VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

Vocabulary

divorce – break up marriage

branch (v.) – to go to different directions
branch out …. – to go into a different ….

branch (n.) – a part of a tree

sink – xi shou chi

lavender – xun yi cao

utensils – can ju, things we use to eat

reality tv – 综艺节目

reputation – how people perceive you, what people think of you

detective – tui li

magazine – za zhi

billionaire – people who have billions

index – list

previous – the last one

retail – ling shou

giant – huge

wealth – the amount of money

vaccine – shots to prevent illness

manufacturer – producer

pharmacy – yao dian

smooth – shun li

challenge – tiao zhan

A businessman who sells bottled water is now the richest man in China. The business magazine Bloomberg named Mr Zhong Shanshan as China’s richest man in its latest Billionaires Index. The magazine said Mr Zhong is worth over $58 billion. This makes him $2 billion richer than the previous number one, Jack Ma. Mr Ma founded the retail Internet giant Alibaba. Mr Zhong made his wealth from his Nongfu Spring bottled water company. He then branched out into making vaccines. He is the chairman of a vaccine manufacturer called the Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy. Mr Zhong is now 17th on the global rich list. It seems that he will move up that list in the future.

Our department apartment is in Pudong. It’s 99 square-meter. I wonder think it’s enough to live for my husband and I. We have 2 bedrooms, a kitchen room, a bathroom, and 2 living rooms.

The living rooms’ wall is purple. And the 2 bedrooms’ walls are pink. It looks very warm.

I want to change the sink. It’s inconvenient. The water always flow in the floor.spill out and fall to the floor.  And I don’t like the kitchen. The kitchen room‘s sink is in inconvenient because it is separated into two parts. The small part of this isn’t useful. We just use the big one, but the big one cannot fit a pan.

My dream house is near my company. I just want to be near my company so I can save a lot of money/time. I want to have some special rooms. A room for gym , a room for reading, and I want to have a room for a dog. I am allergic to of dog. A room for majiang.

We always take her to some children’s playground and some park, zoo. I My favorite is in-room in-door children playground because it’s very safe. She can found find some friends to play with her and I just stay at the cafe, have my afternoon tea and play on my phone.

Grammar

You don’t like dogs, do you?
yes -> yes, I do
no -> no, I don’t

Don’t you want to play with me?
yes I want to play with you
no I don’t want to play with you

You like coffee, don’t you?
yes I like coffee
no I don’t

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