VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

When he drinks some alcohol after drinking he will throw up / vomit.
I have the holiday, I tool a holiday from around the 5 days and with the week end it is around 9 days and went to Hainan Sanya. It is a warm place and travel a lot of friends but with my mother and father their didn’t want to like play some swimming or go to some mountains so most there is go to some very gentle such as temples

It is famous in sea side cities such as Thailand.

I asked some people want to learn Chinese, he said no reason, It is funny because they have the school in Sanya.
I asked him about the result and he said most people is give up because it is too hard and they want to enjoy the swimming pool.
Actually in China we have English teacher called Liyang, he is a famous teacher and he created one way to speak it 1990.
At that time not many people speak English and he said you just speak to and sometimes they are in the station and shout.

I can see a lot of people join the class in that time.
At the moment we have a lot of outside website and connect to the outside world so we can know more native English speaking but at that time we can’t so he is quite famous.

if you touch her feet it will bring you luck

a lot of tradition of older people go to the temple and it is very important because if they are the first to burn incense they will be lucky for the whole year.

If I don’t like this one but after 1-2 months the people will be fired.

because they are not good and show the not good so maybe something wrong.

some people post their monthly horoscope

When my company moved to a new building we faced a lot of trouble because in traditional fengshui people means money and at that time we lack people.
If you live in a big house and it is empty it will cost you, you’d better let people in the house, don’t let your house empty.

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When he drinks some alcohol after drinking he will throw up / vomit.
I had a holiday, I took a holiday of around/about 5 days and with the week end it was around 9 days in total and we went to Hainan Sanya.
It is a warm place and we didn’t travel  with friends but with my mother and father/parents.  They didn’t want to go swimming  / they were not interested in swimming. or go to some mountains / go hiking so we mostly went to places old people like such as temples
we went to some very relaxing places such as temples

It is famous in sea side cities  / coastal cities such as Phuket.

I asked why some people want to learn Chinese, he said no reason, It is funny because they have a school in Sanya. / they set up a school in Sanya /language center
I asked him if it worked/if it was effective and he said most people give up because it is too hard and they want to enjoy the swimming pool.
Actually in China we have an/one English teacher called Liyang, he is a famous teacher and he created one way to speak in 1990. / he had a method called crazy English.
At that time not many people spoke English and he said you just speak to and sometimes they went to the station and shouted.

I could see a lot of people join the class at that time / back then.

At that time we were not as connected to the rest of the world as today. It was hard to have a native teacher and we didn’t have a lot of foreign website so he became popular.

if you touch the feet of the statue it will bring you luck

a lot of tradition of older people go to the temple and it is very important because if they are the first to burn incense they will be lucky for the whole year.

When my company moved to a new building we faced a lot of trouble because in traditional fengshui people means money and at that time we lacked people / we didn’t have enough people.
If you live in a big house and it is empty it will cost you, you’d better let people in the house, don’t let your house empty.

Vocabulary

ritual (n)程式/惯例
We have a ritual to make the house a good place to live
I always have a coffee in the morning, it is part of my morning ritual

fortune teller (n) someone who predicts your future
The fortune teller told me I would get married next year

fortune (n) 运气
we pray at the temple for fortune

horoscope （n) forecast of what will happen to you
I read the horoscope for Aquarius and it seems I will be lucky next month

curse (n/v)咒语 / 骂人
I think I am cursed, I always have bad luck
He often curses while driving

zodiac (n)黄道
some people believe in the Chinese zodiac and some believe in the western zodiac

zodiac sign (n)
My zodiac sign is tiger

lucky (adj)
I am not lucky

luck (n)
I have bad luck

dialect (n)方言
I don’t speak the local dialect

coastal (adj)
Sanya is a coastal city

coast (n) 海岸
He has a holiday house on the coast

incense (n) 上香
We burn some incense and pray at the temple

south China sea南海
There is a temple facing the south China sea

jade (n)玉
jade is popular in China

statue （n) 雕像
there is a statue of Guanyin facing the south China sea

scenic/tourist spot (n) 景点
One of the most popular tourist spots in Shanghai is Jing an temple

jet ski (n) 喷气式滑艇
Young people like to ride jet skis

Pronunciation

dialect

Aquarius (n) 水瓶座

hike