VIP Class Notes (Nicholas) [S]

Speaking exercise

He is a begging begs/is a beggar in the street and many people went to see him – they take took pictures with him and they wanted to send his pictures into all over the internet or many other social media platforms made the more popular themselves they wanted to make themselves more popular, I think it is not a good things.

I think I want more money more because I want a happier the life more happy. And I can do anything only if I have because money/if I have money then I can do anything I want/Money isn’t the most important thing for me – how I make the money is most important. I don’t think it’s not difficult to get money because I think my work is very special compared to ordinary workers so I have a lot of customers/clients which gives me  then I can get a lot of work choice opportunities.

Vocabulary

cooperate åˆä½œ / to work with each other / COO-OP-ER-ATE

e.g. I cooperate with different sponsors to fund the exhibit.

to fund / to pay for

the same way æ–¹å¼

social media platform / WeChat, QQ, Facebook, YouTube, Youku / platform = different kind of social media

e.g. Hey did you see the beggar on social media? No I didn’t! What platform was he on? Oh he was on WeChat.

e.g. There are many different social media platforms – WeChat, QQ…

adult / æˆäºº / not a child – a grown up person.

e.g. When you graduate college you must give up acting like a child – you must act like an adult!

responsibilities / 责任 / RESPONSE-UH-BILL-IT-TEE / the things you have to do like work and take care of your children, take a shower / the things you must do

e.g. When you become an adult, you have new responsibilities.

to be responsible (verb) 

e.g I am responsible for my wife.

e.g. Parents are responsible for their children.

upper class people / these are the rich people

e.g. Bankers, lawyers, famous singers are upper class people.

middle class people / these people aren’t rich, but they aren’t poor – just in the middle.

lower class people / these are the poor people who dont have any money

e.g. Lower class people are usually service workers and cleaners; and it’s difficult for them to make a lot of money.

customers / 客户 / these are the people who buy from you

clients / 客户 / these are higher-level, usually more sophisticated “customers” that buy from you – but this also have a relationship with you

environment / 环境 / pronounced IN-VIRE-MINT / the trees, the air, the water, the soil (土壤) – a clean earth / what is around you

e.g. In Shanghai, the pollution is not good for our environment.

e.g. Smart English is a very good work environment – the people are friendly, they have nice coffee, the office is nice looking.

to be concerned with / è¦å…³æ³¨çš„ / to worry about something / to focus on something very closely

e.g. The homeless man was very concerned with protecting the environment.

Grammar

a lot of Chinese people is work very hard

good artist have the same thing – very very beautiful and all of the people of the world can feel it

he painting painted so big the whole roof in the Sistine Chapel by himself

he do the / he can do

because I like to do it myself

because the two works the same is I want the many people know this thing (news or art) / because both of these jobs are the same

so the work is very similar

many failure projects / these companies have many failed projects

many foreigners come here to this museum

the first show is spend / the first show costs 20M

have not many choice / don’t have many choices

so we have more choice / so we have many more choices

we booking it / we book it

Pronunciation

he’s vs. his

the vs. da