VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

interest – the money that you pay / receive on top of the main amount
eg. I put 100 RMB in the bank and the bank paid me 3% interest over the year

pension – the money you get when you retire
eg. my grandma receives a pension from the government

fine – money you pay for doing sth wrong
bail – money you pay to get temporarily released from jail

superannuation – pension fund

intermittent fasting 

toxify < > detoxify

contaminate – to deliberately make sth polluted
eg. the factory contaminated the lake

debris – the remnants of a destroyed thing – “de bree”

when will you give birth / when is the due date? / when is the baby due?

consequence – repercussion – ramification

it’s been great getting to know you / it’s great knowing you / it’s great having you in my life

configuration

“nothing in life worth doing is ever easy”

activate – ji huo

speaking of this… – that reminds me of…

lecturer – the speaker / teacher

he’s from Holland / he’s dutch / he’s from the Netherlands

heaps / tons / a lot

Grammar

she invited me to go to this lecture

it’s not many people to do that with them – not many people do that with them / it is not common for many people to do that with them 

i thought it would be the same consequence – result / it would have the same consequence