VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

quarantine / isolation – ge li

symptoms – pneumonia / breathing difficulties / fever / dry cough

phlegm 

contagious – able to give to others
eg. yawning is very contagious

vaccine (medicine) / vaccination (process) / vaccinate (v)

Corona Virus / COVID-19 “koe vid” – Corona Virus Disease 2019

petition 

familiarize myself

not very essentially to use English

rigorous – intense / lots of time and effort required
eg. the mock interviews are very rigorous

liquidate – sell all your assets to get cash

2003 – 2 thousand and 3 

2020 / 2019
2o03 = 20 oh 3

1995 – 19, 95

homemates / housemates / flatmates / roommates 

to be considerate 

(objective / specific) status / condition / situation (subjective / general)

and between the hundred – ten

150
105
0.105
1500

150,180,650
groups of 3 (hundred, thousand, million, billion)
and between hundred – ten
say “oh” for zeros at the “ten” point – eg. 105 = 1 oh 5

1,500,000
1.5m
10.9b

1560 – 1 thousand 500 and 60

+ * / – =

150m

1.5m = 1 point 5 / 1 million 500 thousand

Grammar

accustomed with – to