VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Vocabulary

formal – written / business English

casual – spoken English

grind (v)
eg. you need to grind the coffee beans before making it

ground (n)
eg. i put the coffee ground into the machine

drip coffee / filter coffee 

instant coffee – very fast / easy to make

instant noodles / 2 minute noodles – fang bian mian

oven – kao xiang

bake – kao

cook = steaming / boiling / frying / baking / heating up / deep frying

long time doesn’t do it – we haven’t done it for a long time

throw away – ren diao (threw it away – past)
eg. I threw away my oven because we never used it

I didn’t mean to be mean. Do you know what I mean?

I spend time – maybe your decision / control
it takes time – no your decision / control

Emergency Room = ER – ji zhen shi

car accident 

someone / somebody 

injury – a problem on your body / muscle

wound – shang kou
eg. he had a wound in his mouth after the surgery

must do / need to do / have to do 
needed / had 

Pronunciation

accidentally – “ack si dent lee”

current – “ku rent”

my first job is working in hospital. when i was on the duty i must work 24 hours and the whole day i do just like a dentist, and at night i worked in ji zhen shi. For example if a people was driving not carefully and he was hurt, and if his hurting was on mouth then it’s my job to do it. We must to save him and do everything to save patients. I worked at there for 8 years and they, because my teacher in US find me and we have a chat, he want me to do for him in the clinic because the clinic is more closer to my home so i think it’s good. I went to the hospital almost 1 and a half hours to get there but the new job is half an hour I can get there.

my first job was working in hospital. when i was on duty i needed to work 24 hours and the whole day my work was just like a dentist, and at night i worked in the ER. For example if someone had a car accident and he was hurt, and if his injury / problem was on their face then it’s my job to do it. We needed to save him and do everything we could to save them. I worked there / in the hospital for 8 years and then, my teacher in the US / the states found me and we had a chat, he wanted me to work for his clinic because the clinic is closer to my home so i thought it was good. I spent / it took one and a half hours to go to the hospital but now I just need half an hour to go to the clinic.