VIP Class Notes (Li)[S]

Vocabulary

incentive – sth that encourages a person to do something

hairline – the edge of a person’s hair

sesame – 芝麻

walnuts – 核桃

pluck – to pull something

ex. pluck hair/pluck your eyebrows

blonde hair – very light, like gold

highlight – make your hair a lighter colour before you dye it

it’s also a genetic problem 

contact lenses/contacts – 隐形眼镜

astigmatism – 散光

eg. I have high astigmatism.

I’ll put on/do my make-up and wear contacts

oxygen tank – 氧气桶

starfish – fish shaped like a star

I don’t want to do it again 

Grammar

up close – very close by

ex. Kids shouldn’t watch TV up close otherwise they’ll end up with bad eyesight.

upload/submit onto a system/database

I just study for the status of outdoor report. It almost recovered 80%.

We have extra holiday from our company. We always work OT so company will give extra holiday.

Half of a week I will work overtime. We have a system to calculate the working hour. I just upload in that system and I can see how much overtime.

I always spend one day of my weekend to finish my job.

You always have to think what you can say what you can’t say.

I think about it but I don’t have a lot of time.

I think long hair will make it worse.

If you want to get very light hair, you need to highlight it and then dye it.

I like watch TV very very close. At that time, I think it’s very cool to wear the glasses.

Revised: 

I looked up/searched for the travel report. It almost recovered by 80%.

We have extra holiday from our company. We always work OT so my company gave us extra days off. 

I will work overtime half of the week.. We have a system to calculate our work hours. I just upload onto the system and I can see how much overtime I’ve done. 

I always spend one day of my weekend to finish my work.

You always have to think about/consider what you can say and what you can’t say/what is appropriate to tell clients. 

I think about it but I don’t have a lot of/enough time.

I think having long hair will make it worse.

If you want to have very light hair, you need to highlight it and then dye it.

I like to watch TV up close. At that time, I think it was very cool to wear the glasses.