VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)[S]

Review the speaking section. Write your answer again. What would you do with $1M?

What would you do with $1M?

I don’t know what I want to buy. I can buy a phone – a new phone. I want a new jui xin kwan, a computer from you. I would to buy a playground so my friends can have a place to play. And I would to put them in a place and put a lot of fire because I think it fun. Because I put the one million dollar to give the teacher and the teacher said you can go.

Corrected

I don’t know what I would buy. Maybe I would buy a phone – I would want a new one. I would also want a new computer — maybe I could buy it from you. I would buy a playground so that my friends could have a place to play. And I would build a camp fire for them because I think this would be fun. I didn’t go to school today because I gave one million dollars to my teacher and the teacher said you don’t have to come to school today / you can go.

Vocabulary

imagination – 想象
I want you to imagine for a moment. (verb / 动词)
I want you to use your imagination. (noun / 名词)

a moment – a short period of time – just a little bit of time – 时刻
I want you to think about this just for a moment.

dollars – 美元
I want you to imagine / think that I give you $1,000,000.

build a fire / set a fire

he’s the Michael Jordan of eating hot dogs

unbelievable – 难以置信的

crave – 渴望
I am craving a NYC hot dog.

easily – too easy for me

Italian pasta – yi da li mian
My mother is Italian so she cooks Italian pasta.

sauce – 酱
Italian pasta has delicious tomato sauce.

round – 轮
the fight is three rounds

referee – 裁判
the referee stopped the fight.

Grammar

do you want to eat hot dog
do you want to eat a hot dog
do you want to eat hot dogs

in my home they can’t cook so I eat it outside 
in my home no one knows how to cook pasta so I have to eat it at a restaurant