VIP Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

In Your Words:

My words: Once I ate a steak so big that once I was finished I felt sick.

Your Words: One day you ate a steak. The steak was so big that after you had it you felt you were sick.

My Words: Most people think it’s bad to be very superficial, because they think if you only see the outside, you don’t know what’s really inside.

Your Words: Many people don’t consider superficial attitudes as an advantage because people will ignore your talent.

There is a superficial girl.

bored with

eg: Cassie was bored with Chinese class.

bored to death

if he gets here earlier I will encourage him.

.   –  Period

eg: A period always comes at the end of a sentence.

,  – Comma

eg: A comma is used to show a pause when you are speaking.

‘  – Apostrophe

eg: Apostrophes are used to show possession, (  Yvonne‘s new bag. )  or contractions: do not = don’t

Contraction – when you contract two words, and make them one word.

eg: the contraction of do not is don’t.

eg: Don’t, is a contraction.

resourceful – able to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems

eg: A high salary job needs someone to be resourceful.

Grammar

my story isn’t finished, it’s a series

I will told tell him

There was a girl who has superficial outlooking. She worked for a company for a long time,.and got bored about working. sometimes she stepped into the office lobby on workdays ,and she felt nervous, and she couldnt consentrated on her work. She felt herself as a failure. In order to get rid of this suitation, she asked her uncle for help. Her uncle asked her to go travel.

There is a girl who has a superficial outlook. She worked for a company for a long time, and got bored with working. Sometimes she stepped into the office lobby on workdays, and she felt nervous. She couldn’t concentrate on her work. She felt she was a failure. In order to get out of this situation, she asked her uncle for help. Her uncle told her to go traveling. So she asked for some days off and started planning her trip.

Suggestion: For your stories, make sure there is a beginning, middle and end.

Beginning: Introduction

Middle: Problem / Interesting

End: Resolution / Conclusion

Pronunciation

How to pronounce with spelling:

time, and – T I M E comma space A N D

Grammar

V. + to + V.

I went  there to talk to him.

I cooked that to eat it, not to give it to you.

I came here to get a job, not to get a job for you.

I came here to learn English, not to learn Chinese.