VIP Class Notes (Maddie)

read the notes before next class and memorise the expressions learned in class

try to form a sentence with the correct form of a verb – v-ing as a subject, past/present tense etc.

need to know more common expressions

1. what do you always do in a hurry?
do my homework. because school days is fast pace so i need to do my homework to get my gpa at school. 
when i do my homework i never have enough time to do it. at school we feel very stressed and there’s always new deadlines coming up,which means the time you get for each task is really limited.

2. what kind of things would you never do in a hurry?
play basketball. i like sports. i think basketball can become me become more confident and relaxed. through basketball i know(‘ve made) a lot of new friend(s)

cf. know & meet
know sb: to have learned something about someone
meet sb: to meet them for the first time

3. do you usually go out in a hurry?
when i get up i saw the clock was 9 oclock but i need 8 30 to get in class so i need dress my clothes and wash my face and eat my breakfast – i need to run fast in my breakfast on road.

note the difference between decribing an event and describing a general trend

punctual: to be able to arrive on time.
when i was a kid my mum told me to be a punctual person.

4. do you like to be in a hurry?
no i dont because being in a hurry let makes me feel very uncomfortable;

i dont think anyone does.

make vs. let:
make: to ask someone to do sth
let: to allow someone to do what they already want to do

would vs will:
would: past tense of will or a more polite form of will 

i will think i will have a lot of thing not prepared. it will let me feel very nervous.
it would make me feel underprepared or even nervous if i were to attend some important event.

organised (adj.): having things planned out
he’s so organised that he never missed a single appointment/meeting.

what sports did you do when you were a kid?

i always played basketball with my dad when i was a kid . i think. basketball is very interesting to me; i wanted to be a professional basketball player in the future at that moment, so i trained very hard to be a stronger player on the court.

do you watch sport matches?

yes i do, i very like watching nba games very much. -especially my fav team- i never missed a single game they played.

i always watch nba games with my friends at home, becaues we’re all nba fans and we support our favourite teams. i think it’s very exciting to watch because all the players in nba is are the most highest level in the world so it’s fantastic to watch games/matches.
get the adrenalin flowing

because my favourite player is Stephen Curry, he’s point guard in this team and the warriors’ got 3 nba championship so i think it’s a very powerful team in the nba.

do you prefer to study in the mornings

i prefer to learn in the morning because i heard some doctor say human in the morning have strong memoriesize to for work so i think it’s more useful efficient to study in the morning than in the afternoon.

are you looking forward to working?
yea i am. well i think working it means to find a job. it makes me to have more life experiments experience so it’s very good for me.
well i think to start working is to start a new stage of your life it means to find a job  . it makes allows me to have acquire/gain more life experiments experience so it’s very good for me. 

to make –> to allow 
to get –> to acquire, to gain