VIP Class Notes (Mike)

Vocabulary

material (n) 素材，物质
ie. What kind of materials would you put in your video?

clip (n) 片段
ie. I would include some awkward scenes/clips in the videos.

awkward (adj.)  尴尬的
ie. My teacher came back from the bathroom without zipping his pants, it was so awkward!

Stephen Chow 周星驰

elevator (n) 电梯

definition (n) 分辨率，画质
ie. Stephen Chow’s films have low definition.

fossil (n) 化石
ie. Cage bought many expensive fossils.

theme (n) 主题

character (n) 角色
ie. This movie has 2 main characters.

synthetic (adj.) 人工的，合成的

CGI- Computer Generated Image

car crash (n) 车祸

gas station 加油站

edit (v) 剪辑
ie. Jason doesn’t know how to edit videos yet, but he wants to learn.

fuel/gas (n) 汽油

run out of 用完了
ie. My family is running out of salt, so my mom told me to buy some.

nearest/closest (adj.) 最近的
ie. Where is the closest/nearest gas station?

cover (n) 封面
ie. Don’t judge a book by its cover： 以貌取人

sound effect (n) 音效

sarcasm (n) 讽刺

gif (n) 动图

meme (n) 带有文字的搞笑图片

Grammar

person: 1 person

people: 2 people, many people

humans
human kind
human being

I never make videos,
I have never made any videos before.

He goes travel with his son, in the middle of the trip, his car didn’t have has, then he found  a man and asked him” Where is the gas station?”. Then the stranger thought about it for 5 minutes, and answered, “I don’t know, you have to ask somebody else!”

He went traveling with his son. In the middle of the trip, his car ran out of gas, but he saw a man and asked him” Where is the gas station?”. The stranger thought about it for a few minutes, and answered, “I don’t know, you will have to ask somebody else!”

Then, he asked another people, then the stranger told him “Turn left and go straight, the you can see the gas station!”. And he followed his advice, but he did saw the gas station and he used phone to find where is the nearest gas station.

Then, he asked another person, the stranger told him “Turn left and go straight, then you can see the gas station!”. And he followed his advice, and he ended up in a public toilet!  So he had to use his phone to find where the nearest gas station is.