VIP Class Notes 22nd April (Jesse)

Homework

Use the vocabulary from today in some writing about dealing with stress from your job.

Vocabulary

how to say / how do you say – what is it? / what’s that word…? / what’s the word for…?

paper work – only used for printed paper

business – anything that makes the company money
eg. I got the company a lot of new business this year

let me / make me

meditation
eg. do some meditation

therapy (n) / therapeutic (adj)
eg. making coffee can be therapeutic = making coffee can relax me and help me to deal with my problems

on my way here 

passage / paragraph 

subjective < > objective 

what do you feel like doing? / what do you want to do? 

it’s a simple worka simple job / it is simple work

he want to – he wants to

theater
eg. after class I’m going to a theater to see a play

bootcamp – the app on OSX used to install windows

agree you – agree with you 

kept dying 

I keep learning English – I often learn English and haven’t stopped
I keep going to the cafe – I often do it and haven’t stopped
my phone keeps dying – kept dying

crash / freeze / break / die
crash = stop and restart
freeze = stop for a moment
break = physically has a problem
die = battery too low / totally can’t use it

Reading

“Nothing justified further investigations by my office.”

Questions, asked by students, are good.

There was nothing asked by students

There was nothing that justified further investigations to be made by my office.

A note defending so-called Islamic State was found near his body.
there was a note, which was defending so-called IS, that was found near his body