VIP Class Notes (Jesse)
Vocabulary
mulled wine – gluvine – hot wine with spices
Christmas eve – 24th – drinks & christmas feeling
Christmas day – 25th – presents & lunch
Boxing day – 26th – clean up & shop
flushed – face goes red
eg. I get flushed when I drink alcohol
build up my tolerance – drink more often so you can drink more each time
eg. I need to build up my tolerance because right now it’s too low
I take after my mother – my DNA / habits follow my mum
eg. I take after my mother in that I am also not a good drinker
the more he drinks the whiter he gets
her hearing is really bad
eg. as she gets older her hearing gets worse
Chinese spirits – bai jiu
high alcoholic content / percentage / concentration
keg – a wooden barrel of alcohol
neat – no ice, nothing else, just the alcohol
eg. can I get a whiskey, neat?
I’ll have a whiskey on ice / on the rocks
hospitable / hospitality
eg. wow such great hospitality
eg2. they’re really hospitable people
in the north of China – inside China’s north area
North of China – outside China to the north
eg. Russia is north of China and Europe is west of China
Pronunciation
koala – koe war la
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