VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W / S]

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After two and half months, finally, I got the drive license in the early of this July. Though I thought I drove well on the examination, I was still afraid of driving on road by myself and had to let my father accompany me on beside on the early times. It was a sunny day the first time I drove alone. I took the car from my home to the place where I threated my body. I drove very slowly with only twenty kilometers per hour and stopped the car nearly two meters away from the road across when the green tracffic lights was turning to red. The most difficult thing was not to drive on road but to park the car into an appropriate place. It was a small and narrow road that I had to turn around the car firstly with the way that I reversed it a little slowly, then drove it up a little slowly and repeated these two actions for about four or five times. Then, I needed to park it into the parking spot beside the road with the similar way slowly driving up and slowly reversing over time and time. I drove from home at two o’clock in the afternoon and arrived at about three o’clock which tooks me nearly one hour. The time I spent was about twice than the normal time it tooks.

After two and a half months, finally, I got the driver‘s license in early July. Though I thought I drove well in the examination, I was still afraid of driving on the road by myself and had to let my father accompany me beside me at first. It was a sunny day the first time I drove alone. I took the car from my home to the place where I get my body treated / to the Chinese medicine clinic. I drove very slowly at only twenty kilometers per hour and stopped the car nearly two meters away from the crossing / intersection when the traffic lights were turning red. The most difficult thing was not to drive on the road but to park the car into an appropriate place. It was a small and narrow road that I firstly had to turn around the car, so first(ly) I reversed a little slowly, then drove a little forward slowly and repeated these two actions about four or five times. Then, I needed to park it into the parking spot beside the road in a similar (the same) way slowly driving forward and slowly reversing over and over. I drove from home at two o’clock in the afternoon and arrived at about three o’clock which took me nearly one hour. The time I spent was about twice the normal time it should take. 

Vocabulary

pick me up from home and drop me off at school

some processes that you need to do – follow / go through / adhere to 

needs the product to be / get more efficient

hazard / hazardous
eg. I need to know the hazardous material standards

overseas purchaser / buyer – dai gou

bath mat

coaster – a cup mat

double the normal time / twice the normal time

I learn English with the way that Jesse told me, which is by reading books.
I learn English by reading books

at first = in the early stages / during the first period of time

first / firstly 

it turns red / it becomes red

traffic lights 

intersection / crossing – shi zi lu kou
eg. walk through the intersection and stop on the side of the road / beside the road

Grammar

drove a little forward slowly / drove slowly forward a little

for + how long
times 
eg. I have been to Japan 5 times 
eg2. I have class for 1 hour 

noun = which one / how many?
verbs = what time?

home / work = no “the / a / my” etc…
park / road / bank / hospital / airport / post office / bus stop / train station / market / shops = add “the”
cafe / restaurant / company / building / place = maybe add a / the / my / yours …. 

in early July / in the middle of July (in mid July) / in late July
in early 2017 / in the middle of 2017 (in mid 2017) / in late 2017

i drove at a slow speed
eg. i talk at a really fast rate

Pronunciation

colleagues – “col leegz”

I went to shopping at kunshan shopping centre, then watched a film at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The film was finished at 5 o’clock and then I went to the market to buy some vegetables for dinner. I bought potatoes and milk. Milk is for today’s breakfast and potato is for the cooking.

I went to shopping at kunshan shopping centre, and then watched / before watching a film at 2 o’clock in the afternoon which (was) finished at 5 o’clock. After that, I went to the market to buy some vegetables for dinner. I bought potatoes and milk. The milk was for today’s breakfast and the potatoes were for the cooking / the dinner.