VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Do more speaking and focus on self correction – past tense, longer sentences with conjunctions.

Vocabulary

How are you? / How’s it going? / How’re you going?

10 – great
7 – really good
6 – good (6) / pretty good (5-7)
5 – not bad
3 – just ok / fine

and you / how about you? / what about you? / you?

hello

nice to meet you / it’s a pleasure to meet you – only for first time

nice to see you / good to see you – every other time

it’s nice to finally meet you / I’ve heard a lot about you / it’s really nice to put a face to the name / it’s great to finally meet you in the flesh (face to face / in person)

how long’s it been? a year? time flies / wow it’s been that long?

goodbye 

it’s been a real pleasure / it’s been great seeing you / hanging out with you / spending time with you / talking to you / it was really nice seeing you again / well, that was great! / well, good talk

i’ll let you go (phone) / get back to it / get back to work

i’ll see you again soon / next time / next week?

bye (speaking but not writing) / goodbye – see you / see you later / see you soon / see you in a bit / cya / see ya / see ya later / catch you / catch you later / catchya / l8r / later

cheers – bye / thanks / gan bei

except (chu le) / expect (think sth will happen / is true / waiting for sth)

it’s raining cats and dogs / it’s pouring / it’s raining really hard / the rain is really heavy / it’s hammering it down / there’s a down pour

finger picking
eg. I am learning finger picking at the moment

I know that your name is Stella / I know your name is Stella

tweak / hone – improve sth

muscles – ji rou

i want to learn about it because in fact after my high school graduation and because i think i can have some times for learning about my hobbies and develop it and make it be strong / make it better. i learned about you will always say “hooo”. i correct my way of singing during 2 months. like i will always take lessons once a week for 1 hour each.

i wanted to learn it because in fact after my high school graduation and because i thought i could have some times for learning something that I’m interested in and develop it and make it better / improve it / hone it. i learned that you will always say “hooo”. i corrected my way of singing during the 2 months / over a 2 month period / over the period of classes. like i would always take / I always took lessons once a week for 1 hour each.