VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)

Teach speed reading by eliminating prepositional phrases, so review prepositions, what they are.

Pronunciation

the / there / thur / -TH WORDS **SAY THEM SLOWER WITH TONGUE IN BETWEEN TEETH**

becruz / becuz / BECAUSE / BEE-CUH-ZZ SHANG-KE / BEE-KEE-Z / -AU

cars / be-cars

Grammar

sometimes it not work very well / sometimes it doesn’t work very well

from my side / from my perspective

Vocabulary

climb higher / business way of saying “going up” or increasing

loading up / to add to or stockpile a big amount of stocks or anything

e.g. I can load up on bubble tea.

edge higher / to slowly, inch by inch, go higher

to slump / slumping / is to briefly go down, to decrease

Wall Street treads water / trying really hard to keep your mouth above water so you don’t drown and in this case, the stock markets is trying to keep its mouth above water meaning not go into negative territory

inverse relationship / as one goes up the other goes down

faring / how are they doing

e.g. How is the marketing faring today?

democracy / a form of govt where people vote for who is the leader

democrats / democratic / the party

to extort / extortion / blackmail

hype / excitement or high anticipation

e.g. Barack Obama was the most hyped politician in the history of American politics.

proponent 支持者 / supporter

wrestle / 搏斗