VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Write a diary about what you did today at home, with your family. Introduce your son to me.

Think about: long sentences, past tense.

Vocabulary

How are you? / How’s it going? / How’re you doing?

5 – Great / really good
4 – pretty good / good
3 – fine / not bad
2 – Just ok / Ok
1 – Not great / not very good

And you? / what about you? / How about you?

Did you have a good day? / Have you had a good day? / Good day?
Yes, pretty good.

What do you do? / What do you do for work?
I am a Researcher in the CDC / I work in research.

Where do you work?
I work in Huangpu district

How long have you worked there for?
I have worked there for 12 years

What do you like about your job?
I like that my job is easy / I like that I don’t have much pressure in my job

I don’t have any money < > I have a lot of money

Many
I have many friends – I have so many friends – I don’t have many friends – How many friends do you have?
Much / a lot of
I have a lot of money – I have so much money – I don’t have much money – How much money do you have?

I need to do < > I don’t need to do
I like this < > I don’t like this

I have a cup of coffee < > I don’t have a cup of coffee
I have been to Japan < > I haven’t been to Japan

have got < >  haven’t got
have < > don’t have

track – 400m circle
eg. I walk around an outdoor track

same – yi yang
different – bu yi yang
similar – xiang

opposite – fan yi ci

how do you spell this word?
how do you say (chinese word) in English?

idea – xiang fa

on the road – say this when you’re traveling by road to another city

on the way – zai lu shang
eg. I’m on the way to work

too fat / very fat
too = more than enough / more than ok
very = a lot

I got up at 6 o’clock and then made the bed for 5 minutes. I went to work with my son. On the way, I bought breakfast for us which was radish steamed buns. I didn’t buy meat steamed buns because my son is too fat. I worked in the laboratory while my son played iPad games in my office.

I got up at 6 o’clock and then made the bed for 5 minutes. After 1 and a half hours, I went to work with my son and on the way, I bought breakfast for us which was steamed radish buns. I didn’t buy steamed meat buns because my son is too fat. I worked in the laboratory while my son played iPad games in my office.

Pronunciation

restaurant – “res tront”