VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Review the words and grammar from today & write about your day today. Remember past tense.

go – went
eg. I went to Japan yesterday
eg2. I go to Japan every month
leave / go – left / gone
eg. Where is Karen? She left
eg2. She leaves at 5 o’clock every day

see / look / watch / read
see = ability to find sth with your eyes (neng li)
look = what you do with your eyes
watch = moving / focus
read = to look at words

hear – ability
listen – what you focus on with your eyes

then / and then / after that
eg. I went to a place and then I went home

today I get up at 11 o’clock because today is my holiday and then I eat breakfast and coffee so i feeling good and then i go out to see my business friends and then we talking about the next year’s plan and our factory and then i go to school to study English. After I want to go hospital to check my eyes and then I want to go to drink something with my friends and then I want to drinking wine in the night because i feel so tired these days, and then I want to go home to sleep.

today I got up at 11 o’clock because today is the weekend / a holiday. After I got up, I had breakfast and coffee so i felt good. Then i went out to see my business friends and then we talked about the next year’s plan / the plan of / for next year and our factory. After that, i came to school to study English. After this, I want to go to hospital to check my eyes and then I want to go to drink something / go to have some tea with my friends and then I want to have a drink at night because i feel so tired these days. After having a drink, I want to go home to sleep.

Grammar

I go – normal time
I went – past time – you know which time
I will go – future time
I am going – now
I have been – past time – you don’t care which time
eg. I go to Japan every year. I have been there 3 times. Last time, I went to Tokyo.

in the morning / afternoon / evening
during the day
at night

at – point (short)
on – longer (day)
in – longest (month / year / period)

verbs – what time am I talking about?
nouns – which one / how many?

the – obvious (dang ran) / specific (te ding)
a – 1 / any
How is the weather today?
I went to a / the party last night

go / come
go – any other place
come – the place you are at now

get – got
come – came 
walk – walked
work – worked
drink – drank
wake – woke 
speak – spoke
eat – ate
have – had
feel – felt 

I am studying English
Studying English is very fun
Coffee is very good
Karen is very nice
After class, I want to go out
After studying, I want to go out

Vocabulary

wine – red wine / white wine
alcohol – jiu jing
eg. I want to have some alcohol

today I got up / woke up / got out of bed at 11 o’clock / AM / in the morning because / as / since / due to the fact that today is the weekend / a holiday. After I got up / Afterwards, I had breakfast and coffee / I had English breakfast and coffee for breakfast so / therefore i felt good.