VIP Class Notes Judy (Nicholas)

Use the last two notes as your “guide” – they have all the rules you need.

For the next classes, we will just practice using those rules.

Practice pronunciation & making things sound more native style.

Pronunciation

it /et

bin / shin / lid / hid / lit

fairly / faily

fear / hear / liar

turned / tinned

r sound / re shui

short i

Vocabulary

empower – to give someone power

frustrates

Grammar

What doesn’t matter?

It doesn’t matter.

im working in medicine company

that make me much more free

I think the most important part/reason

rather than

e.g. You should do this rather than this.

whether

e.g. Whether you agree or not, you’re going to do it.

subject + verb + object

comparing two things = than

if + then

Original

I think most of people took drugs it’s because they think legal things is cool – they are different to other people – especially for people who’s really young – and when it becomes to something everyone can do – people can actually have more choices. If smoking and drinking is legal, I just don’t understand why drugs should be illegal of course you can control it in some ways not just make them all illegal. I think’s also need to be legal – like doesn’t matter if its legal or not people just doing it so why you just make it legal and make things more organized – I think they should have license for that – It’s just because and government start to think its under control.

Corrected

I think the reason most of people take drugs is because they think illegal things are cool – they are different than other people – especially for people when they are really young – and when it becomes something everyone can do – people can actually have more choices. If smoking and drinking are legal then I just don’t understand why drugs should be illegal of course you can control it in some ways rather than just make them all illegal. I think it also needs to be legal – like it doesn’t matter whether its legal or not people are still doing it so why don’t you just make it legal and make things more organized – I think they should have a license for that – It’s just because and the government started to think its under control.

Rule #2

Could vs. Can / Can’t

e.g. Zahra I can’t open the door. Zahra I am unable to open the door.

e.g. I couldn’t open the door.

Would vs. Will / Won’t

Would = Non real, not a real situation

e.g. If I gave you one million dollars would would you do with it?

e.g. I would buy a house, buy a wife, etc.

Original

I will train more hard and trying to be a professional body builder – when I was 18 years old I went to the gym – there are lots of professional people there and one of the girl become to really famous now so she really – envied her life – she said to me like “I had all the things she want” but I told her we just want to have different things we don’t have – she said to me 3 years ago – now she’s the first woman who get pro card in China – IFFB program. I would probably find a dance teacher for myself – I loved to dance when iw as a kid – but my father told me that is not something important – you’d rather save time to study.

Corrected

I would train harder and try to be a professional body builder – when I was 18 years old I went to the gym – there were lots of professional people there and one of the girls became to really famous now so she really – envied my life – she said to me like “I had all the things she wanted” but I told her we just wanted to have different things we don’t have – she said this to me 3 years ago – now she became the first woman who got a pro card in China – the IFFB program. I would probably find a dance teacher for myself – I loved to dance when I was a kid – but my father told me that was not something important – you’ should save time to study.

When talk about things that people usually do, we use the PLURAL noun.

e.g. Students treat Jesse differently.

e.g. Chinese people are rich.

Original

It’s depends on how I want to use them for – so if I just want a teacher first they need to be patient or they can be able to act like they’re patient – their personality shouldn’t be too weird – also I don’t hire people who think they’re awesome – it’s really hard to manage them – they kind of need to be smart but not too smart – so you have to good at manage things with people – it doesn’t matter if you actually care about their feeling but you have to make your customers think money is not the only important thing for you – you sell things to your customer but don’t make it too obvious – you make a good – for your staff but make them feel comfortable there but also make sure they do their job – so the things is im also the customer manager so you know lots of student treat foreigner different to cheese especially Jesse as their teacher so that act like everything is fine when they talk to Jesse but when they turn to me they are totally aggressive – they just dont tell Jesse the truth and they let me manage the hard part – and you know like if Jesse told them im probably not going to teach anymore.

Corrected

It depends on what I want to use them for / how I want to use them – so if I just want a teacher first they need to be patient or they’re able to act like they’re patient – their personality shouldn’t be too weird – also I don’t hire people who think they’re awesome / arrogant / overconfident – it’s really hard to manage them – they kind of need to be smart but not too smart – so you have to be good at managing things with people – it doesn’t matter if you actually care about their feelings but you have to make your customers think money is not the only important thing for you – you sell things to your customer but don’t make it too obvious – you make your staff feel comfortable there but also make sure they do their job – so the thing is I’m also the customer manager so you know lots of students treat foreigners differently especially if they have Jesse as their teacher so they act like everything is fine when they talk to Jesse but when they turn to me they are totally aggressive – they just dont tell Jesse the truth and they let me manage the hard / difficult part – and you know like if Jesse told them im probably not going to teach anymore.