VIP Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

Last year’s Nationality day –  Last year’s National day

What did you say? / What’d ya say?

In the mountains

On the/a mountain

Unibrow – one connected eyebrow

eg: There is a famous female artist with a unibrow.

Patriot – a person who loves their country

eg: He is not really a patriot to his country.

Patriotic (adj) – love your country

eg: He is really not patriotic.

Basque – a group of people that live around Spain and France.

eg: Two years ago we traveled around a place with a lot of Basque people. I think it was in Basque country.

full grown – finished growing (for people or animals)

eg: It was not a full grown horse. So we couldn’t ride it.

Hassle – an inconvenient thing to do, you probably have to do it, but you don’t want to. Don’t think it’s necessary.

eg: My skin care routine is a hassle.

GuestHouse – like a hotel, but more private and smaller.

eg: We stayed at a Bed and Breakfast place outside Shanghai. It was a really big guesthouse.

Grammar

He was born in Belgium

2 years ago we drived drove from French France to Spanish Spain and we live stayed in the mountains.

we stayed in a house that we rented on AirBnB

in front of the house there was a small Stable(place for horses) for horse

my skin very easy to dry – my skin gets dry easily

[ it belongs to Hangzhou / It’s a part of Hangzhou ]

I don’t know how to do ice skating ice skate.

we rent a house in the mountain. (Usually)

Like, every year? or Every month?

No, we rented a house, in the mountain.

What, you stayed inside the mountain? Like, in a cave?

No, we just stayed in the mountains.

Pronunciation

Swiss (adj)

Switzerland – Swit-Zerr Lend /   Swit Serr Lend

Listen and Spell:

Helthy

Haithy

Hiso

Hai

Hasoul

Hasl

Hassl

Hassle

S = Don’t let your tongue touch your teeth.

TH = Touch your tongue to your teeth.