VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Try not to use Chinese at all.

focused on simple question and answers using English only – no Chinese.

“What about your dream?” My teacher asked me when I was in primary school,I wrote my dream was to be a doctor ,because when I was young my grandmother told me you should read more book and the doctor is the most high degrees in education, so I thought if I was a doctor she will very happy and proud of me. However, as time went by, I found I didn’t like reading and I like drawing, in free time I often draw cartoon which I liked. Therefor I wanted to be an artist, I thought it was cool that you can use pencil to draw everything which I imagined, in other hand, use picture to describe a story is more interesting than text.

“What about your dream?” My teacher asked me when I was in primary school, I wrote my dream was to be a doctor / get a PhD ,because / as / since / due to the fact that when I was young my grandmother told me you should read more books and a doctorate / a PhD is the highest degree (in education), so I thought if I was a doctor she would be very happy and proud of me. However, as time went by, I found I didn’t like reading but I liked drawing (instead), and in my free time I often drew cartoons / I would often draw cartoons / I used to often draw cartoons which I liked / I enjoyed / I loved / I was really into / I was really fond of. Therefore I wanted to be / I was interested in being / I was keen on being / I planned to be an artist, because I thought it was cool that you can use pencils to draw anything (that) I imagined, and on the other hand, using pictures to describe a story is more interesting than text.

Grammar

I am so hot today. So, I want to go swimming.

Because I am hot, I want to swim.

I am hot today so I want to go swimming.

would = if + will or past
could = if + can or past
eg. if I was rich I could buy 10 houses but I wouldn’t, I would put it in the bank.

if it rains, water falls from the sky – fact – normal time
if it rain I will get wet – fact – future
if it rained I would have gotten wet – past already (but didn’t happen)
if it rained I would be wet now – now (didn’t happen)

Vocabulary

delicious – tasted really good / i really liked the taste 

light flavor – dan yi dian de wei dao
eg. I am into home-cooked food because the flavor is lighter

tomb sweeping day – qing ming qie

riddle – mi yu
eg. my dad gave us many riddles during Easter

hobbies / hobby – ai hao
eg. one of my hobbies are ballet

acoustic guitar (wooden “old style”) / electric guitar (dian de)

Pronunciation

elegant – “eleh gent”