VIP Class Notes (Li)[W]

Pick a reading of your choice:  https://breakingnewsenglish.com

Summarise the reading using your own words. Avoid translating into Chinese first.

Adjectives

Vocabulary

apartment – housing with floors

department – a part of an organisation such as a school, business, government etc.

abroad – overseas

ex. She would like to study abroad.

ex. He went abroad for 3 years to live in many countries.

oxygen – O2

safety briefing – a talk about safety

Grammar

present perfect tense – time before – until now

has/have + past participle (3rd past tense) 

ex. I have never been to Tibet.

ex. She has eaten raw fish in Japan.

ex. The children have never travelled abroad.

adj endings 

-ful

colourful, beautiful, plentiful, meaningful

-less

odorless, colourless, meaningless, painless

-ing

boring, amazing, swimming pool, horrifying

-ed

bored, amazed, amused,

-y

sleepy, funny, scary

My friend Jia J set up a new company focus on providing traveling services in 2010 who would like to brand his business to his friend firstly. So he created a 22 days trip named big Circle Line from Qinghai to Tibet. In this period, I was never being to Tibet, in that case, I was very interested in this trip. I persuaded my mother to allow me with Jia’s trip. My mother covered the whole trip cost for me around 15,570 RMB

Jia had 7 SUVs and hired 7 drivers, but unfortunately, on the first day, 5 SUVs had broken. They spend one day to fix 5 SUVs.I can’t understand why they didn’t prepare well. It is not a good memory for the beginning stage.

A lot of detail I can’t remember, but one thing I will never forget. One day one Car fell down the hill. We tried a lot of times to pull the car, but it is really hard to pull it up，At the moment，around 10 stronger local men came here，We can know what would be happened ，we were worried about it. Before the trip, Jia set safe training and shared with us that some local man very dangerous. All of us quite stressed when they closed with us.  However, 10 local men came to the car directly and help us to pull the car up. Jia wanted to give them money for appreciation. They didn’t accept and said we are Chinese and we should help each other. It touched me a lot，meanwhile  I felt regretful and ashamed for my personal bias.

Revised: 

My friend Jia J set up a new company that is focused on providing travel services in 2010 and he offered his services to his friends first. So he organised/planned a 22 days trip named Big Circle Line from Qinghai to Tibet. Before that, I have never been to Tibet, as such, I was very interested in this trip. I persuaded my mother to allow me to go on Jia’s trip. My mother covered the whole cost of the trip which is around 15,570 RMB.

Jia had 7 SUVs and hired 7 drivers, but unfortunately, on the first day, 5 SUVs were broken. They spent one day to fix 5 SUVs. I couldn’t understand why they didn’t prepare well. It left a bad memory for me/It was a negative experience for me.   

I can’t remember a lot of details, but there is one thing I will never forget. One day, one car fell down the hill. We tried many times to pull the car, but it was really hard to pull it up. At the moment, around 10 stronger local men came here. We didn’t know what would be happen so we were worried about it. Before the trip, Jia organised a safety briefing and shared with us that some local men are very dangerous. All of us were quite stressed when they came close to us.  However,  these 10 local men came to the car directly and help us to pull the car up. Jia wanted to give them money for appreciation. They didn’t accept and said we are Chinese and we should help each other. It touched me a lot meanwhile,  I felt regretful and ashamed for my personal bias.

Pronunciation

colleague – coh-leek