VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

***pronunciation reading

Talk about your life recently and the difference between your past life and your life these days.

Talk about something you did in the past that you don’t do now. Why did you stop? THINK ABOUT TENSE.

One of my hobbies is snowboarding. When winter comes, the most important things to me is snowboarding.
I started to learn snowboarding last year and before that I played ski instead. Snowboarding becomes more and more popular in winter even though to the people located in the south area.
Last May my friend invited me to an indoor ski resort in Shaoxing and took 3 hours by car to arrive there, we ordered a professional instructor to teach us how to play the snowboard and it was really interesting, then I almost went to Shaoxing each week at last summer & autumn and took flight to Japan, Korea and some cities from north china.
But Shaoxing indoor ski resort has already closed this year and renovating now, so I haven’t play snowboarding these days and wish this winter will come sooner.

Talk about something you did in the past that you don’t do now. Why did you stop? THINK ABOUT TENSE.

One of my hobbies is snowboarding. When winter comes, the most important things to me is snowboarding.
I started to learn snowboarding last year and before that I skied instead. Snowboarding is becoming more and more popular in winter even the people located in the south area.
Last May my friend invited me to an indoor ski resort in Shaoxing and it took 3 hours by car to arrive there / to drive there, we ordered a professional instructor to teach us how to snowboard and it was really interesting. Then, I almost went to Shaoxing each week last summer & autumn and took flights to Japan, Korea and some cities in northern china / in north china.
But Shaoxing indoor ski resort closed this year is under renovation(s) / is being renovated now, so I’m not snowboarding these days and wish this winter would come sooner.

Grammar

do + noun (yoga / weights / exercise)
ski / snowboard / fish – verb

go skiing / go snowboarding / go fishing

recently / in the past some time
eg. recently I have been really busy
eg2. recently I have traveled a few times

these days / nowadays / now
eg. these days I am really busy
eg2. I am traveling a lot these days
eg3. I live in Shanghai now but I lived in Tokyo before.

will – 100% happen in future
would – 0% – 30% happen
eg. if it rains tomorrow I will be really unhappy
eg2. I wish winter would come soon (impossible)
eg3. If it didn’t rain yesterday I would have been happy (impossible)

even though – despite the fact that…
eg. Vian came today even though it’s raining = I wouldn’t expect her to come because of the rain

even 
eg. it rained every day last week, even on my wedding day.

Pronunciation

though – “thoh”