Online Class Notes (Nicholas)(S)

Download and watch the movie “Wall Street” from the 1980s.

Review your speaking exercises and start to practice saying them again and again, because then you will get into the pattern of saying things in the new corrected way.

Pronunciation

earn / UR-NUH / focus on pronouncing the R sounds like re-shui and the N sound.

burn / B-UR-NUH

Vocabulary

time horizon / this is an investment word that refers to the amount of time you can stay invested in the market

e.g. If your financial goal is a long term goal like retirement, and you are very young, then this goal is very far away, so your time horizon is very long.

e.g. If your financial goal is a short term goal, and it will happen soon, then you have a very short time horizon. For example, maybe your financial goal is retirement at age 65 – this is a long term goal but if you are age 64 – your time horizon for this goal is very short.

Replace “my side” with “from my perspective” / also means “in my opinion”

Requires / You must be able to / You need to / these words go together – don’t use the word “can”

“I can’t live with myself” / I feel guilty

e.g. She cheated on the test and simply couldn’t live with herself.

“at the last time” = “eventually” / this means at some point in the future something will happen

“what he had to go through” / the difficult times that this person had to experience

e.g. In high school, children bullied me and it was very difficult for me to go through.

relevant / 相关 / it “hits home” / something is important because it relates to my life and I can relate to it

e.g. If my father died in a plane crash, and in a movie I saw someone die in a plane crash – then that movie would hit home for me – because it feels real for my own life.

e.g. Wandering Earth hit home for many Chinese viewers because they value the home so much.

to value / to find really important

e.g. I value education. I value family life in the home. This is better than saying “I think family life in the home is very important”.

I think if they you have enough time they you will be can be very successful because you can earn money every year. and if the time is not long if you don’t have much time you can’t earn much many many money a lot of money — time is the most important factor for earning money; but I know the financial market <<SUBJECT>> is very cruel for people and usually the market don’t doesn’t <<VERB>> give out/us enough time.

I know a sentence saying in a the financial world market that is very famous that is it says: “if you want to be successful you must you need one of these three things: this matter be smarter be cheater be quicker. I think what I can do is see my side and be quicker maybe be cheater is another way From my perspective, I value making quick decisions – maybe cheating is another way,  but it needs you have a requires that you have a strong heart — you can must be able to accept these decisions but most people cannot accept themself to be cheating all the time live with themselves if they are cheating all the time.

Now if you have want to be a cheater you must always do this cheat – it’s a hard work.

I think thought the movie is was very warm – it respects shows the opinion distinction the split society in the 1960s maybe in America. I don’t know the history during that time but when I see saw the colored musician and what he had to go through – he has had to go to the very simple toilet – I think thought it was very sad.

In China we think people are equal – I don’t have an opinion about colored people – so I don’t know how to discuss about this.

I know in Chinese culture and it is its history other colored people or maybe the people who had a different culture –  they would eventually be considered Chinese at the last time in a history – China has a long history and there are many different cultures within the that history but at last they become one [finally they become one]. So I think maybe if there are different types of people living in China I think maybe at the last time eventually we will have the same culture.

I like England English culture/the culture of England because I read the novels. And Pride & Prejudice – things like that.

I know this movie it is adapted by from a novel – it’s a Chinese novel and in Chinese culture we like our houses very much we don’t want to leave the Earth – so I think this idea can only start out by is most relevant for/”hits home most for” Chinese people and not by so much for other cultures’ people. I think other people love their homes too but in China home means everything and you cannot leave your home except maybe for very important things such as starting your own family, or moving for an important job. happen usually you cannot leave your home.

If you mention some “important thing” tell me what some of them are like this “very important things” + “such as…”

Because we Earth’s inhabitants were very hot and sometimes very cold – the Earth’s climate was changing all the time – so you cannot live on the earth – you can only survived under the earth.

Grammar

Remember if you are telling me about something you saw or did in the past – make sure you use the past tense for your verbs.

e.g. I thought the movie was very warm.