VIP Class Notes (Mike)

Homework

Write an article about your fav book.

Writing exercise

When I saw the question, I thought about it for a long time.
Perhaps, It’s enough for me to have a sweet family and a stable job. I can stay with my husband and my baby liberally. I can take care my parents at anytime
Perhaps, I can go to country to live when I feel noisy of the city. I can travel anywhere when I want to see the world. I can walk slow down when I fell exhausted.
Perhaps, I can get up at 6am every morning, then I can go swimming. When I back to home, my husband has prepared breakfast. When I have finish it later, I can wake up my baby. Then we can go out together. My husband and I are go to work and my baby is go to school.

When I saw the question, I thought about it for a long time.
Perhaps, It’s enough for me to have a sweet family and a stable job. I can stay with my husband and my baby without any limitation. I can take care of my parents at anytime
Perhaps, I can live in the countryside for a while when I feel there is too much noise in the city/ I can run away from the noisy city and find some peace in the countryside. I can travel anywhere I want. I can walk slowly when I feel exhausted.
Perhaps, I can get up at 6am everyday and go swimming. When I go back home, my husband has prepared breakfast. After finishing it, I will wake up my baby. Then we can go out together. My husband and I will go to work and my baby goes to school.

After I have finish my work smoothly, I can go to school to take my baby home.
Then I can prepare dinner. During the period, my husband is arrived home too. We eat together.
During my husband is washing dishes, I can coach the baby in homework. Then we can play together about half an hour.
In the end, we can go to bed together.
In fact, there are a lot of unhappy things in the real life, and It’s a part of life. We should accept it.
I wish everyone can be the best of themselves.

After a good day of work, I will go to school to take my baby home.
Then I can prepare dinner. My husband will get home before dinner is ready so that we can eat together.
When my husband is washing dishes, I can help the kid with his/her homework. Then we can play together for about half an hour.
By 10pm, we will go to bed together.
In fact, there are a lot of unhappy things in the real life, and It’s a part of life. Even though there are some unhappy things in reality, but I wish you can live in an ideal life.I wish everyone can be the best of themselves.

I know that life is not always perfect/life is not always the way we want it to be, but we can still wish for the best and live a meaningful/purposeful life.

I wish everyone can be the best of themselves.

Vocabulary

daily necessities 日用品

perfume 香水

skin-care products 护肤品

perspective (n) 视角 = view
From my ~, he is shallow

appearance – inside

shallow (adj.) 肤浅,浅薄
My colleague is shallow

typo (n) 打错字,手滑
There are 2 typos in this article

talk 长篇大论的,
1) talk with 和。。说话
2) talk to 对。。说话,谈论 = tell
3) talk about 谈论,聊

say 说,对。。说
“Are you hungry?” I said to my husband
I said some bad things to her yesterday
* A say sth to B
* A say to B

speak 讲
I speak English
speak to :
speak with:

tell  辨别,闻/听/看出来
A tell B
tell sb to do sth
I can’t tell if that person is a man or a woman
I can’t tell the difference between iPhone 12 and 13
Can you tell which one is mine

Grammar

go: 将要
be going to = will
I am going to learn English
I will learn English

go:去
I will go to Japan next month
I am going to Japan next month

现在进行时: be + Ving
I am walking
He is talking
They are dancing

现在完成时: have/has + Vpp
I ate an apple
I have eaten an apple

I learned this word
I have learned this word
I have been learning English

I am learning this unit
I have learned this unit

He went to Japan
He has been to Japan

die

He died
He has died

He is at home
he arrived 10 minutes ago

一般过去时
I finished my work 30 minutes ago
I attended this meeting
I ate an apple
I had a pizza
I drank a cup of water
I slept for 30 minutes this afternoon

某事持续一个时间段: for
I learned English for 2 years
This meeting lasted for 1 hour
We talked with each other for 15 minutes

to home/there/here

during + 时间段
During my time in Tencent,
During my 20s, I worked very hard
During CNY, I will go back to my hometown
During covid, everyone has to wear a mask

adverb
1) add + verb
We should face it bravely
I ate quickly

2)
he is tall
He is quite/extremely tall

3)

Unfortunately, He passes away
Luckily, I survived

last time, I …..

Speaking exercise

we should face it with courage
we should face it bravely

that’s what matters 这才是关键的,这才重要