VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W / S]

Next Class Focus

review today’s vocabulary again and choose some of the words to use in the next writing homework.

Homework

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

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Vocabulary

have a test / exam – kao shi

memorize words – bei dan ci

qualifications 
eg. I want to get more qualification

education – get a masters / PhD etc

have a business trip
eg. I will have a business trip next week for 3 days

read it out loud

and so on = etc (etcetera) – “et set ter ra”

theme – topic / design / feeling / idea
eg. what you’re talking about now is the theme for your next meetup activity

prove – make sb sure of sth
improve – make sth better

trust – I can rely on you / I know you will support me
believe – true or not
eg. Jesse is a good person so I trust him. But he told me he is from China, and I don’t believe him.

believe in – you have confidence in sth / you think it’s real
eg. I don’t believe in santa – I think he’s not real
eg2. My mum and dad have always believed in me – they always support and think I will be successful

I have high standards for my students = I expect a lot from them

Writing exercise

A plan of our activities
Due to the novel corona-virus,Our meetup offline chat activities have to be stopped. I discussed with my partner about our activities’ plan. We decided to go online, like shooting vlog. We will publicize our vlog via Douyin,xiaohongshu,bilibili and so on. About the content of vlog, we will divide it into conversation and chat, reading and sharing, life recording, beauty dress matching, etc.
My partner have been setting up a place for our video these days, and the first video’s draft was ready. We are going to start shooting the fist video in late March.

A plan of our activities
Due to the novel corona-virus,Our meetup offline chat activities had to be stopped. I discussed with my partner about our activities’ plan and / so we decided to go online, like shooting a vlog. We will publicize our vlog via Douyin,xiaohongshu, bilibili and so on. About the content of the vlog, we will divide it into conversation and chat, reading and sharing, life recording, beauty dress matching, etc.
My partner has been setting up a place for our video these days, and the first video’s draft is ready. We are going to start shooting the first video in late March.

Speaking exercise

next week we will take a activity. the topic is modern love  / marriage. due to the corona virus, many people divorced and many young people don’t want to marry. The divorce rate went up and the marriage rate drops so we want to talk about this problem. i want to listen / hear other people’s thinking. our leader yao qiu is when i visit our customer we must take a photo to prove that I really come there. He doesn’t believe us so when I went to a customer once I took a photo at there and the bao an ma wo and he said why you take a photo and who are you, so I’m very embarrassed. I think it’s very ridiculous so I don’t want to tell him.

next week we will have / put on / arrange an activity. the theme is modern love  / marriage. due to the corona virus, many people have been divorcing / are divorcing and many young people don’t want to marry / get married. The divorce rate went up / rose / increased and the marriage rate dropped / decreased so we want to talk about this problem. i want to listen / hear other people’s thinking / ideas / perspectives / points of view. our leader‘s requirements / expectations / demands is when we visit our customers we must take a photo to prove that I really went there. He doesn’t trust us so when I went to a customer once I took a photo at there and the security got angry with me / told me off and he said “why did you take a photo and who are you”, so I was very embarrassed. I thought it was very ridiculous so I didn’t want to tell him.