VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Use the words from today in some writing. Talk about some trip you have had recently.

Vocabulary

In June I went / traveled / took a trip to Thailand and it / which was very / really / so / incredibly / amazingly beautiful / pretty / stunning but / however everyday was rainy so it was very tiring / exhausting. the best season to travel there is April. because / as / since my school was in winter vacation / holiday. i saw / spotted a shark, but that day the sea / water / ocean was very dirty and it was a rainy day / it was raining all day so my father’s pants came off / fell off.

i woke / get up / awoke at 12 / noon and i didn’t eat breakfast because every day i don’t eat breakfast every day.

simple < > complex / complicated
easy < > hard 

simple – there are not many steps / details involved
eg. walking is hard for a baby… but walking is quite / very simple.

correct me – gai zheng

noon = 12 at lunchtime
afternoon = after 12
8pm = night
middle of the night = 12 at night = midnight
4am = morning

found – noticed / realised / spotted 

realised = to think and then know
noticed = to see and then know
spotted = to find something with your eyes

so so = not bad = just ok 

exhausted / exhausting
tired / tiring
annoyed / annoying
bored / boring
eg. the loud kids are very annoying so I am annoyed.

so / which means that 
eg. I got up late today which means that / so I was late for breakfast.

to take a trip = travel
to take a holiday / vacation

describe = xing rong

I have a friend. She is tall.

I have a friend who is tall.
who = lets you make 1 sentence, and describes a person.
which = lets you make a 1 sentence, and describes a thing / time / place
eg. I have a computer which is expensive.
eg2. I have a computer which I bought at Apple Store.

expects – to think it will happen / should happen
eg. my mum expects me to come to study English

Grammar

I go to Japan

I went to Japan
I will go to Japan / I am going to go to Japan
I am going to Japan

i went there with my father because he had to get a tan at a tanning salon. I went there by taxi which took about 15 minutes so I was happy. When my father was tanning, I went shopping and I bought a tshirt which is white. We finished at 7 and went home with my mother and father because my mum had to cook dinner for us which she doesn’t like.

because
which
if
when
but
so
and

Pronunciation

specifically – speh sif ick lee
journal – jer nal