VIP Class Notes (Li)

What’s the best invention in the past one hundred years?

Vocabulary

handicraft/hand-made

one-on-one/one-to-one – 1 v 1

one-by-one – one at a time

ex. Come and get your lunch one-by-one at a time.

children under 10/below the age of.…

hosting – the activity of being the presenter of a tv show/programme

martial arts – like Kungfu, karate etc.

Grammar

outgoing – more outgoing

ex. I was more outgoing in primary school.

Some people are also good at hand work

Some people are also good at handicrafts 

People in the service industry it is also good for them to improve their practical skills

People that work in the service industry should also improve/develop their practical skills

We put more energy into examinations we don’t have enough time to practice

We put more energy/effort into preparing for examinations but we don’t have enough time to practice practical skills 

Judge one people good or not

Judge whether one person is good or not

Don’t be more stressful on kids. If they don’t like it you don’t need to push them or you will put more stress on them

Don’t put more stress on your kids. If they don’t like it then you don’t need to push them or you will put more stress on them/make them more stressful 

I always had to do many examinations

I always had to take/sit-in many examinations

Get this ability

Learn/Develop this skill

If some children are not into unfamiliar people

If some children are uncomfortable with strangers 

Kids are more likely white paper

Kids are (more) like white paper

Which skill do you think is more important, academic or practical?

As far as I am concerned, both of them are important. But compared with academic skill, practical skill is the priority. Because academic skill is hard for people to understand it quickly, which has many abstract concepts. In addition, it’s easy to say it rather than apply it. Sometimes, academic skill is out of realistic. However, the academic skill also can help people to improve the problems in real life, which is systematic. If people have got practical skill , it’s better for them to learn the academic knowledge to find some new ideas.

Revised: 

As far as I am concerned, both of them are important. But, compared with academic skill, practical skill is the priority/most valuable. Because academic skill is hard/difficult for people to understand it/absorb quickly because it has/consists of many abstract concepts. In addition, it’s easier in theory than in practice.  Sometimes, academic skill is not realistic. However, it is more systematic and it would help people to improve their organisation skills. If people have attained/learnt practical skills, it’s better for them to learn extra/additional academic knowledge to find/create some new ideas.