VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

characteristic – kar ack ter IS tick

wallpaper / desktop background

alternative – al TER na tive 
alternate – AL ter nayt

help me remind – helps remind me 

a bad temper person – a bad tempered person 

Describe a good study method you use.

You should say:
• What the method is
• Where you learned it
• Whether you think many other people use it

And explain why this method is effective for you.

the above – the aforementioned points / the points I’ve just discussed / mentioned 

all of which this method can help you to do better

Describe your favourite photograph.

You should say:
• What the photo shows
• Who took it
• Where it is kept now

And explain how you feel when you look at this photo.

this is the best ___ i have ever seen

my forever collection – the collection that I hold dear 

mee tee or = meteor 

reminiscent / reminisce 
eg. Xi Jing Ping’s presidency is reminiscent of Mao Ze Deng’s back in the early 1900’s

With the generalization of technology, cars have become increasingly common as household vehicles today. Meanwhile, problems have been arising one after another. Thanks to the skyrocketing number of cars, traffic suffers a lot in cosmopolitan cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo etc / and so on. On the other hand, it directly leads to noise pollution, smog and safety problems / hazards. While cars bring us great convenience, they also cause over-crowding in city centers, contamination and noisy. So perhaps it is time for us to seek a way which prevents the deterioration of the situation and establishes a better future in the interest of the public.
Since traffic jams have become such commonplace in Shanghai these days, government has issued bans which limit the number of cars which lack local licences on the road, giving rise to the fact that the price of local licenses remains at a high level as demands exceeds supply.

Then a law came out, which stated that each person is only able to have one local license. So basically, citizens are allowed to only have one car that can drive freely in Shanghai, which is a restriction on car ownership and use. That’s the law which has already been introduced and more will come out in the future in countless other places where traffic jams tend to be a critical / critical / serious problem, from my perspective.
Besides pollution, noise and safety problems, which involve the whole of nature as well as mankind, are also urgent for us to cope with. Hence, there is need to cry for alternative forms of transport which not only preserve nature but also decrease the risk of traffic accidents. For instance, driver-less systems have been introduced to some kinds of smart automobiles recently which are supposed to be in compliance with traffic laws more strictly, thus avoiding unexpected accidents. Furthermore, environmentally-friendly technologies such as electric-powered cars  are more popular than ever before nowadays. l firmly believe that those alternative forms of transport will play a profitable and significant role in the future of transportation / in the future transportation industry.
Conclusively, cars are essentials but we need to guide them in the correct direction, to make a better life and a better world. Considering the accelerating number of cars, it is of necessity to introduce either laws which control the car ownership and use, or alternative forms of transport.

we must guide them / we need to guide them

want to / need to / have to
should do / must do / could do / can do

the introduction of either laws is of great necessity