VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)[S]

Original

I think it’s very difficult to move and become rich because my family is not rich, and I think the environment is not good this year. Many small company was  broken / failed and the price like the house price, the food price, traffic price, I think is expensive. People earned money is not easy, so I think become rich is very difficult.

But I think when you become better than before the network will change for the better.

But I think Japanese women have a glass ceiling too, and many Chinese women have it too. They think they can’t do something well or they don’t believe they can be better than the men.

Corrected

I think it’s very difficult to move up and become rich because my family is not rich, and I think the business environment / economy is not good this year. Many small companies were broken up/ failed and prices like housing prices, food prices, and traffic prices are expensive. Earning money is not easy for people, so I think the process of becoming rich is very difficult.

But I think when you become better than before your network will change for the better.

But I think Japanese women have a glass ceiling too, and many Chinese women have it too. They think they can’t do something well or they don’t believe they can be better than the men.

Original

I think change is difficult. We need more patience to change our behavior. My father like drink – I think he is an alcoholic. He drink wine everyday. My mother usually have an argument with him about the wine but he didn’t change. When he drink many wine, he will speak a lot of – he will say many many things – I don’t know what he want to describe. An app, it can show me many short video. I think it waste my time.

Corrected

I think change is difficult. We need more patience to change our behavior. My father likes drinking – I think he is an alcoholic. He drinks wine everyday. My mother usually has an argument with him / argues with him about the wine but he hasn’t changed. When he drinks many glasses of wine, he will speak a lot of – he will say many many things – I don’t know what he wants to describe. I am addicted to an app, it shows me many short videos. I think it wastes my time.

Grammar

worn vs. have won
Are you still doing it? =  Have + Past Tense Verb
Did you do it and you’re not doing it anymore?  = Past Tense Verb
I wear glasses in the age of 10 – I have worn glass since the age of 10
I worked in a bank in the USA
I have worked at Smart English for 1 year.
I lived in the US for 25 years.
I have lived in SH for 3 years.

changed vs. has not changed
he still has not changed
he didn’t change

becoming = process over time
to become / became = an event that happens once

I think becoming rich is difficult.
I think if you want to become rich, it is difficult.
I want to become rich.
The caterpillar becomes the butterfly.
The caterpillar is becoming the butterfly.
I became rich after many years.
My mother is afraid I am becoming too fat.
I am becoming too fat.
I have become too fat.
I became too fat in college.

Vocabulary

philosophy – noun
philosophical – adj

network – everyone who is in your life: friends, family, business colleagues
e.g. I think it’s difficult to become rich unless you have a rich network.
e.g. I have a friend from Belgium and I saw an interesting pattern: he is very wealthy because his family owns a business; and all of his friends are wealthy and own family businesses too.

coincidence – 巧合
e.g. Is it a coincidence that we are meeting now? Or is it an act of fate?

fate/destiny – 命运
e.g. Do you believe we all have one destiny?
e.g. Some people believe in destiny, and they say it is our job to find out what it is!
e.g. Do you believe in fate? I believe we are fated to know each other!

caste system – 种姓系统 – India
e.g. The case system in India is very rigid. If you’re born poor, you will stay poor

rigid – 刚性

ceiling – how high it can go
e.g. American women usually believe there exists a glass ceiling: it’s a limit to how high they can be promoted in the workplace and in society.
e.g. If Hillary Clinton won the Presidency in 2016, they had planned a party where they were going to celebrate in a big place that had a glass ceiling; because they thought if Hillary won, this is women breaking the glass ceiling.

exist – 存在 – to be
e.g. Children believe in monsters even though they do not exist.
e.g. The dinosaurs once existed many years ago, but a comet hit the earth, and wiped them out of existence.
e.g. People’s existence here on Earth is sometimes peaceful, and sometimes violent.
e.g. You live and exist; then you die and no longer exist.

floor – how low it can go

hitting rock bottom – this is the lowest point of your life
e.g. Many alcoholics talk about when their life hit rock bottom. At this point, they knew they had to change.

rabbit hole – doing an activity for many hours and not knowing how to get out
e.g. I would fall down a Youtube rabbit hole.
e.g. Hermia fell down a Douyin rabbit hole for many hours one night!

tarot cards – 塔罗
e.g. Draw a tarot card and it will tell you your fate!