VIP Class Notes (Joe)
Grammar
An athlete social plan and CNY social plan to my client
An athlete’s social plan and a CNY social plan to my client
I recommend you to see this movie
I recommend you see this movie
I recommend that you should see this movie
I recommend seeing this movie
We recommend that somebody should do something
We recommend doing something
We recommend somebody do something
We advise you to do something
Recommend – it’s an idea for something you may want to do
Advice – more serious. It’s something that you should do
Question: What’s up?
Answer: Not much / Nothing much / same old same old / nothing special
Question: How are you? How have you been? How are things?
Answer: Not bad / Good / Great
I always worked hard (talking about a period of time that has finished)
I always work hard (usually / always / these days)
Make small talk = talk about things that are not important
Pronunciation
CNY – see en why
Senses – sen siz
Nostalgic – No sta:l jik
Vocabulary
Plot– the story of a book or movie
The plot is not very good
The franchise went downhill after the third one
Nostalgic (adj) – the feeling you get when you remember being younger
Seeing the car I used to drive when I was younger made me nostalgic
Seeing the old movie again makes me nostalgic
Nostalgia (noun)
Nostalgia can be valuable
Molten (adj) – when a solid turns to liquid from too much heat
He held on to the chain and lowered himself to the molten metal
Fall (verb) – uncontrolled going down
He fell down from the tree
Lower (verb) – controlled going down
He lowered himself into the molten metal
Predict (verb) – guess what will happen in the future
His father predicted that he would not graduate from university.
Climax (noun) – the most interesting / exciting point in the movie
Predictable (adj) – something can be predicted
the bad movies always have a predictable plot
Predictable – pri dik ti bil
Anti-climax – the part that should be really interesting but it’s not
There was a huge anti-climax at the end of the plot
Sense (verb) – to know something through feeling
My dog senses my emotions
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