VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W / S]

Next Class Focus

do some writing focusing on the mistakes you made in the writing today.

Writing exercise

After visiting Mei Yuan, we went to the bus station for waiting for the local traveling bus. Surprisingly,this bus comes each one hour,we need to wait next one about 40 minutes. We got on the bus at half past 12. There are a few people in the bus, so we could find two good view seats. The bus across the caves, and drove along the lakeside. Half an hour later, I saw the second tourist tour which is named NianHuaWan. Before we arrived, the staff has been waiting for us at the station. I bought the tickets the day before yesterday, we needn’t join the queue. Because the scenic spot is so large, we can’t find the room by ourselves. There are not many people was living here because of the raining day and the quiet business season. The houses are very retro in the whole scenic spot. It looks like the architecture of Tang Dynasty. After a few minutes rest, we decided to eat hot pot. A lot of restaurants in this scenic spot, for example, local refreshments bar, milk tea shops, BBQ, Korean & Japanese food, but all of them are small. The hot pot is high opinion online, I didn’t think it tastes good. We came back to the room to have a rest after lunch until 6.

After visiting Mei Yuan, we went to the bus stop to wait for the local travel bus. Surprisingly,this bus only comes every hour / once an hour, and / so we need to wait for the next one for about 40 minutes. We got on the bus at half past 12. There were only a few / there were few people on the bus, so we could find two good view seats / 2 seats with a good view / 2 window seats. The bus crossed the caves, and drove along the lakeside and half an hour later, I saw the second tourist tour which was named NianHuaWan. Before we arrived, the staff had been waiting for us at the station. I bought the tickets the day before yesterday, so we needn’t / didn’t need to join the queue. Because the scenic spot was so large, we couldn’t find the room by ourselves. There were not many people (who were) living there because of the raining day and the quiet business season. The houses are very retro in the whole scenic spot and look like the architecture of Tang Dynasty. After a few minutes rest, we decided to eat hot pot. There are a lot of restaurants in this scenic spot, for example, local refreshments bar, milk tea shops, BBQ, Korean & Japanese food, but all of them are small. The hot pot place had great reviews, but I didn’t think it tasted good. We came back to the room to have a rest after lunch until 6.

Grammar

I have a house which is big.
My house is big and is nice for my family.

here = the place I am at now
there = some other place

few = not many – 2 or 3
a few = some – 2 or 3

for – reason / how long
eg. I have class for 1 hour for my self improvement.

there is – a place has sth / sth in a place
eg. there are many people in China
it has – part of / owned by
eg. I have a computer
there have 

have done – now your experience that happened in the past (general time)
had done – an experience that happened before another time in the past
did – past specific time

because + sentence
due to the fact that + sentence
because of + noun
due to + noun

Vocabulary

window seat < > isle seat 

Speaking exercise

I decided to my grandmothers home with my uncle family and i will buy some festival food for her. This year is an important time for my sister because she will be 24 years old this year is her and this year is her ben ming nian. I got a pandora for him. Due to I take my sister to visit my uncle, my uncle bought some food for thanks. My mother will buy some fresh food and fruits for the festival. We usually cook many dishes during spring festival. I think I won’t be receive the festival money because I was married but I was not sad because many years ago when I could receive money my mother always take the money to bank to save.

I decided to go to my grandmothers home with my uncle‘s family and i will buy some festival food for her. This year is an important time for my sister because she will be 24 years old. This year is her ben ming nian. I got a pandora for her. Due to the fact that I took my sister to visit, my uncle bought some food to say thanks / as a thanks. My mother will buy some fresh food and fruits for the festival. We usually cook many dishes during spring festival. I think I won’t be receive any money this year because I am married but I am not sad because many years ago when I could receive money my mother always took it to the bank to save.