boat under the security guy’s car and pushes it to the lake, and put the small house back to the garden. But he forgets to takes the dog out. So the second next day, the old woman hits the dog and comes to hit Mr. Bean.

Vocabulary

account – zhang hao

sentences – ju zi

savvy – good at something

emotion – gan qing

agreement – a decision that multiple people agree on

bilingual – in two languages

destroy – to break something completely

security – bao an

inflatable – able to inflate

fill up – chong man

lure – attract, tempt

cabin – little wooden house, usually sits in the backyard