VIP Class Notes (Raph)[S][R]

Vocabulary

Budget Airline (n): 1- an airline that offers cheap flight tickets.
E.g.: Spring Airlines is China’s largest budget airline.

Host (n): 1- someone who is receiving guests,
E.g.: We thanked our hosts for a very enjoyable evening.
E.g.: The local language school is advertising for host families (= families people stay with when they are visiting another country).
E.g.: China hosted the Summer Olympics in Beijing, in 2008.

A host of: 1-  a large number of something:
E.g.: There’s a whole host of reasons why he didn’t get the job.

Long-haul (adj): 1- travelling a long distance:
E.g.: She took a long-haul flight from Beijing to London to go visit her daughter.

Kuala Lumpur (n): 1- 吉隆坡

Jakarta (n): 1-  雅加达

Osaka (n): 1- 大阪

Seoul (n): 1- 汉城

Malaysia (n): 1- 马来西亚

Q: What’s your position at the new company?
A: I’m a product planner

Singapore-Kuala Lumpur world’s busiest air route
(Source: www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1805/180506-air-routes.html)

A new report by the air-travel intelligence company OAG says Singapore to Kuala Lumpur is the world’s busiest international air route. From March 2017 to the end of February 2018, exactly 30,537 flights flew between Singapore and KL. There was an average of 84 flights every day – that’s one flight every 17 minutes or so. The route is covered by Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and a host of budget airlines. The flight time between Singapore and KL is just under an hour. Asia has the top seven busiest international air routes, with Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Osaka seeing the busiest traffic. New York LaGuardia to Toronto, and Dubai to Kuwait were the busiest non-Asian routes.

OAG provided more statistics on how busy the skies were in the year to February 2018. The busiest route if you count the number of passengers was Hong Kong to Taipei. More than 6.5 million passengers flew between these two cities. Singapore-Jakarta was second, with 4.7 million; followed by Singapore-KL, with just over 4 million passengers. OAG also reported on the busiest domestic routes. The world’s busiest domestic air route is between Seoul and the South Korean island of Jeju. In 2017, 65,000 flights covered the route, with almost 180 flights per day – one every seven-and-a-half minutes. The only long-haul route in the top-20 list is New York JFK to London Heathrow, which has around 38 daily flights.

Original:

Yesterday I went to a bar with my friend and I only choose orange juice, so when I send the picture to my moments and told my friend I just choose orange juice, some friend laughed at me. They think I shouldn’t drink juicy at a bar, I should choose some wine to drink. And then a friend of mine bought a new phone, so we started to take photos. We tried many ways to take photos. We thought about the nights the direction and the post. We were laughing and laughing all the time.

Edited:

Yesterday I went to a bar with my friend and I only drank/ordered orange juice. When I posted the picture on my WeChat Moments and told my friends about it, some of them laughed at me. They think I shouldn’t drink juice at a bar, and I that should have ordered some alcohol/alcoholic drink. My friend who was with me at the bar had just bought a new phone, so we took many photos in many many different ways. We wanted to take some nice photos, so we paid a lot of attention to the lighting and the pose, always thinking about the WeChat post. We were laughing and laughing all the time.

Grammar

I have not do reading for long time. – I have not done any reading for a long time.

Pronunciation

Full: /fʊl/

Decision: /dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/

Maternity: /məˈtɝː.nə.t̬i/

Child: /tʃaɪld/

Aisle: /aɪl/

Shampoo: /ʃæmˈpuː/

Occupied: /ˈɑː.kjə.paɪd/

Collectivism: /kəˈlek.tɪ.vɪ.zəm/

Busiest: /ˈbɪz.i.əst/

Route: /ruːt/ /raʊt/

Malaysia: /məˈleɪ.ʒə/

Tokyo: /ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ/

Statistics: /stəˈtɪs·tɪks/

Boat: /boʊt/

Bought: /bɑːt/