VIP Class Notes (Jacob) [S]

Homework

Read one of the following. 

http://www.51voa.com/

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Modern_Family_episodes#Season_1_(2009%E2%80%9310)


Vocabulary

Minus/negative (-) = below zero
eg. The temperature today is minus thirty. –> Its 30 below today.

Slang – words or phrases made by young people
what you at? –> What are you doing?
Whats the crack? –> How are you?

Maintenanced  (Spoken vs Written English)

Subtitles – the writing about what people are saying

Cuisine – food from a certain place
Dish – a single course
eg. In China, you should get at least 1 dish per person

Go Dutch = split (the bill)

Get people out of their shell – make people more confident

Synonyms – other words that describe the same meaning (Big, large, huge, giant, massive, gigantic, colossal)
Thesaurus (https://www.thesaurus.com/) – similar to a dictionary but for synonyms

Allergic reaction –> To be affected by something you have allergies to

Pilot (episode) – the first episode of a tv show


Grammar

My boss is Canadian

It comes from my major in College

It has been 5 years ago/ since 5 years ago

Sometime in the future I might live abroad

Have you been to that restaurant? –> Sometimes I eat there.

He knows me

About –> to give more details or specify

We did the installation overnight / We installed the stuff overnight


Pronunciation

affordable [a-ford-da-bowl]

Thesaurus [tha-sore-ris]


Speaking exercise

Original

The recent event I planned is in Beijing. Its a brand press preview, the brand is called ‘ ‘. Its an American brand in fashion industry. The part of my job is to control the vendors, models, and venue. About the vendors, it also includes the paper printer, logistics, model agency. We installation over night until 8 o’clock next day morning. Events start at 2pm, the media people come to the event and have a good time. During this event, there’s a few troubles happen but I could deal with them all.

Edited

The recent event I planned was in Beijing. It’s a brand press preview, the brand is called ‘tory burch’. Its an American brand in the fashion industry. The part of My job is to control the construction, vendors, models, and venue. About For the vendors, it includes the paper printing, logistics, model agency. We did the installation overnight until 8 o’clock (am) next day morning. The Event started at 2pm, the media people come arrived/came/got to the event and had a good time. During this event, there was a few troubles that happened but I could dealt with them all.


Lanna Cafe
Gemma’s
Raw