VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

cafeteria: can ting in a school/company

require: xu qiu /need

relative/comparative: dui bi de

detest: hate (v)

subjective: zhu guan de

tendency: 倾向; 偏好; 性情; 趋势; 趋向; (政党内的) 极端派别

conservative: (adj) bao shou de(v) conserve (n) conservation

tweak: perfect(v)/ change a little bit/ adjust

pitch an idea: talk about your idea/try to sell your idea

bankrupt: broke

ironic: feng ci de

prepare: zhun bei

Grammar

long time no see – OK

listening: don’t put words in my mouth

I had been a journalist 11 years.
I had been a journalist for 11 years. (<— time period)
I was a journalist about 17 years ago. (<– moment in time)

started my own business.

My wife and my child are living in Toronto right now. So I need to get a PR card, and 5 is the required IELTS score.

I haven’t used or studied English in a long time.

I have studied tense in school is not good.
I have studied tense in school before, but I didn’t do well/but not very well.
I didn’t do well when I studied tense in school before.

I have been living here for 27 years

SH have many museums, art exhibitions
There are …. in SH.

And I pitched my idea to different investors.  Now the company is almost bankrupt./is going bankrupt.

The American tax is lower than Canada.
The American tax is lower than the Canadian one.

When I was student,I liked sports very much.After I worked many yers,I became fat,so I decided to pick up sports.
I offen work-out at home or go jogging ouside,then I lose weight and being more strong.Now I can do push-ups or sit-ups about 40-50 for one time,I doing work-out as an etertrainment.

Edited:

When I was student, I liked sports very much. After I worked for many years, I became fat, so I decided to pick up sports again.
Now I often work-out at home or go jogging outside, so I lost weight and became stronger. Now I can do push-ups or sit-ups about 40-50 at once. I’m doing work-out as an entertainment.