VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Write about your night Sunday night – tell me what you did, how you felt, add details for each thing. Focus on past tense, long sentences using grammar to connect ideas, try to use some of the vocabulary from today.

I stayed at home and cooked my lunch and breakfast, watched an english movie.

I got up at 10 o’clock and then I found / noticed / realised I got / had a cold and I didn’t feel better after 10 minutes so I took / had some medicine and at 11 o’clock I went to cook my lunch and I found there was nothing in the fridge so I asked my neighbour to lend me some food and / so he gave me a sausage and I cooked / fried it with chili sauce. After lunch I took a rest / had a rest until 2 pm and then i went out and came here.

Vocabulary

overworked (adj)
eg. I am overworked now because my boss always pushes me to work every day

overtime (n)
eg. I worked overtime last night until 9PM.

what do you do? – what is your job?

on the way – zai lu shang

subway / metro / train  – di tie

and then = after that / afterward

the chili sauce is very hot 
I like hot food / I like food with chili in it.

borrow = take
lend = give

range (many things) / period (time)
eg. I spent a period of time studying this morning

noticed = to see and know (find)
realised = to think and know (find)

see / look / watch / read
speak / talk / say
hear / listen / listen

I can see you but I’m not looking at you. When you talk to me, I will look at you. I can hear the cars outside but I’m listening to you.

Grammar

i wana to find a foreign company – I wana find / I want to find 

because – reason
but – dan shi
and – continue the subject / verb
so – suo yi
and then – next thing
which – describe the object
who – describe the person