VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

cook – dinner / pizza / dumplings / fried rice
make – coffee / tea / cake / drink

barista – the person who makes the coffee
eg. I asked the barista to give me a latte with less milk

barrister – lawyer

bartender – a person who makes drinks at a bar

experiment – shi yan
eg. the siphon coffee is like a scientific experiment

skim milk – low fat milk
skim – to go along the top of some liquid
eg. I skimmed a rock on the lake

customise / customize
eg. I like to customize my coffee

agency – zhong jie
eg. I sent my house to a real estate agency

mark – shows sth / a small something
sign – sth that warns you / informs you

interchange / transfer – to change from 1 type of transport to another

phonetics (old) / phonics (new)

economy – country finance

strengths (good) < > weaknesses (bad)

Grammar

can told – can tell
should told – should tell
must told – must tell  

i can listening – I can listen 

not noisy to the neighborhood – is not noisy / doesn’t bother the neighbors with noise 

it’s really my home – that’s my true home / real home 

make it really good – nice / comfortable 

it was not good for his business – his business development was not very good / his business wasn’t going very well

Pronunciation

latte – la tay 
cafe – ka fay