Profile Update Class (Jesse) [S]

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Next update June 2019

Previous Level

Listening: 2
Speaking: 1.75
Pronunciation: 2.5
Writing: 1.75

New levels

Listening: 3.25
Speaking: 2.5
Pronunciation: 2.5
Writing: 2.75
11.0

Changes to profile:
Top left icon: Topics related to current life + work
Top middle icon: Conversation (Self correction / Vocabulary – hard to remember words) 

Top right icon: Review & Reading (Vocabulary) 

Next Class Focus

Ask Jack about the words he has trouble remember. He should bring a list.

Speaking exercise

the story about the america before the civil war. the story is about the black people musician. he shows in the northern part of america but northern people don’t like the black man. when i had seen the film i said to my girlfriend “it is the winner, it will win the oscar” – after 3 days it wins, every year like this.


bachelor degree
master degree

major
eg. she majored in music

tuning – the sound of each string (xian) on a guitar
eg. the tuning of a guitar is different to a ukulele

out of tune – the tuning is bad / the sound is wrong
eg. I sing out of tune sometimes

tone deaf – sb who can’t sing in tune or hear the notes correctly

he’s a gay
he’s gay 

he’s a chinese
he’s chinese

he’s a black
he’s black

predictable – you can easily know it will happen
eg. it’s very predictable which film will win the oscars

pre = before
dict = know / dictionary

diabetes – tang niao bing – die a bee teas –  bee drank some tea with sugar and died 

politically correct = PC

flogging a dead horse – to keep trying to do sth that isn’t going to happen
eg. Jesse is flogging a dead horse by pushing Jack to write.