VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Write about one of your hobbies. Tell me when you started doing it. Why. How long you have done it for. Did you stop? Why? If not, how has it changed since you started? Give examples of times you’ve done it.

Several days ago i went to Beijing to join a friend’s wedding. This is the first time I went to a chinese traditional wedding. There was a big variety and rituals and as a brides maid I needed to help the newly weds to finish the ritual. I think it’s too hard to me so I feel nervous. There was some ritual like that I needed to send the stick to the groom and show the red dates and another nuts to the couple, and so on. Cause Chinese traditional wedding is serious than western wedding. There was many rules you need to do so I feel pressure but at the end we finished all the rules perfectly. What a nice wedding.

Several days ago i went to Beijing to join / go to / attend a friend’s wedding. This is the first time I have been to a chinese traditional wedding and it was held in the middle space of a traditional style Beijing housing complex. There was a big variety of rituals and as a bridesmaid I needed to help the newly weds to complete the ceremony. I thought it was too hard for me so I felt / was nervous. There were some rituals that / which I needed to pass / give / hand the stick to the groom, show the red dates and other nuts to the couple, and so on. Cause Chinese traditional weddings are more serious than western weddings. There were many rules you need to follow so I felt pressure but in the end we finished the whole ceremony / everything perfectly. What a nice wedding!

Grammar

at national holiday – during the national holiday 

There were so many rules to follow that it made me feel really nervous
There were so many rules that I couldn’t even remember one.
I was so nervous that I couldn’t think clearly.

I give it to you
I go to work

Vocabulary

discipline – when a teacher / parents makes kids follow rules or punishes them
eg. parents should discipline their kids to make sure they are well behaved

marriage celebrant 
eg. the marriage celebrant marries the couple

western country – in the west 

karaoke – KTV

newly weds 

at the end = the last period of time
in the end = finally / the result
eg. At the end of the class you should review
eg2. You thought you wouldn’t improve, but in the end, you did.

follow rules
eg. teachers set rules that students must follow 

other / another / the other / others / the others 
eg. other food is good
eg2. i will give you another cup of coffee
eg3. the other coffee is better
eg4. this good is good but others are better
eg5. this is good but the others are better

people / one more person / the person / people / the people

finish – maybe just stop / maybe 100%

complete – always get to 100%

lift the veil 

Pronunciation

specific – “speh sif ick”

variety – “va reye eh tee”

brides maid – “br eye dz maeed”