VIP Class Notes Judy (Nicholas)[S]

Next Class Focus

Gameplan

Identify your 3 biggest speaking mistakes – and fix them immediately.

Identify our 80 new words and memorize them (only 5 new words a class).

Vocabulary

piss off / to be pissed off 

e.g. It really fucking pissed me off.

e.g. That really pisses me off.

e.g. I was so pissed off.

e.g. It pisses me off when teachers are late.

entrepreneur / entrepreneurial – ä¼ä¸šå®¶

e.g I’m an entrepreneur.

e.g. Ever since I was young, I was always entrepreneurial.

Grammar

Two verbs….First is in the past, second is in the present

so I used to worked work in a Taiwanese company

she was asking us to do overtime / she asked us to do overtime all the time

she think / she thought

all she was good at was making  our boss to think she was good but actually she did nothing good for the business

so she really doesn’t like / didn’t

Speaking exercise

Rule #1 – Be careful to speak in the past tense

Original

My ex-boss – ok so I actually met him like fifteen years ago, and so he’s really successful businessman and who’s really make people think he’s smart, gentle, and attractive – he’s the person who make me think if you wanna get something you have to work hard and find a smart way to do it – also there are nobody you should trust except yourself – just not right time – and I dont really wanna be with a father – he’s already start business and I was student – so whoever – so it doesn’t matter if your boyfriends rich or not never think he should give you the things you want – he might give you some experience you didn’t have but if you want that level of life you have to work on it and get it by your own.

Corrected

My ex-boss – ok so I actually met him like fifteen years ago, and so he was already a really successful businessman and he really made people think that he was smart, gentle, and attractive – he’s the type of person who made me think if you wanna get something you have to work hard and find a smart way to do it – also you should trust no one but yourself– just not the right time – and I didn’t really wanna be with a father – he had already started a business and I was a student – so whoever – so it doesn’t matter if your boyfriends rich or not you should never think he should give you the things you want – he might give you some experience you didn’t have but if you want that level of life you have to work on it and get it by your self.


Original

Sometimes it’s good – it’s really simple and natural – you just study and go out and have fun with the people you like – and you do things other people do even if its not what you really want – at that time social life was more important for me – it’s kind of friend I don think he’s my boyfriend we just go out watch movies – and im always good at school – I like it much more when I was 18 year sold I had a fight with my dad so I just move out and because I got a rich boyfriend so I can stay wherever the place I want and so I got a car – and the thing is I used that car to do Didi – and that ex-parent is really interesting for me – I was just near Xujiahui and after 10:30 night time people can’t go to Xinjiang of Minhang by train so they just take for stranger people will share one car and everyone will pay just 20 kuai – so I have a lots of things I dont need for example earrings or whatever so I take that out to my house on the street there are lots of people selling different stuff and I just sell all the things I dont want. This piss my father so much.

Corrected

Sometimes it’s good – it’s really simple and natural – you just study and go out and have fun with the people you like – and you do things other people do even if its not what you really want – at that time my social life was more important for me – it’s kind of friend I didn’t think he was my boyfriend we just went out and watched movies – and I was always good at school – I liked it much more. When I was 18 years old I had a fight with my dad so I just moved out and because I had a rich boyfriend so I could stay wherever I wanted and so I got a car – and the thing is I used that car to do Didi – and that experience was really interesting for me – I was just near Xujiahui and after 10:30 at night people couldn’t go to Xinzhuang or Minhang by train so they just took four strangers would share one car and everyone would pay just 20 kuai – so I had lots of things I didn’t need for example earrings or whatever so I took that out to my house on the street there were lots of people selling different stuff and I just sold all the things I didn’t want. This pissed my father off so much.