VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)(S/R)

Imagine you have a friend who is suffering from seasonal depression – what advice would you give them?

I think being because to be a famous person will give you more opportunities in life. You will have a good life to be a if you are a rich man/Rich people usually have good lives.  Because I’m not famous. Maybe it fame won’t wouldn’t let me feel comfortable. Money is not very important in life – money is not the all everything – but we cannot live without money. I still would prefer to be a famous person.

I go to the gym twice a week, and I have my/a personal trainer – and when I was a child it’s it was hard for me to imagine that I can could dance – I learned ballet when I was child – or a little girl. For my mental health, I like to talk with my friend who was is very optimistic/an optimistic person – To keep a healthy perspective I like to spend time outdoors and go outside and go traveling.

Grammar

Use “wouldn’t” and “couldn’t when the situation isn’t real – it’s hypothetical (假设).

won’t vs. wouldn’t

can’t vs. couldn’t

the people who are not born in Shanghai /

Usually you don’t need to use the word THE / use it only if you are talking about ONE very SPECIFIC thing that everyone knows you are talking about

e.g. In China you should be mindful of the laws because the government is very strong.

e.g. The governments of the world usually work together.

Usually you should take away THE and make the noun PLURAL.

e.g. The man usually like to drink beer / Men usually like to drink beer.

e.g. Nick is the man! You are really cool!

Vocabulary

depressed / so sad you can’t move / very very deep sadness

e.g. Do you ever get depressed?

seasonal depression / this is the sadness many people get when the seasons change and the weather becomes cold

e.g. Everyone get seasonal depression sometimes.

clinical depression / depression diagnosed by a doctor and they say this is a very serious sadness that doesn’t go away – and usually you need to take medicine

e.g. Clinical depression, if untreated, can lead to suicide.

vegan / no animal products, no sugars

anorexic / 厌食 症

figure / 身材

e.g. The models of Victoria’s Secret have incredible figures!

procrastinate / procrastinator / 拖延 / when you wait until the last second to do something

lifting weights / to lift weights

e.g. Michelle lifts weights at the gym. She enjoys weight lifting. She enjoys lifting weights.

cardio / any activity that gets your heart rate beating fast and gets you sweating – running

e.g. Running and swimming are both good cardio exercises.

to quote / to say something someone else said “word-for-word” – not a summary

e.g. Phoebe gave a great talk at work and I quoted her in an article I wrote about it.

e.g. “Nicholas’ lessons are so great”, Phoebe was quoted as saying.

to flee / fled / to run away from something

e.g. Phoebe fled the classroom because Nicholas’ lessons as so boring.

to seek / to look for

e.g. I am seeking a job opportunity in the finance sector.

refuge / a safe place / REF-YOOJ

e.g. The homeless man fled fame to seek refuge.

refugee / this is a person who leaves one country because it’s not safe anymore

sensation / a feeling in your body / a person that everyone thinks is amazing and they become famous very quickly

e.g. When I was young I touched the stove top and felt a hot burning sensation in my hand.

e.g. The homeless man became very famous – he was an internet sensation!

vagabond / a homeless person

to defy / to go against what most people normally do in society

e.g. Michelle defied the traffic rules and drove her car very fast! She was defying the law.

a stereotype / this is usually an unfair way of thinking about someone just because of how they look / stereotypes may be true for many people in a group, but not true for all or every person in the group

e.g. The stereotype of a homeless person is that they are lazy, stupid, and poor. But this man wasn’t these things – he defied this stereotype.

e.g. There is a common stereotype of Chinese people among Americans – and the stereotype of a Chinese person is: good at math, bad at driving, and speaks with a funny accent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-internet-was-obsessed-with-this-philosophy-quoting-homeless-man-in-china-now-hes-fled-the-fame/2019/04/01/519e43e2-5220-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html?utm_term=.0c18e4f3d464

The Internet was obsessed with this philosophy-quoting homeless man in China. Now he’s fled the fame.

BEIJING — The “Vagrant Master” has been offline for more than a week.

The last time people saw him, the scrawny 52-year-old known
as Shen Wei was being escorted into a white Mercedes-Benz by a middle-aged man in an orange jacket.

When asked where he was going, Shen replied, “To seek refuge.”

But even before he could get into the car, a man in his 20s ran up to ask for an autograph. Shen turned to sign the fan’s notebook.

China’s latest Internet sensation isn’t a wildcat locked in a staring contest with her zookeeper, a wealthy businessman caressing his thousand-dollar pet ducks or a children’s choir dedicating a whole song to tech giant Huawei.

He is a vagabond who doesn’t have a social media account and doesn’t own a smartphone. He defied stereotypes: Shen is educated and eloquent, and he provides for himself. He is dubbed the Vagrant Master or Master Shen on the Chinese Internet, and his every word has been recorded by live-streamers, shared across social media in the form of 15-to-30-second videos and closely watched and analyzed by millions.

After three months of stardom, he’d had enough.

“I blame no one, but I hate the Internet,” Shen told Chinese newspapers on March 22, at the height of his fame. “The Internet has brought me nothing but trouble.”