VIP Class Notes (Jesse)[S]

Also: review the pronunciation I sent on wechat: why, way, weee. Focus on your mouth movement.

Correct the speaking from today.

Vocabulary

what do you do? – what is your job?

what did you do at university? – subject at university / major

exercise (v) – jian shen
do exercise – jian shen

practice (v) – lian xi
do practice – lian xi

I do some English exercises = test / homework etc

type / kind – zhong lei
eg what type of car do you have? I have a Mazda

chief accountant – main accountant
eg. I want to be a chief accountant in the future

I used to be a cashier / I was a cashier before 

a few accountants have CPA – countable – “yi xie”
a part of sth – a small bit of one whole thing
a little sth – non-countable “yi xie”

carbs / carbohydrates – tan shui
eg. I eat some carbs every day

thin / slim
eg. you can stay slim if you eat lots of vegetables

technique (learn the way to do sth) / technology (science)
eg. Jesse’s writing technique is very bad! Technology has changed a lot in the last 20 years.

meal – breakfast / lunch / dinner – a time that you eat some food / an amount of food that you eat
dish – fan qie chao dan / hong shao rou / ke le ji chi / Satay Chicken

Grammar

at October – in October 

at – point
on – top / touching
in – month / year / period
with – together
for – help / reason (noun)
to – arrive / distance / reason (verb)

I talk at you
I talk to you
I talk with you

watch sth
look at sth
listen to sth

Pronunciation

fun – fun

find – fiiieeeend

count

we – eeee
way – aaaaeeee

bold words I helped with

my mother don’t like me to learn cooking because she doesn’t want me to cook. my mother and my brother cooked when I was young. My mother cooking for the breakfast and my brother cooking for dinner. In the breakfast we always have some soup and vegetables because in the morning we don’t need too much food so the breakfast is simple. The reason my mother cooked breakfast is that we stay in bed all the time and my mother get up early. In the evening my brother has time to cook and his cooking technique is great. I like the eggplant dishes that he cooked.

uncorrected 

my mother don’t like me to learn cooking because she doesn’t want me to cook. my mother and my brother cooked when I was young. My mother cooking for the breakfast and my brother cooking for dinner. In the breakfast we always have some soup and vegetables because in the morning we don’t need too much food so the breakfast is simple. The reason my mother cooked breakfast is that we stay in bed all the time and my mother get up early. In the evening my brother has time to cook and his cooking technique is great. I like the eggplant dishes that he cooked.