VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Homework

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Write about the following topic:

Some people choose to eat no meat or fish. They believe that this is not only better for their own health but also benefits the world as a whole.

Discuss this view and give your own opinion.

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Write at least 250 words.


great – not many “uhh” / “umm” so much clearer and easier to follow

good connection between each slide – “on the next slide i’ll show you how to do it”

could have more up and down rather than all 1 tone


Vocabulary

let’s move on to the next slide where we’re looking at / where we’d like to show you 

there’s no question that – 100% / definitely

in spite of the fact that

Grammar

we need to be more impactful / we need to make more of an impact 

decreased by / to around 70%

we not recommendwe don’t recommend / it is recommended that we don’t 

bore / bored / boring 
tire / tired / tiring 
annoy / annoyed / annoying

I bore you.
You were bored by me. = You are bored.
I am boring you. = I am boring.

happy / simple / easy – pure adjectives 

Speaking exercise

I only write during some meetings, I need to take some notes, because my typing speed is lower than my writing so I will use the writing, but in my daily life like write some diary or some paper work i will use the computer to do some typing. From the ecofriendly side we should use less papers as possible.

Maybe just when I was a young child I just start to learn how to writing and when I a teenager I start to learn how to typing.

I think in terms of the chinese culture yes it is, someone say you see someone’s writing is very beautiful and you say he will be a very kind person, but his writing is very bad or messy, maybe he is a bad student, he is not good at study.

I only write during some meetings, I need to take some notes, because my typing speed is lower than my writing so I will just write, but in my daily life, (if I want to do something like) such as writing a diary or some paper work i will use the computer to do some typing. From the ecofriendly side of things / side of the argument / from an ecofriendly perspective we should use as little paper as possible.

Maybe just when I was a young child I just started to learn how to write and when I was / became a teenager I started to learn how to type.

I think in terms of the chinese culture, yes it is, it’s a common idea that if someone’s writing is very beautiful, then they must be a very kind person, but if their writing is very bad or messy, maybe they are bad students, and not good at study.