VIP Class Notes (George) [S]

Vocabulary

Contract- When you make an agreement with someone and write it in paper.

e.g. My contract at this company is for two years.

Pension- After you reach old age, usually 65, you get paid a pension.

e.g. The retirement age in France is 65, but they want to put it up to 67 before you get pension.

Probation- A period when you are just starting at a company and they are testing your ability.

e.g. My probation period was 6 months but because I did well, they changed me to 3 months.

Jewellery- Things that you wear like rings, earrings, necklaces.

e.g. Bvlgari makes very expensive jewellery, but they also opened up a hotel.

Mood Board- A kind of look book we use to give an idea to someone, especially for creative things.

e.g. Most people use Pinterest to make their mood board, and it usually takes them a whole day.

Original

Last Saturday, I had dinner with a lot of my friends because it was one of my girlfriend’s birthday. All of the guests were come from different countries, most of them were French and some Singaporean, one American girl and one English. So during the dinner we played some games so we need to speak English it made me a little bit nervous because most of them spoke English very good, like the Singaporean and American and English, it’s their mother tongue, they spoke very fast, but I tried to catch them, their speed. After dinner, we went to a bar which was in the roof, very famous for foreigners, in this bar, 90% of the people are foreigners. But I forgot the name. Kartel. It’s very close to my home just 5 minutes by walk. My girlfriends, who is the birthday, she gave each of us a little paper, and wrote three questions like my question was describe Katherine as a dish and tell me three things that we can share, and third, if you choose to meet your boyfriend or me, you can just choose one in your life, you will pick which one? Everyone has different questions, then we could ask her a question. The French guys always ask the questions really strange.

Corrected

Last Saturday, I had dinner with a lot of my friends because it was one of my girlfriend’s birthday. All of the guests came from different countries, most of them were French and some Singaporean, one American girl and one English. So during the dinner we played some games and we needed to speak English it made me a little bit nervous because most of them spoke English very well, like the Singaporeans and the American and English girls, because it’s their mother tongue, they spoke very fast, but I tried to catch up with them. After dinner, we went to a bar which was on a roof, and it’s very famous for foreigners. in this bar, 90% of the people are foreigners. But I forgot the name. Kartel. It’s very close to my home just 5 minutes by walk/walking. My girlfriend who was having her birthday, she gave each of us a little paper, and wrote three questions like my question was describe Katherine as a dish and tell me three things that we can share, and third, if you choose to keep your boyfriend or me, you can just choose one to stay in your life, which one will you pick? Everyone had different questions, and after answering, we could ask her a question. The French guys always ask really strange questions.