VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)(S/R)

What advice would you give a friend who is going through a “break up” with her boyfriend or girlfriend? What is the best thing to do to make yourself feel better?

Vocabulary

to curate / to carefully choose or select something for a gallery or for a show or for a store

e.g. Some artists have galleries where they curate the best pieces of art from all over the world.

to thrift or go “thrifting” / to go into clothing stores that are usually only for very poor or homeless people

e.g. Somtimes you can find really fashionable and interesting clothing in thrift shops.

to book a tour / to schedule a tour

to be convinced / 相信

To coincide with / to exist next to / 以配合与

e.g. Usually high level art and architecture coincide with one another.

e.g. The fashion world closely coincides with the music industry.

methods / 方法

e.g. The murderer tried many different methods to capture the perfect scent (smell).

scent / how you smell, what you smell like

e.g. Your personal scent and your personal style are important aspects of who you are.

to break up with / to end a relationsip

e.g. Cida broke up with her boyfriend. (You did not want him).

e.g. Cida’s boyfriend broke up with her. (He didn’t want you).

e.g. Oh they broke up. Well who broke up with who? It was mutual.

IELTS Friends Section

We are always go to the gallery, or drink coffee together, go shopping and we even go to cinema together. We have common hobbies/interests and we like to play tennis together. I have know her for 5 years. Last Saturday was the last time I saw her– we finished after we finish this class we her and I will to eat dinner. She doesn’t have a boyfriend. She just broken broke up with her boyfriend/ they just broke up. It’s OK for her because that boy doesn’t wasn’t good – he had poor character / character flaws his character doesn’t well – he is usually in a crappy/bad mood . I have just a few close friends – I think I must to have to reduce useless social conversations and non-productive chatting with stranger people that aren’t close to me. She is my classmate from university. I prefer to spend time with my family – first I love them, my mother is a very open minded woman and we have a cute dog – he’s very big and very cute so I prefer like to go to be home – I prefer to be alone sometimes because I want to/value my independent times alone time so that I can to read some I interesting articles about part in fashion or film or something – my friends are not interested in such things this part. She likes food or some star Korean stars/celebrities – she loves some pop stars, I don’t know who he is is he – she always talk to me more and more about some handsome boys information. She is a beautiful – and a have a warm hearted girl – she have has a positive attitude toward life.

IELTS History Section

Oh yes – I was watching a TV show it was an English TV show。Because I like the costumes so in their show they have many beautiful clothes from that era generation  and the story describes a beautiful garden and the host and his girls/daughters’ story. So I like this show. Yes history is like a mirror – we can look at what people did before before the people what to do. History can remind us and give us some advice and provide us with the knowledge.If you are self-disciplined / are a self disciplined person you could to can use YouTube or some other websites to look for videos about history, if you not a self disciplined person you could just go to the library to a quiet corner and you bring a book and to read reading. I like to know learn about some designers because their brands were often to borne is in very difficult circumstances so I want to know learn about a famous brand’s his boss, his designers, is and how they create this work to creative this/his work.

Grammar

When did you see her last v.s When will you see her next

e.g. I saw her last Saturday.

e.g. I will see her next Saturday.

When Lolo Zouaï’s team booked her first tour—a quick spin through Paris, London, Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles—she was convinced no one would show up. Not only did every show sell out, she was stunned to see girls in the crowd already wearing her signature look: oversize hoops and a beret.

That was less than a year ago, and while the 23-year-old musician is still shocked by her soaring popularity (her breakout hit, “High Highs to Low Lows,” has 6.7 million hits and counting on Spotify) and the thousands of Instagram fans she gains on a daily basis, her rapid success isn’t a happy coincidence. In fact, Zouaï has spent years preparing for this moment, first by quietly working behind the scenes with other artists, like H.E.R., and then by gradually building a social media following. That’s where her unique style comes into play: Before she’d released a single song, young women and men were already double-tapping photos of her pastel hair and sexy-tomboy mix of thrifted NASCAR jackets, high-rise jeans, and Dr. Martens. When she visited Vogue’s offices last month, she was wearing a variation on that uniform: an oversize hoodie, vintage camouflage jacket, and, of course, a beret and hoops.

“I’ve pretty much had the same style since I was 16,” she said. “I’m upgrading it a bit now, though. I just started wearing blazers, which I love. I’m slowly maturing!” Zouaï spent a few years in Nashville (including a single semester in college), where she found much of her current wardrobe at Music City Thrift. Now she prefers the Goodwill in Queens. “I like stores that aren’t curated,” she explained. “They’re just expensive, and they’ve already done my job for me. Thrifting is one of my only other hobbies, and I like to do it alone. It’s my time to relax.”