VIP Class Notes (Li)

Vocabulary

navigate – get around (a place)

ex. navigate a map

hypnotise – 催眠

ex. Read a boring textbook so that it’ll hypnotise you before you fall asleep.

subway line is up and running/open – working

plan – ji hua, gui hua

ex. Lines 19 to 27 have already been planned.

Grammar

get on/get off a train/bus

present perfect – to say that you’ve done something at the time of speaking

have + past participle (third past tense)

ex. I have been to France.

ex. I have not taken the subway.

ex. Richard has never eaten pi dan.

I don’t done something in the past I think.

I don’t remember anything from the past/I don’t have any memories of events that happened in the past. 

In the morning I played and watched the movies.

In the morning I played and watched some movies.

I can put subway map and look at it on my bed.

I usually take out a subway map and look/stare at it on my bed.

Around 2 years ago, I watched the news on TV and it reported that “Line 14 and 15 will be up and running soon.”

Then I talked about it with my father and I think the subway is interesting.

Line 19 to 27 is just gui hua.

Lines 19 to 27 have just been planned.

When Line 15 is running in February, my dad took me to Line 15.

When Line 15 was opened in February, my dad took me to take it.

I heard about Line 21 will start building it next New Years.

I heard that Line 21 will start building from next New Years.