VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Have a look at the national geographic books

Money is not everything

I think money is not everything, but it’s very useful and important. Money can give you safe, and especially in this material world. I’m a girl but I’m not a feminist. In my opinion, I think man and woman are equal, and we should be a independent person. As reports the quantity of women in China buying a house is raising. That means more and more women can earn a lot of money. The economic independent brings them spiritual independent, so women don’t need to depend on a man to live. I think this is a progress of society, and this is also a good part that money bring us.

Money is not everything
I think money is not everything, but it’s very useful and important. Money can give you safety, especially in this material world. I’m a girl but I’m not a feminist. In my opinion, I think men and women are equal, and we should be independent people. Based on the report / According to the report, the quantity of women in China buying a house is rising, which means (that) more and more women can earn a lot of money. The economic independence brings them spiritual independence, so women don’t need to depend on a man to live. I think this is a progress of society, and this is also a good part that money bring us.

Vocabulary

I’m dead
Death is bad
I am dying
I have died 

I have a computer which is black and it’s really good = new information about my computer
I have a computer that is black and really good = the black part is just a side-note

rise / rose / risen – sth goes up (passive)
raise / raised / raised – to make sth go up

exaggerate = kua zhang
eg. Jesse always exaggerates how busy he is

extend – longer
expand – bigger

I added VIP to your name as a symbolic gesture

gesture – a movement that has some meaning

cuffs – around your wrist
collar – around your neck
sleeve – around your arm
pant – around your leg

cuff-links = jewelry that holds your cuffs together

equator – the middle line of the earth
eg. China is above the equator

current – moving water

arctic – related to The Arctic / Antarctica / snow / ice etc
eg. I have an arctic jacket