VIP Class Notes (Celeste) [S]

Self correct the speaking exercise below. Focus on grammar especially past tense.
Try to make the story longer by writing about your own culture’s restaurant check customs.

I think Shanghainese men are petty because they always count small money. They count cent when we dutch pay. – I think Shanghainese men are petty because when we go dutch they count every cent.

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What chores do you have to do?
Last weekend after long business meeting, I came back to home I have a lot of chores.  I find out a lot of chores. – Last weekend, after a long business meeting, I went back home and found I had a lot of chores to do. 

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Q: What’s a big deal for you? What makes you the angriest?
A: It’s a big deal for me when someone smokes in the elevator. / It’s not a big deal for me when someone smokes in the elevator.
It’s not a big deal for me to pay for dinner because I don’t like going dutch.

Vocabulary

hypothetical adj. – not real : imagined as an example
eg. My friend asked me a hypothetical question. He asked, “What would you do if you got fired? How would you feel?” I said I would be upset.
eg. What would you do if you go back to to America? If I go back to America I would visit my family.
eg. What would you do if you won 1 million dollars? If I won 1 million dollars I would buy a cruise ticket and go on a world trip / cruise around the world / sail around the globe.

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a big deal can also be a big issue

I first time went to Canada for business and then we had lunch and 7 people and after lunch check bill. Everybody take credit card out and when waiter came here, what I ate, I paid how much, wha?? that is very, I never see that, you know? But that time, I thought that is Canada culture. A little different, I felt uncomfortable, I tried understand others’ culture… A business colleague, he’s a friend and took me to go there and he’s a friend friend and after lunch the waiter spent a lot of time to done our bill.

My first time that I went to Canada for business, I  had lunch with 7 people and afterwards we checked the bill.

TBC

Everybody take credit card out and when waiter came here, what I ate, I paid how much, wha?? that is very, I never see that, you know? But that time, I thought that is Canada culture. A little different, I felt uncomfortable, I tried understand others’ culture… A business colleague, he’s a friend and took me to go there and he’s a friend friend and after lunch the waiter spent a lot of time to done our bill.