VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

About determiners https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/determiners-the-my-some-this

They said we cannot send it to Shanghai in this time, the government announced work resumption but in practice it isn’t really the case.

This week I had a breakthrough with grammar.
It focused on auxiliary verb.

It is so common but most people don’t understand it.

I start to learn the language and express how many types of sentences can express the same meaning -> I find alternatives to express a meaning

I found another thing I had not realized and it gave me the drive to keep going and study 

The man without a hat / the man facing right/looking right is the main character of this film / protagonist
The one looking to the right is the hero and the other one looking at the other side is the villain.

This story is described a story during the Holocaust -> the story describes something that happened during the Holocaust / The story is set during the Holocaust.

A guard wants to learn Polish to open a new restaurant after the war and a prisoner jumps on the opportunity to survive … the problem is he doesn’t speak Polish and has to create a new language to fool the guard.

The hero tried to create a new language in Poland to teach the man behind him to get the opportunity to survive.

He wants to learn Polish because he wants to open a restaurant after the war so it is an exchange.
The hero pretends he is Polish to survive.
He is not from Poland but he tries to create the language and he has to teach it.

The captive has to teach the officer 20 words a day.
After a while he finds it hard to teach new words. / after a while he starts to run out of new words.
He realizes he can create the vocabulary based on the name list of the prisoners.

After the war the hero survived but the soldier met another Polish enemy, he tried to speak Polish and they had no idea what he was talking about. Then they realized it was the names of the victims 

The class made me think about that film.

Vocabulary

Victim (n) people getting hurt/killed
The victims were taken to the hospital 

Captain (n) someone of high rank / someone who has control over a ship
He is a captain in the army

To be set (v) to happen at a place / time
The story is set in ancient China in Xian 

Enemy / foe (n) the one you are fighting against
The enemies took the city during the night

Capture (v) take prisoner
Tom was captured and sent to a camp 

Captive (n) prisoner / someone who doesn’t have freedom
Many captives died

Soldier (n) someone in the army
The soldier wants to open a restaurant

Prisoner (n) someone in prison
The hero is a prisoner

Holocaust (n) extermination of Jewish people during WW2
He wrote a book about the Holocaust

Hero (n) for a good main character
Captain America is a super hero

Villain (n) a bad character
The villain is facing left

Protagonist (n) main character
The protagonist is at the forefront of the movie poster 

Driver (n) factor causing development
Covid was the main driver for the market crash 

Drive (n) ambition to achieve / urge to meet a goal
Tom has so much drive, he is always working

Determiner (n) type of word giving indications https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/determiners-the-my-some-this

Rice paper wrappers (n) what is used to wrap spring rolls
It is hard to get rice paper wrappers