VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)
Grammar
This is the photo taken by the photographer / This photo was taken by a photographer / A photographer took this photo.
This is the photographer took this pic for me / A photographer took this picture for me.
This is the photographer that took the picture for me.
Needs more review
Reviewed last week’s vocabulary
Pronunciation
Belize – BUH-LEEZE
Guatemala – GWOT-UH-MA-LUH
Honduras – HON-DER-REZ
El Salvador – EL SAL-VUH-DOOR
Nicaragua – NICK-UH-RAH-GRUH
Panama – PAN-UH-MUH
Costa Rica
Dominica
St. Lucia – Saint Lucia
Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
Columbia – CUH-LUM-BEE-YA
Venezuela – VEN-EH-ZWALE-UH
Suriname – SIR-RUH-NOM-AY
Atacama – A-TUH-CAH-MUH
Uruguay – YOUR-UH-GWIE
Vocabulary
to be hands on – to be actively involved in
e.g. My mom had a very hands on approach with my education growing up.
e.g. My mom had a very hands off approach when it came to my free time.
leafy adj – leaf noun
parrot – 鹦鹉
parakeet – 长尾鹦鹉 – a type of parrot
macaw – 金刚鹦鹉
starling – 八哥
e.g.Don’t just parrot what someone else says.
copy – parrot – mimic
runs the length – it goes down the entire “long way” – “all of it”
walkabout – tour by foot – short walk
cape – end -海角
For you, I would go to the end of the earth – 天涯海角
shipwreck – to wreck or crash your ship
e.g. The Titanic is probably the most famous shipwreck.
horn – 喇叭
loaf – loaf of bread – measure word for bread
e.g. I want one loaf of bread or maybe I will buy three loaves of bread.
cathedral – church – 大教堂
Christ the Redeemer in Brazil – 基督救世主
capybara – 水豚
oil rig – a big platform in the ocean where men drill for oil
mackerel – 鲭鱼
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