VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Use some of the vocabulary from today in a story about the Korean bbq restaurant situation. Use past tense.

Do a speaking story but do immediate correction.

we don’t have too much time to do exercise in our daily life so today i decided to play golf. i invited my room mate and her mum to go with me. golf is an exercise we want to try and we think today would not has too much people at the driving range. we hired a coach to teach us. the coach teached us how to use the club for a half hour and we practice by ourself for a while. The practice time is not too long but we still feel a little bit tired. After that when we wanted to leave the sun came out, then we decide to stay at here and take some photos, and we think it’s an interesting experience which we will do next time.

we don’t have too much time to do exercise in our daily lives so today i decided to play golf. i invited my roommate and her mum to go with me. Golf is an exercise we wanted to try and we thought today would not have / there wouldn’t be too many people at the driving range. We hired a coach to teach us and the coach taught us how to swing the club for a half hour and we practiced by ourselves for a while. The practice time was not too long but we still felt a little bit tired. After that when we wanted to leave the sun came out, then we decided to stay here and take some photos, and we think it’s an interesting experience which we will do next time.

Grammar

here = at this place
there = at that place
home = my house
now = at this time
online = on the internet
today = on this day

teach / taught 
feel / felt 

Vocabulary

golf club / tennis racket / baseball bat / table tennis bat / hockey stick 

our phones were almost dead / out of battery / out of power 

split the bill – separate the payments for the bill
eg. we split the bill

go halves – pay half each / eat half each
eg. we can go halves on a new iphone

technique – dong zuo
eg. they taught us the golf swing technique

I thought (today) there wouldn’t be many people there today.

charger – sth to add power to your phone / computer
eg. I didn’t have a charger so my phone died

start cooking / finish cooking / continue cooking 

raw < > cooked 

unripe < > ripe < > overripe
eg. when the banana is unripe, you should wait a few days until it’s ripe

Pronunciation

Golf is an exercise – gol fi sa nexercise 

asked – askt