VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Write about whatever you like but keep it simple in terms of vocabulary. Focus on the grammar problems from today, and try to make different kinds of sentence like last time. 

I got up late naturally on Saturday morning and I felt refreshed. After had a simple breakfast, I started to prepare for the lunch soup since it would take a long time to cook and I have bought the ingredients last night. I washed the pig bones with the boiling water twice to get rid of the blood to make sure the soup is fresh and not fishy and then just put them into the stewpot with water. Then I started to tidy up my room, mop the flooring, wipe the dust, etc. while the soup was cooking. It was nice and sunny day! So, I decided to go out after the lunch. I went to my one of my favorite parks which was the Century park. The park is amazing/wonderful/great in this season. There were some trees and natural grass with yellow leaves along the river. The tall trees and blue sky were reflected on the river. There were no any fences along the river and it was convenient to get much closer to the nature. I felt to be integrated (merged with) into nature in that moment and felt fully relaxed. It is so hard to find this kind of places in the city. Most of parks are not enough harmony and there are lots of scenery made and created by human instead of the nature itself.
1. I got up late naturally on last Saturday morning and I felt refreshed.
On last Saturday morning, when I got up naturally it was already very late and I felt refreshed.
On last Saturday morning, I felt refreshed after I got up late to have enough sleeping.

2. I washed the pig bones with the boiling water twice to get rid of the blood to make sure the soup is fresh and not fishy.
In order to make sure the soup be fresh and not fishy, I need wash the pig bones with the boiling water twice to get rid of the blood.

3. It was nice and sunny day!
What was a sunny day!

4. So, I decided to go out after the lunch.
So, I made up my mind to have a walk after lunch.

I got up late naturally on Saturday morning and I felt refreshed. After a simple breakfast, I started to prepare soup for lunch since it would take a long time to cook and I bought the ingredients last night. I washed the pig bones with boiling water twice to get rid of the blood to make sure the soup would be fresh and not fishy and then just put them into the stew pot with water. Then I started to tidy up my room, mop the floor, dusted, etc. while the soup was cooking. It was a nice and sunny day! So, I decided to go out after the lunch. I went to my one of my favorite parks which was Century park. The park is amazing/wonderful/great in / during this season. There were some trees with yellow leaves and natural grass along the river. The tall trees and blue sky were reflected on the river. There weren’t any fences along the river so it was convenient to get much closer to nature. I felt integrated (merged with) into nature in that moment and felt fully relaxed. It is so hard to find these kinds of places in the city and most parks don’t have enough harmony / are not harmonious enough and there is lots of scenery that were made and created by humans instead of nature itself.

1. I got up late naturally on last Saturday morning and I felt refreshed.
Last Saturday morning, when I got up naturally it was already very late and I felt refreshed.
Last Saturday morning, I felt refreshed after I got up late to make sure I had enough sleep.

2. I washed the pig bones with the boiling water twice to get rid of the blood to make sure the soup is fresh and not fishy.
In order to make sure the soup was fresh and not fishy, I needed to wash the pig bones with boiling water twice to get rid of the blood.

3. It was nice and sunny day!
What a sunny day it was!

4. So, I decided to go out after the lunch.
So, I made up my mind to have a walk after lunch.
Having finished lunch, I decided to go out for a walk. = I decided to go out for a walk after I had finished lunch.

Grammar

what a day it was!
what a life!
what a cup of coffee!
what a great day it has been!

I felt that I was merged with nature

most parks / most of the parks in China

nouns – which ones / how many? 
verbs – what time? 

the – use it ONLY to be more specific when you have to
eg. In order to make sure the / my / this soup be fresh and not fishy, I need wash the / these pig bones with boiling water twice to get rid of (any / the / its) blood.

Vocabulary

dust = to wipe the dust
eg. I dusted the house because there was too much dust everywhere

There were no any fences – there weren’t any fences 

Most of parks are not enough harmony – most parks don’t have enough harmony / most parks aren’t harmonious enough