F2F Class Notes 18th January (Jesse)

the island – great movie
intersteller – space movie
fools gold – great movie

Vocabulary

gang – hei bang
eg. he in a gang / he’s a gang member

it’s a feel good movie

it didn’t really grab me 

brothel – a place for prostitutes

sex workers / prostitute / call girl 

their friends set them up together / i will set you up with one of my friends

in the last 12 months

he cleaned up his life = not a criminal
he’s been clean = not on drugs

confiscate – to take away temporarily (police / authorities)
eg. they confiscated his car and his drivers licence

fine him / give him a fine

catch / caught him – as a policeman, to see the do it and know the truth
eg. they caught him red handed, so he ran away

vigilante – lao pao / someone who does the police’s work because they don’t trust them

the film is set in the 1940’s

large part / big chunk
eg. they took a big chunk of the money

“they did the wrong thing for the right reason”

Grammar

i watched it in last week – i watched it last week

for 3 times – 3 times 

by that time (before / at a time)

at that time – just at a time