VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

What do you like and dislike about Shanghai? Would you choose to live here when you get older? Why or why not?

i went to australia and theres summer vacation and i went there for a short time study in the local school and i go to a girl school called lorenta college for a week and i also go to many place of attraction. i study with other students and i feel the class is very boring. that school is quite different from here and they have less time to study and their classes very easy to learn especially the maths. the kids are nice and i just dont like that school. they give me an interview and like test my english level and they let me go to that school. i went that school one week before i went to the international school to study english for a week and that time my teachers each of them they took me to many place like beach and shopping centres.

i went / traveled / took a trip / went on a trip / went on holiday to australia and they were in summer vacation and i went there for a short time to study in the local school which was located in Adelaide and i went to a girls school called lorenta college for a week and i also went to many tourist attractions. i studied with other students but i felt the class was very boring. that school was quite different from schools here and they had less time to study and their classes were very easy to learn especially maths. the kids were nice but i just didn’t like that school. they gave me an interview and tested my english level and they let me go to that school. i went there for one week before going to the international school to study english for a week and at that time each teacher / each of my teachers took me to many places like the beach and shopping centres.

past tense
plural
chinese sentences
too many ands

use conjunctions to give logical connection between your ideas

Vocabulary

which was when…?

together – combined 

all the things – everything

acupuncture – zhen jiu
eg. my mum is studying acupuncture for fun

recent time – recently

let / allow
get / ask
make / force
my mum lets me play computer games
my mum gets me to wash my hands before dinner
my mum makes me do my homework

coed – both genders together at school

change a school – go to another school

Grammar

busy with my studies

at – a point in time (short time)
on – days
in – months / years / period

i don’t like read English book – reading