VIP Class Notes (Raph)[S]

Vocabulary

Promotion (n): 1- the act of raising someone to a higher or more important position or rank.
E.g.: Did Steve get the promotion he wanted?
E.g.: She told her employee that she will get a promotion next year.
E.g.: He decided to leave the company because his boss refused to give him a promotion.

Prospect (n): 1- the possibility that something good might happen in the future.
E.g.: Is there any prospect of the weather improving?
E.g.: There’s not much prospect that this war will be over soon.
E.g.: He decided to leave the company because he felt that there were no prospects for him to get a promotion.
E.g.: She felt that she had no prospects for passing the test.

Policy (n): 1- a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a political party.
E.g.: They believe that Europe needs a common foreign and security policy.
E.g.: What is your party’s policy on immigration?

Scholarship (n): 1-
an amount of money given by a school, college, university, or other organization to pay for the studies of a person with great ability but little money.
E.g.: He got/won a scholarship to Harvard.
E.g.: Paula went to the Royal College of Music on a scholarship.

Additional (adj): 1- extra. (adv: Additionally)
E.g.: There will be an extra charge for any additional passengers.
E.g.: Additionally (= also), we request a deposit of $200 in advance.

Speaking exercise

Original:

After I moved to Shanghai, I really miss Hunan dishes, because Shanghai foods tastes a little bit sweet and the soap is thick, is different with Hunan foods. Hunan foods always made by a lot chili and pickles. If you eat Hunan foods you will eat more rice than eat Shanghai food. And in Hunan you have a lot of choice for breakfast, but in Shanghai we just got youtiao doujiang, xiaolongbao. And in Hunan you can got a lot of kinds of snacks for my nights, such like the barbecue near the street and some hot pot, but in Shanghai I haven’t found those things.

Edited:

Since I moved to Shanghai, I really miss Hunan dishes, because Shanghai food tastes a little bit sweet and their soup is thick, which is different from ours. Hunan food is usually made with a lot of chili and pickles which means that we need to eat more rice than people in Shanghai do. Additionally, in Hunan you have a lot of breakfast choices, but in Shanghai we just have youtiao, doujiang, xiaolongbao, etc.. In Hunan you can also get a lot of different night snacks, such as street barbecue and hot pot, but in Shanghai you can’t find those things.

Grammar

In the most of time. – Most of the time.

One half year. – One and a half year.

I have a colleague she graduated from England. – I have a colleague who got a degree in England. / graduated from an English university.

Pronunciation

Nibble: /ˈnɪb.l̩/

Straight: /streɪt/

Street: /striËt/

Tomato: /təˈmeɪ.t̬oʊ/

Traveling: /ˈtræv.əl.ɪŋ/

Soup: /suËp/

Soap: /soʊp/

Kind: /kaɪnd/

Sick: /sɪk/

Thick: /θɪk/

Etc. = Etcetera: /ɪt ˈset̬.ɚ.ə/