VIP Class Notes (Ally)[S/W]

social-society-socialize -> how to use them properly

Do more IELTS writing practice

Vocabulary

dead-beat: (adj or n) Xian yu, but more serious
ie. He’s a dead beat dad who doesn’t show up at all.

multiple-choice questions: option questions

stagnant: without change or new development, no breakthroughs

raw: sheng de

polar: (adj) opposite
ie. That’s the polar opposite to how things are done in China.
ie. I think she’s bipolar because she acts so strangely all the time.

Grammar

consider: think about (NO OPINIONS YET)
ie. I considered what I should eat.
ie. I consider you a friend. (think of)
ie. It’s under my boss’s consideration.

social-society-socialize

in my university = place
in my university days = time
in university = time concept

thought (as a verb = yi wei)
ie. I thought (v) that IELTS was hard. (it’s actually easy)
ie. We have different thoughts(Xiang fa) about IELTS.  (for things in your head you can count and retell)
ie. In my thinking (siwei) , IELTS is the hardest English test ever. (for your general state of mind you can’t really describe)

in writing: BE DIRECT! use less preps even though you’re v good at using them

exercise = the verb itself
ie. We exercise regularly. (verb itself.)
ie. We do math exercises (problems from homework) (noun = problems)
ie. Exercising is good for you.  (ing = big concept)

have the power to attract => attract
new people to move into the town => new residents
-> change some info to adj’s

Q: Tell me about an important decision you’ve made.
A: After I graduated from my high school, I decided to learn Japanese/pursue the Japanese language/major in university. It’s my first time to think about what I do when I get to this social. this decision has really changed my life. I started to learn about Japanese and Japanese cultures and by learning Japanese, I get my first job after I graduated and went to a Japanese company. It not only changed my life, it had a big impact on my career. It’s a really important decision for me. I just think it’s by myself, nobody gave me advices when I chose how to consider about my life. Learning a new language is a really fun thing and you can get more info from another angle, so you have a chance to learn about other cultures and you make friends with foreigners. You can have different thoughts.

Edited:

A: After I graduated from my high school, I decided to learn Japanese/pursue the Japanese language/major in university. It’s my first time to think about what I do when I graduate/grow up/become an adult in society. This decision has really changed my life./ It was a life-defining decision/moment for me. I started to learn about Japanese and Japanese culture and by learning Japanese, I got my first job. After I graduated and I went to a Japanese company. It not only changed my life, it also had a big impact on my career. It’s a really important decision for me, both personally and for my career/professionally. I made this decision by myself/alone, without any outside help/interference. Nobody gave me advices because I wanted to choose how to live my life/I wanted to make my own considerations/I had my own considerations that nobody could change. Learning a new language is really fun and you can look at a different place in the world in a different way, because you have a chance to learn about other cultures and you can make friends with foreigners. You can have different thinking/a different mindset. It would make you more open-minded and more accepting of different mindsets.

Some people consider that it has higher priority to create public spaces for residents rather than shopping centers, such as parks or sports facilities. As for me, I think public space plays a much more important role nowadays and should expand that.

Parks and sports facilities can improve people’s life quality and satisfaction. With the change of life style, there is more and more people who tend to spend their time enjoying life and pay more attention to health. For example, lots of families have a picnic at weekend now and people do exercise regularly. Therefore, Parks and sports facilities can meet the needs for residents.

Furthermore, Parks and sports facilities have stronger power to attract people to move to the town. Since E-Commerce has a significant development during this year, it is said that the numbers of people who go to shopping center and the frequency has reduced. To contrast, Increasing number of people take part in events like music festivals held in parks and access to sports facilities during their free time.

To conclude, in order to adopt the change of people’s lifestyle, it is important to build more parks or sports facilities.

Edited:

(reconsider your thesis statement)

Some people think/feel that we should prioritize creating public space for residence, such as building parks and sports facilities, rather than for building shopping centers. As for me, I think residential public space plays a much more important role nowadays and we should expand them.

Parks and sports facilities can improve people’s life quality and satisfaction. As young people’s standard of living changes, more and more people tend to spend their time enjoying life and paying more attention to health. For example, nowadays, lots of families have a picnic on the weekends and people exercise regularly. Therefore, Parks and sports facilities can meet these residential needs/ the needs of these new-generation residents.

Furthermore, parks and sports facilities attract new residents more easily. Since the significant development of E-commerce this year, it is said that the numbers of people who go to shopping center has reduced/that people go to shopping centers less frequently. In contrast, an increasing number of people take part/participate in events like music festivals held in parks and go to sports games/exercise in sports facilities during their free time.

To conclude, in order to adapt to our changing lifestyle, it is important to build more parks or sports facilities.

Pronunciation

residents: re+zi+dents (not resistends )

priority : pry+or+rity