VIP Class Notes (Li)

The Witches pg. 48

Vocabulary

sleep in – to be asleep or in bed longer than usual

features – things that stand out in an animal, person, story and so on

ex. The monsters of that book have many features such as headless body and branch-like wings.

headless – no head

~less – without

ex. armless/painless/toothless

furious – extremely mad

ex. Captain Hook is always furious at Mr Smee.

stroke moustache – use your fingers to touch

cabin – a private room on a ship

bait – food you put on a fish hook/food you use to catch an animal

throw yourself in somebody’s arms – hug

ex. The moment Boy saw his grandmother, he threw his arms around her.

Grammar

Long long long ago

A long time ago 

jealous with 

jealous of  Wendy/him/somebody/something 

I went to the Pudong Art Museum.

And I went to another museum but I forgot the name.

It’s favourite characters and it shows me my favourite characters.

This app can show me my favourite characters and I can click on them to read a book.

Chinese people long ago is like monsters. It have lot of strange things like tiger tails and shark teeth, sometimes it has no head. One of them it don’t have head. It just have the body and the hands and the feet. And, another one is a pig with no head, and it can fly. And, tigers with wings like branches, but they can’t fly.  Some are bad and some are good.

A long time ago, Chinese people are like monsters. Many of them have lots of strange features like tiger tails and shark teeth, and one even doesn’t have a head. It only has a body, hands and the feet. And, another is a pig with no head/a headless pig and it can fly. And, there are also tigers with branch-like wings, but they can’t fly.  Some are bad and some are good.

It is show that people what’s the animal like.

It shows you different creatures.

The snake people just have one eye.

The snake monster just has one eye/The one-eyed snake monster.

Pronunciation

read – red (past tense)