VIP Class Notes (Tony) [W]

Vocabulary

Stroke – a mark made by hand or writing, usually one line

eg: When you write Chinese characters the stroke order is important.

Tone – the sound made when speaking

eg: In English if you use a rising tone, like the 2nd tone in Chinese. It sounds like you’re asking a question.

eg: My mom said, “don’t use that tone with me young man.”

kick off – 1. in American football, at the very beginning to start the game. when the team kicks the ball all the way across the field and the other team catches it.

eg: We need to kick off this new project successfully, or I’m fired. If I have a bad start to this project, I will be fired for sure.

dive in – jump into a situation, and get completely involved in it.

eg: We dove in to a bad situation. Because we couldn’t find the solution yet.

I wouldn’t hold your breath – don’t wait for this to happen, because it never will.

eg: I’m waiting for a taxi.

Well, I wouldn’t hold your breath. It’s raining now, there’s no way you will get a taxi.

immigrant – a person, who moves to a country forever. maybe takes their family with them

eg: America has more immigrants, and china has more expats.

Every year my university organizes some Exchange Student programs. I joined it once when I was in the first year of my university. There were many different universities that we could choose. After we made the decision, we needed to hand many files and passed some exams. Once all preparation done, they started to choose students. Roughly they would choose the top 3 students for each university. However they changed the rules at that time due to the fact that too many students wanted to go to the same university.

Every year my university organizes some Exchange Student programs. I joined once when I was in the first year of my university. There were many different universities that we could choose. After we made the decision, we needed to hand in/submit many files and pass some exams. Once all preparations were done, they started to choose students. Roughly they would choose the top 3 students for each university. However they changed the rules at that time due to the fact that too many students wanted to go to the same university.

Grammar

With

I will go with you.

Together

We will go together.