VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

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Prepositions with Jesse – to, for, at, on, in, with, by…

Vocabulary

verb – dong ci
noun – ming ci
adjective – xing rong ci
adverb – fu ci
vocabulary – dan ci / ci hui
grammar – yu fa
pronunciation – fa yin

Very good / great
Pretty good
Not bad
Just OK / Just so so

Glad to meet you / good to meet you / nice to meet you – hen gao xing ren shi ni

healthy – jian kang

After that = and then
eg. I went to work. After that, I had a coffee.
eg2. I went to work and then I had a coffee.

make up – hua zhuang
eg. I did my make up / I put my make up on

SELF INTRODUCTION

I’m from JiLing but I have lived in Shanghai for 8 years and I work as a nail technician at my own salon. I am interested in fitness, swimming, traveling, and dancing.

Grammar

swim
eg. I swim every day.
swimming – now + noun (名词)
eg. I like swimming. Swimming is good. I am swimming now.

talk / talked / talking / have talked / have been talking / will talk 

nouns
I want a cup of coffee = a = any
I want the cup of coffee = the = this / that
I want my cup of coffee
I want cups of coffee
I want the cups of coffee

I went to a park. The park was beautiful.
The weather is good. = Shanghai’s weather now.

I like coffee. Coffee is good.

This is my own computer / you are my own student
I am by myself / I did it by myself / I use it by myself

What do you do? I work as a nail technician

I learned it before – xue guo

I go to a cafe to buy coffee
I go to a cafe for coffee
I go to a cafe with my friend
I go to a cafe in the morning
I go to a cafe for coffee in the morning with my friend
because my friend is happy with her job in 2018

at – time
on – day
in – month / year

feed – fed 

Speaking exercise

I get up at 11 o’clock. Then, feed my cats and wash my face and brush my teeth and put makeup on. I ate my breakfast at 11:10, durian and bread.

I got up at 11 o’clock because I want / needed / planned to have class. Then, I fed my cats cat food but they don’t like it because they eat it every day. After that, I washed my face for 2 minutes and brushed my teeth and put my makeup on for 10 minutes. I ate durian and bread for breakfast at 11:10.