VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Writing exercise

As a exquisite girl, I take my skin care carefully everyday. Let me tell you my skin care steps, I do it everynight.
Step1:make move my make-up,like foundation and eye line, eye shadow…
Step2:use a warm cleanser clean my face
Step3:put toner on my face, do the second cleaning
Step4:put another kind of toner on my face, it can let my skin more moisturizer
Step5:put essence on my face, it likes to let my skin eat more nutrition
Step6:put some moisturizing and repair cream on my face
OK! Finish!
And I need to ues mask about 3 times one week, because my skin is a really dry skin.
Lest weekend I saw a news on Weibo, there is a news from BBC, which is some experiments tell us, a most of skin care products are unuseful for us.
Oppos! Maybe skin care is a hope and beautful dream for girl, but I like it.

As a delicate / sensitive girl, I take care of my skin carefully / I take my skincare very seriously everyday. Let me tell you my skin care steps, which I do every night.
Step 1: remove my make-up, like foundation and eye line, eye shadow etc
Step 2: use a warm cleanser to clean my face
Step 3: put toner on my face, which is for the second cleaning
Step 4: put another kind of toner on my face, which can make my skin more moist
Step 5: put essence on my face, which makes my skin take in / absorb more nutrition
Step 6: put some moisturizer and repair cream on my face
OK! Finished!
And I need to use masks about 3 times a week, because my skin is really dry.
Last weekend I saw some news on Weibo, where there was some news from BBC, which was about some experiments which told us that most skin / most of the skin care products are useless for us.
Oops! Maybe skin care is a hopeful and beautiful dream for girls, but I like it.

Vocabulary

I take my job really seriously = I do it carefully and well because I think it’s important (ren zhen)

phones make our lives more convenient – effect
phones let us call our friends and go online – allow you to do

I spend more money on skincare and less money on makeup

energetic – to have lots of energy
eg. after I drink coffee I’m more energetic

make up – v
eg. I made up a story about my brother – said a fake story / not true
make up – v
eg. I made up with my husband – we stopped fighting and now we’re happy
makeup – n
eg. I did my makeup before I went out – hua zhuang

moist
moisture
moisturize
moisturizer

describe
description
describer

I use some moisturizer to make my skin moist but after 2 hours my skin feels dry again and has less moisture. So I should moisturize twice a day.

flight – plane trip

Sorry / excuse me, I’ve booked my room already on booking.com and I know we can check in at 2pm but we’ve arrived early so would it be ok for us to leave our bags here and we’ll come back around 2?

Sorry / excuse me, I’ve booked my room already on booking.com and I know we can check in at 2pm, but are we able to check in now… or…..?

Credit Card – xing yong ka

Charge a deposit
I just wanted to let you know that I’ve already been charged the $100 deposit through booking.com

sightseeing / tourism 
eg. we are in Paris for sightseeing

public transport – gong gong jiao tong

Sorry, could you help me with something? / I was just wondering if you know where I can buy the…

Sorry, could you tell me how to get to …. / do you know how to get to the …. ?

duty free – tax free

Pronunciation

Berlin – ber LIN