VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Describe your favourite room in your apartment – why is it your favourite? What kind of furniture etc is in there and how did you get it? – try to make it simple but vivid so someone can imagine it.

Vocabulary

the entry point between the esophagus and the stomach

the food passed through the esophagus and through the entry point to the stomach which is called the cardia and finally into the stomach to be digested which lasts between 1 to 2 hours.

alkaline – high PH < > acid / acidic – low PH

a thick liquid that is not quite solid or liquid like a thick paste 

appendicitis (n)

more surface area / it has a greater surface

absorbent (adj)
eg. the small intestine is more absorbent than the large

extract – to pull sth / take sth out of sth else
eg. the small intestines extract the nutrients from the digested food

condition / disease

it is only need about 10 minutes to walk to the station – it takes about 10 minutes to walk to the station

which – use this in place of “it” to make sentences longer and describe the object

public transport – gong gong jiao tong

apartment complex – xiao qu

recently = near past time
eg. recently I have been very busy
these days = past and now continuing
eg. I am very busy these days / I am working as a dr these days

Pronunciation

PH – pee yaych

Make a difficult decision
I need to make an important decision recently: To be a doctor or to quit being a doctor? I am now a physician in Shanghai, but I will immigrate to America to live with my husband one year later. In the United States, I can go to the laboratory to do some science research, but cannot be a physician, unless I could complete the United States Medical Licensing Examination. To my opinion, trying my best to complete the test or just trying to find a lab job is a difficult decision. If I choose to complete the exam, I will need to devote a whole year and may end up not passing the exam, or will have to go back to work in the lab. It’s a difficult choice for me to invest in this year.

Make a difficult decision
I have been trying to make an important decision recently: To be a doctor or to quit being a doctor? I am now a physician in Shanghai, but I will immigrate to America to live with my husband one year later. In the United States, I can go to a laboratory to do some scientific research, but cannot be a physician, unless I can complete the United States Medical Licensing Examination. In my opinion, trying my best to complete the test or just trying to find a lab job is a difficult decision. If I choose to complete the exam, I will need to devote a whole year and may end up not passing the exam, or will have to go back to work in a lab. It’s a difficult choice for me to invest my time in this year.