VIP Class Notes – Judy – (Nicholas)

Judy

Pronunciation

breaking / BRAKE-ING

earning / ERR-NING

require / RUH-KWIRE

Vocabulary

“you’re a good read” / “do you have a good read on people” 

e.g. I’m a pretty good read of people.

e.g. Judy is a great read of people.

“I can size people up pretty quickly” / sizing people’s personalities

only-child

e.g. He has no siblings, he’s an only-child.

negative connotation  / the feeling of a word or the true meaning of the word

e.g. Calling someone an only-child usually had a negative connotation.

home-schooled kids / kids are educated by their parents

e.g. Being known as a home-schooled usually had a negative connotation attached to it.

to teach / to educate

e.g. Nicholas can educate his kids.

e.g. Nicholas can teach his kids.

teaching / education

e.g. Nicholas’ teaching is very good.

e.g. Nicholas’ education is very good.

snowflakes / a person that is too fragile – a very rude term

fragile / very easily broken

e.g. The vase in the museum is very fragile.

e.g. She cried because she was too fragile.

to embrace / to accept it / to huge

e.g. Judy embraced Jesse after a long day of work.

e.g. More students = more work and this is something they have just embraced.

“through the roof” / really really high

IQ / book smarts

e.g. The Nobel Prize is given to a person usually with a very high IQ.

EQ / street smarts

e.g. My friend Shane had terrible grades, but great street smarts

“what comes first: the chicken or the egg?”

e.g. Do we make judgements / stereotypes: What comes first: the judgement or the reason for the judgement.

revenue / the money you “pull-in” or bring in or make total

profit / revenue minus the expenses

margins / this is how much money you actually make on each sale – its the difference between the price and the cost

Speaking exercise

It’s depend on how much they can get for the company – I think people who have good job and they think they can get promote – who also has good education – they don’t want to have baby too early – but if they from small city – they probably don’t know how to defy their parents – because they think the baby are the – you know if someones a farmer then they ned more people to – or they need a boy.

It depends on how much they can get/make / [how valuable they are] for the company – I think people who have a good job and they think they can get promoted – who also have a good education – they probably don’t want to have a baby too early – but if they are from a small city – they probably don’t know how to defy their parents – because they think the baby are the – you know if someones a farmer then they need more people to work the farm – or they need a boy.

The – rarely use this word – only when there is ONE that we are talking about e.g. the government 

A – use this when you are talking about ONE OF MANY e.g. from a small city 


I think its depends on how the parents teach / educate their kids because sometimes the parents just treat the – if they just have one kid – they let them do wahtever they want and then the kid will be too selfish – and you know like that guy on the bridge they just too weak – can’t handle anything.

I think it depends on how the parents teach / educate their kids/children because sometimes the parents just treat the – if they just have one kid – they let them do whatever they want/[they spoil them] and then the kid will be too selfish – and you know like that guy on the bridge they are just too weak – also they can’t handle anything.

Connect all of your ideas – and, and, also.


Amazon pulls in $3.6 billion profit and says it will offer free one-day shipping

If they parents don’t have enough money – they shouldn’t have kids or at least shouldn’t have more than one kid – mass tests is not that far though – you know some peoples IQ is very high but their EQ is very low – I think those people also shouldn’t have kids. I think EQ is more important if your IQ is really high but you dont know how to social with people or deal with your colleague friend or whatever – you really hard to get a higher level.

If their parents don’t have enough money then they shouldn’t have kids or at least they shouldn’t have more than one kid – mass tests/mass testing is not that fair though – you know some peoples IQ is very high but their EQ is very low – I think those people also shouldn’t have kids. I think EQ is more important – if your IQ is really high but you don’t know how to socialize with people or deal with your colleagues friends or whatever – it will be really hard for you to get a higher level.

Reading

Amazon brought in a record $3.6 billion in profit during the first quarter of 2019, more than doubling its profit from a year ago and continuing its streak of record-breaking earnings.

The company’s lucrative advertising and cloud computing businesses notched the bulk of its profits and helped boost margins even as sales growth slowed. Overall, first-quarter sales rose 17 percent to $59.7 billion, compared to sales growth of 46 percent last year.

Amazon executives said Thursday they are working to offer free one-day shipping to the company’s 100 million Prime members, which will require an $800 million investment during the second quarter. The retailer currently offers free two-day shipping on most Prime orders.